Colombia Medellin Hybrid **Lead Back End Engineer (Java/NodeJS)**: This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to our senior engineers and technical leads. The role involves defining and refining our organizational architecture, processes, and best practices. **Requirements**: - Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems. Having a focus on **Java or Kotlin** for backend development is more important. Node.js can also be learned later on. - Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS). - You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes. - You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions. - You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. You have often become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area. - You have delivered large-scale backend systems, including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, and managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures. - English - **B2/C1**. **Responsibilities**: - Define forward-looking architectures through the creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy-in from key technical, product, and business stakeholders. - Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization, in conjunction with technical leads. - Coach and mentor senior-level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency, and technical capability. - Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance, and require less human intervention - Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise - Raise the bar of our team’s standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher-quality code. - Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable. - Speak up and advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental. We offer: **Well-being**: - 10 working days of Paid Day Off within an individual year. - Up to 15 working days of Unpaid days off within an individual year. **Professional Growth**: - Sombra University courses - enjoy a range of learning opportunities through Sombra University. It offers many educational courses, as well as educational lectures on a variety of topics. - Sombra Around Tech - community attendance - Sombra unites engineers and experts in several areas: Front-end, Back-end, QA, DevOps, and Вusiness Analysis. - Mentorship program - available on request. - UDEMY online course platform - stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and programming languages. - English courses and Speaking Club - attend English classes twice a week in small groups. **Added advantages**: - Work equipment (Laptop, monitor, and small devices compensation). - Sombra’s referral program. - If you know someone you believe is a good fit for our cooperation, you can recommend them and get a reward. - Public Holidays - celebrate 18 statutory holidays in Colombia. - Sombra events - Join Sombra’s traditional events (both online and offline). **Ruslana**Murha**: Recruiter