Principal Backend Engineer, Java, Golang

🔥 18 hours ago

💃 Latin America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Nortal

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Nortal is a strategic partner specializing in transformation services for governments, healthcare institutions, and businesses. With over 25 years of experience, Nortal employs a unique seamless methodology to deliver world-class digital solutions that enhance efficiency and user experiences. They focus on tackling complex challenges across various industries, including public sector, healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications, ensuring that clients can successfully navigate the demands of a rapidly evolving economic landscape.

📋 Description

• Build compliance and traffic-monitoring systems for a cross-border payments platform • Lead architecture decisions and design reviews, documenting trade-offs and technical decisions • Set and uphold quality practices, including testing strategy, Definition of Done, and verification • Conduct timely code reviews across time zones • Develop hands-on in Java and Go on complex, critical backend systems • Turn ambiguous requirements into clear scope and acceptance criteria with product and engineering management • Mentor engineers, unblock the team, and provide technical and business context • Communicate asynchronously through written updates, design documents, and decision records across LATAM and Europe • Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude or Cursor while maintaining code review, testing, and human oversight standards • Conduct technical interviews for Nortal accounts through the Technical Interviewer Program

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field • 8+ years of software engineering experience • Strong production experience with both Java and Go • Experience designing event-driven, high-volume distributed systems, including queues, streaming, or transaction processing • Track record of improving engineering quality through testing practices, CI/CD, and code review • Excellent written and spoken English (C1+) • Strong asynchronous communication skills and comfort writing technical documentation • Autonomy in defining scope, estimates, and priorities • Availability for meaningful overlap with European working hours (CET) • Advanced English level required; role involves working with US clients

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive USD salary • 100% remote work; work from anywhere with access to coworking spaces across LATAM • Paid time off and national holidays according to the applicable country’s regulations, with full salary • Sick leave • Annual credit for work-life-balance perks • Team-building activities, coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings • Birthday week day off • Wellness check-ins and professional growth support from the People Care team • Flexible work model focused on outcomes and personal well-being

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