2 days ago
Remote, AmericasStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture decisions and design reviews while documenting technical trade-offs and decisions.
- Establish and uphold quality practices, including testing strategy, Definition of Done, and verification standards.
- Conduct code reviews and help maintain efficient review cycles across time zones.
- Develop complex, critical backend systems hands-on using Java and Go.
- Clarify ambiguous requirements into scope and acceptance criteria with product and engineering management.
- Mentor engineers, unblock the team, and provide technical and business context.
- Communicate asynchronously through written updates, design documents, and decision records.
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Cursor with code review, testing, and human oversight.
- Conduct technical interviews through Nortal’s Technical Interviewer Program.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong production experience with both Java and Go.
- Experience designing event-driven, high-volume distributed systems involving queues, streaming, or transaction processing.
- Experience improving engineering quality through testing practices, CI/CD, and code review.
- Excellent written and spoken English at C1+ or advanced level.
- Strong asynchronous communication and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to define scope, estimates, and priorities autonomously.
- Availability for meaningful overlap with European working hours in CET.
- Comfort working with US clients and communicating effectively in English.
Benefits
- Competitive USD salary.
- 100% remote work from anywhere in LATAM, with access to coworking spaces across the region.
- Paid time off and national holidays according to the employee’s country regulations.
- Sick leave with full salary.
- Annual credit for selected perks.
- Team-building activities, tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and after-work gatherings.
- Birthday week day off.
- Full-time, long-term staffing engagement with two openings and a target December 2026 start date, to be confirmed.
About Nortal
Nortal is a privately held IT services company that designs and delivers large-scale digital transformation for governments, healthcare organizations, and enterprises. It provides consulting, custom software development, cloud and data platforms, identity solutions, and industrial/MES and supply-chain systems, typically via end‑to‑end projects and managed services. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, it operates across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.