Principal Backend Engineer (Java and Golang)
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Location: Latin America - Remote; the position is fully remote in LATAM, Availability for meaningful overlap with European working hours (CET).ContractPrincipal
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent written and spoken English (C1+); Advanced English Level is required for this role.
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Required Skills
- JavaGoCI/CDDistributed Systems
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+); advanced English is required for work with US clients.
- 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).
Responsibilities
- 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 before work is marked complete.
- Conduct timely code reviews and help keep review cycles moving across time zones.
- Work 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 before development begins.
- Mentor engineers, unblock the team, and provide technical and business context.
- Communicate asynchronously through written updates, design documents, and decision records for a team 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 this and other accounts through Nortal's Technical Interviewer Program.
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