Java Staff Software Developer IV

As a Staff Software Developer, you are a senior individual contributor who combines strong hands-on skills with the ability to influence across teams, reduce ambiguity, and scale solutions beyond a single codebase. You shape architecture and standards, act as a technical leader through design reviews and RFCs, and mentor senior and junior engineers alike.

Location: This is a fully remote position located in Colombia.

Contact

Maira Russo - Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core contributor on the platform, with direct impact on the value Caseware delivers to customers and distribution partners globally.
• Own key features and architectural improvements end-to-end - from design through build - using modern, leading-edge technology and architecture.
• Collaborate with a team of deep technical experience and strong domain knowledge; brainstorm and share ideas.
• Take initiative on complex, business-critical challenges such as third-party extensibility and real-time multi-user synchronization.
• Define and evolve technical architecture, establishing standards that support safe, scalable, and reusable capabilities across teams.
• Act as a technical leader across teams, influencing architectural decisions through design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on collaboration.
• Lead proof-of-concepts that inform roadmap and architectural decisions.
• Partner with QA, Product, Security, and Domain SMEs to ensure robust observability, reliability, and quality of the systems you own.
• Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices to improve consistency, security, and maintainability.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying systemic risks and eliminating root causes that impact reliability, performance, or cost.
• Partner with DevOps and Security teams to evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and production safeguards.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance.
• Participate in production support as a senior escalation point, leading root cause analysis and driving preventative improvements.

AI-Augmented Development Expectations

• Champion effective, responsible use of AI-assisted development tools across multiple teams.

• Define standards and guardrails for how AI-assisted and agentic tooling is used across the SDLC, balancing velocity with correctness, security, and maintainability.

• Evaluate and pilot new AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows; make recommendations on adoption at scale.

• Mentor senior and junior engineers on advanced AI-assisted development practices.

• Own feedback loops and metrics that measure the impact of AI-assisted development on velocity and quality across teams.

Qualifications

• In-depth, extensive experience with server-side Java - viewed as a subject matter expert on all things Java.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience with core Java.
• Experience working with both monolith applications and microservices.
• Good experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB.
• Experience working in an agile team with other developers, testers, and a product owner.
• Proven experience designing and evolving shared platforms or infrastructure used by multiple teams.
• Experience delivering cloud-native systems on AWS, with familiarity around scalability, reliability, security, and cost management.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and the ability to balance delivery speed with long-term platform health.
• Proven experience contributing to, and taking ownership of, important architectural decisions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and product quality.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, Google Cloud).

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.

Tech Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: Java

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Secrets Manager, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, EKS, etc.), CloudFormation, Terraform

• Data: SQL Server, AWS RDS SQL Server

• Testing & Observability: New Relic, AWS CloudWatch

• Tooling: Jira, Visual Studio, GitHub, Devin, Claude Code

Perks & Benefits

• ¨Contrato a termino Indefinido¨ with all the legal benefits
• Prepaid Medicine
• Life insurance and funeral assistance
• Internet allowance
• Home office stipend
• Competitive compensation - above the market average
• 100% remote work environment and an excellent work-life balance
• 5 Personal Time Off days per year
• Sick Leave Top up to total 100% of salary paid by the employer from Day 3 to 90.
• Recognition Award, additional paid time off in recognition of the corresponding year of service
• Upgrade vacation starting at 5 years of service
• Opportunity to work for a growing global SaaS leader company
• A culture that promotes independence, innovation, trust, and accountability
• Open space to be creative, innovative and strategize for the future
• Mentorship by highly experienced professional
• Budget for training, we want you to grow
• AI-first environment: Be part of an AI-first engineering organization that embraces modern tools, automation, and AI-driven ways of working.