Software Engineering, Technical Referent
dlocal
Municipality of Madrid, Spain
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Municipality of Madrid, Spain
Tech stack
Java
Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Application Frameworks
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Software Quality
Amazon DynamoDB
Github
Octopus Deploy
Software Deployment
Software Engineering
Software Security
Technical Debt
Backend
Event Driven Architecture
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Containerization
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kafka
Functional Programming
Api Gateway
REST
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins
Go
Microservices
Job description
- Framework Ownership: Set the technical vision for our internal application framework stack, defining conventions, project archetypes, and lifecycle management for libraries and tooling.
- Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain core platform components mainly in Java, enabling product teams to ship quality code quickly and safely.
- Architecture & Standards: Champion best practices, standards, and review and approve RFCs that impact how we deploy code company-wide. For example: Observability, security, and performance best practices.
- Cloud & IaC: Provision and manage AWS resources with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK).
- Mentorship & Leadership: Serve as technical referent for a multi-disciplinary platform team; coach engineers, run architecture reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Security, and Infrastructure teams to align roadmaps, manage technical debt, and ensure platform capabilities meet business needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Track industry trends, evaluate new technologies and pilot innovations that keep our platform ahead of scale and compliance demands.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend or platform systems, with deep proficiency in Java. Golang professional experience is a plus.
- Good communication skills in English; able to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven track record designing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS (EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.).
- Hands-on knowledge of containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Infra-as-Code (Terraform/CDK), and modern CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD).
- Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and REST API design.
- Experience creating reusable SDKs, libraries, or internal developer platforms.
- Enable and scale the organization's capabilities to strategically align Java development practices with AI-driven tooling and workflows, maximizing engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
- Familiarity with observability stacks, agile methodologies, and software security fundamentals.
