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Software Engineer Expert

On-site Heredia, Costa Rica

Job description _

About the Role _

As a Technical Lead Development Engineer, you will lead the design, development, testing and implementation of automotive software solutions. You will build and improve batch and real-time workloads in AWS and assess current systems against the AWS Well-Architected Framework, with particular emphasis on Operational Excellence. You will also recommend and lead improvements that strengthen reliability, scalability and delivery efficiency.

A day in this role _

  • Lead the technical planning and delivery of features, proofs of concept, complex systems and cross-functional engineering projects.
  • Own the end-to-end design, operation and continuous improvement of data pipelines using AWS Glue, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda and related services.
  • Define reusable ingestion, transformation, storage and delivery patterns for batch and near-real-time workloads.
  • Provision and manage AWS resources with Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Monitor pipeline health, investigate failures, resolve data quality issues and improve logging and alerting.
  • Develop and maintain scalable automation and ETL jobs, focusing on performance, maintainability and data quality.
  • Deploy new and existing applications to AWS and support cloud migration using reliable, repeatable release practices.
  • Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, security validation and deployment.
  • Design and develop test automation frameworks for unit and smoke testing.
  • Assess systems against the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and lead improvements in efficiency, automation, reliability and supportability.
  • Support Backlog Grooming with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team and stakeholders so requirements are properly captured in stories.
  • Work with project team members across all phases of the software development life cycle.
  • Clarify project requirements with the team, own the system architecture and technical design, and guide development of application components.
  • Perform design and code reviews for the automotive applications to maintain code quality.

The expertise requested _

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field with significant software and computer science coursework.
  • 10+ years of software development experience, including designing and building high-volume transactional, large-scale distributed and multi-tenant systems with cloud-native technologies.
  • Expert in designing and developing microservices at scale using Spring Boot and API gateways.
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying large-scale applications to the cloud.
  • Deep understanding of AWS components for compute, storage, containers, security, monitoring, databases, and front-end web & mobile.
  • In-depth knowledge of Jenkins, Bitbucket, Docker, Git, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, CloudWatch, Python, EC2, Lambda, S3, Amazon Bedrock and Terraform.
  • Experience with databases such as SQL and Redshift.
  • Ability to work independently, with remote management and with local/remote teams.
  • Excellent understanding of programming concepts, the software development lifecycle and Agile methodology.
  • Excellent communication, analytical, troubleshooting and time management skills.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching and training junior developers.

Desired or nice to have expertise _

  • AWS certification (Solutions Architect).

Our Core values are focus to inclusion and diversity, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will go thru a fair recruitment process regardless of their race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or disability status.

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Source: the employer's careers page. Last checked 2026-10-22. Posted 2026-10-22.

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