Lead Software Engineer (Java / Kafka) - Colombia

What you'll do

• Ownership and delivery accountability

  Own the end‑to‑end delivery of system components. Take responsibility for quality, timelines, and release readiness, ensuring realistic commitments are met while escalating risks early and driving mitigation.

• System design contribution and implementation leadership

  Contribute to and own component‑level design of complex services, ensuring alignment between design and implementation, challenging assumptions, and balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Estimation, planning and risk management

  Break down ambiguous business requirements into clear technical work, provide accurate estimations, plan across dependencies, and continuously re‑assess risk, adjusting scope and communicating trade‑offs transparently.

• Engineering excellence and code ownership

  Set a high bar for code quality by establishing development standa...