
Technical Lead
LatamCent
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Argentina
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Salary
💰 $55,000 - $60,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect high-throughput Kafka-based streaming pipelines
- Design and implement distributed microservices in Go and Node.js/TypeScript
- Define partitioning strategies, concurrency models, and windowed aggregation patterns
- Design for near-real-time streaming evolution
- Lead scaling, reliability, and performance strategy across services
- Ensure cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native deployment architecture
- Implement resilient streaming patterns including retries, DLQs, idempotency, and backpressure handling
- Design schema evolution strategies using Avro or Protobuf with Schema Registry
- Build systems capable of processing 10M+ messages per day
- Guide dynamic configuration using CRDs and Kubernetes operator patterns
- Define observability standards using OpenTelemetry, metrics, and tracing
- Ensure secure container practices including SBOM, CVE hygiene, and image hardening
- Define CI/CD strategies for secure and reliable deployment
- Design multi-tenant cloud-ready environments
- Establish metrics-driven scaling and monitoring standards
- Conduct architectural reviews and mentor engineers
- Guide teams across time zones in a distributed environment
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and domain stakeholders
- Bring telecom domain awareness into system design decisions
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years building distributed systems at scale
- 2+ years of strong Go experience (preferred but highly valued)
- Strong experience with Kafka including consumer groups, partitions, retries, DLQ, and performance tuning
- Experience building high-throughput microservices handling 10M+ messages per day
- Strong understanding of concurrency models (goroutines, channels)
- Experience with Kubernetes including pods, scaling, Helm, CRDs, and operators
- Experience with Node.js / TypeScript backend services
- Experience with time-series databases such as InfluxDB or Prometheus
- Strong understanding of cloud-native design principles
- Experience implementing observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry, metrics-driven scaling)
Benefits
- Remote-first team across Latin America
- Exposure to modern streaming, cloud-native, and distributed systems challenges
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoNode.jsTypeScriptKafkaKubernetesAvroProtobufOpenTelemetryCI/CDtime-series databases
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationscaling strategyreliabilityperformance strategyarchitectural reviewscross-functional collaborationguiding distributed teams