Principal Backend Architect

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🔥 33 minutes ago

💃 Latin America – Remote

💵 $45 - $50 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Latino Legends

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2025

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

Recruitment • HR Tech

Latino Legends is a recruitment platform and talent marketplace focused on connecting Latin American professionals with remote job opportunities worldwide. The company operates a candidate portal that offers transparent application tracking, profile management, and real-time notifications, and it supports employers by sourcing and placing Latin American talent across a range of remote roles and industries. Latino Legends emphasizes showcasing Latin American skills and helping candidates access global opportunities while managing the hiring process for employers.

📋 Description

• Own backend architecture across the platform and lead incremental decomposition of a large monolith into maintainable services • Establish backend engineering standards, best practices, tooling, shared libraries, service templates, and platform capabilities • Lead API and contract design, including versioning and backward compatibility • Own event-driven architecture using Azure Service Bus, including delivery guarantees, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery • Define scalable customer and partner integration patterns • Collaborate with the Data Architect on data ownership, transactional boundaries, access patterns, and query performance • Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and cloud cost efficiency • Champion AI-assisted engineering practices and adoption of AI tools and workflows • Mentor engineers, review critical pull requests, facilitate technical office hours, and document architectural decisions through ADRs • Contribute to incident response, technical interviews, quarterly planning, and occasional customer-facing technical discussions • Work with the Lead/Principal Architect, Principal UI Architect, and Data Architect to drive technical direction

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including several years in architecture or technical leadership roles at the principal level • Deep, hands-on expertise in C# and .NET • Experience with Azure services, particularly Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Data Factory • Experience with PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Snowflake, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices • Experience incrementally decomposing large monolithic systems • Strong understanding of event-driven and asynchronous architectures, including message ordering, idempotency, poison messages, retries, and dead-letter queues • Extensive experience with API design, service contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility • Strong data-access fundamentals, including query optimization, zero-downtime migrations, and handling inconsistent or complex customer data • Proven production ownership, including observability, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis • Daily, hands-on use of AI development tools such as Claude, Claude Code, or comparable agentic engineering tools • Practical experience building AI-powered solutions involving agents, reusable skills, MCP servers, or evaluations • Excellent written and spoken English • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to provide concrete examples of personally owned architectural decisions, trade-offs, and measurable outcomes • Pragmatic engineering mindset and strong judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Company hardware will be shipped to the selected candidate • Full-time remote independent contractor engagement • Working on local holidays may be possible by prior arrangement