Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff)
Core
Shape architecture, engineering standards, and technical strategy across complex product and platform initiatives while remaining hands-on with production coding.
Role type
Staff individual contributor (backend/frontend)
Builds
Scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems, APIs, and shared platforms for financial applications and payments. (via careerplan.io/jobs/b1e0b3f3-2bb7-457e-9683-584bdc24b186-staff-engineer-ingeniero-staff-at-jobgether)
Domain
Financial technology / Payments / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
System design, Microservices, Scalability, Security, Observability, CI/CD, Mentorship, Technical strategy, Incident response, Full-stack reasoning
Preferred skills
Financial applications experience, Platform engineering, AI-assisted workflows, AWS EKS/RDS/MSK, Application security
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, React, TypeScript, GitHub Actions
Responsibilities
Lead cross-team architecture and system design; Define and promote engineering standards; Write meaningful production code and participate in technical reviews; Drive technical strategy and trade-offs; Create technical design documents and RFCs; Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers; Lead high-severity incident response; Design systems for high availability and scalability; Collaborate with stakeholders on feasibility and roadmap alignment.
Seniority
Staff, organization-wide influence