Senior Backend Engineer
What is Cobre and what do we do?
Cobre is Latin America’s leading instant b2b payments platform. We solve the region’s most complex money movement challenges by building advanced financial infrastructure that enables companies to move money faster, safer, and more efficiently.We enable instant business payments—local or international, direct or via API—all from a single platform.
Built for fintechs, PSPs, banks, and finance teams that demand speed, control, and efficiency. From real-time payments to automated treasury, we turn complex financial processes into simple experiences.
Cobre is the first platform in Colombia to enable companies to pay both banked and unbanked beneficiaries within the same payment cycle and through a single interface.
We are building the enterprise payments infrastructure of Latin America!
What we are looking for:
As a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to design, coding, testing, and implementation.
What would you be doing:
Analyze, develop, test, and write code necessary to adapt to business requirements.
Analyze and resolve platform issues by identifying the root causes and their effects on hardware, network, service operations, and overall quality.
Define, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability strategies (metrics, logging, alerting) to ensure system health and performance.
Review code developed by other engineers, providing feedback to ensure adherence to the best practices.
Collaborate across teams on product, security, architecture, and performance to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Ability to code/develop and build/deploy the necessary solution within our existing environments, identifying and managing delivery risks, proactively removing blockers, promoting continuous delivery practices.
Actively participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide the best solution, ensuring scalability and resiliency.
Be a mentor to your team members.
Drive the delivery process, coordinating deployments, validating readiness, and ensuring alignment with delivery timelines and business goals.
Managed task planning.
What do you need:
5+ years of experience proficiently writing code in Java Spring Boot, and 2+ with Python (additional programming languages are a plus).
3+ years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices applications (deployment over AWS environments is preferred).
2+ years of experience with software design and architecture.
Direct experience working on highly concurrent processing platforms, ideally in the payment industry (processors, PSPs, processing gateways, Exchanges, etc).
Understanding of DevOps best practices, IaC, and cloud-first software development
Experience in CI/CD concept, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
Experience working with complex real-time distributed systems
Strong oral and written communication skills.
If you are looking for a role that combines technical depth, architectural impact, and real-world financial complexity, this is an opportunity that will both challenge and excite you.
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