Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Remote - LATAM (only)

$30 USD Hourly

Contract Type: Contractor

please note: This is a contract position and does not include employee benefits.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance applications primarily using Python (FastAPI) and/or TypeScript/NextJS/NodeJS for the backends and React/TypeScript/NextJS for the frontends.

• Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers and frontend engineers, and product managers to build cohesive and user-centric experiences.

• Use a systems thinking approach to design and implement cost effective solutions that ensure data security, system reliability, and high availability.

• Promote best practices including observability, error handling, and performance optimization.

• Contribute actively to technical design, strategy, innovation, and continuous improvement of our technology stack and processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience developing software products in a professional environment.

• Proven ability to design and build scalable, secure, and performant systems.

• Experience designing solutions using cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred),

including serverless architectures (including, for example, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3).

• Critical thinking, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Pragmatic approach to software development with an understanding of when to apply object-oriented, functional, data-oriented, or imperative programming paradigms.

• Experience building low latency interactive experiences

• A fundamental knowledge of basic computer science.

• A systems approach to problem solving

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree or formal training in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

(practical experience highly valued).

• Experience with web development frameworks like React and NextJS.

• Experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI.

• Exposure to frontend frameworks like React.

• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and modern DevOps practices.

• Exposure to SQL and No-SQL databases

• Awareness of modern vector databases or data stores (e.g., Qdrant, Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB).

• Ability to maintain system observability, monitoring, and detect drift or degradation of performance.