Senior Software Engineer

Location: Colombia

Telesign connects, protects and proactively defends companies, customers and the digital interactions between them. With powerful AI that delivers identity with speed, accuracy and global reach, we enable Continuous Trust. Empowering companies to transact, communicate and engage with their customers free of fear, Continuous Trust makes the promise of the digital economy possible.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer! Are you passionate about building powerful, scalable, and high-impact software? Join us to design, develop, and deliver a suite of APIs that serve millions of users every day. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll not only write exceptional code but also take a leadership role—guiding projects, mentoring teammates, and helping shape the future of our technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be ready to roll up your sleeves and produce a well-designed and tested production quality code.
• Implementing highly available and elastically scalable 24/7 services in the cloud.
• Responsible for design and code reviews to help increase the quality of our products.
• Supports existing systems while making contributions towards future architecture.
• Propose and advise on technology solutions with side-by-side comparisons between proven technologies to help the business evaluate options.
• Interacts with business units effectively regarding requirements and specifications.
• Work collaboratively on some development tasks and independently on others.
• Collaborates within and across groups with little or no supervision in writing technical documents.
• Anticipate and suggest solutions to problems of significant scope.
• Generate engineering test plans from functional specification documents.
• Act as a mentor to other team members.
• Participate in the development process: design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Interact with business units effectively regarding requirements and specifications.
• Work closely with the team lead and may act as team lead or technical lead for a large portion of a project.
• Participate in the design and code reviews to help increase the quality of our products.
• Participates in the definition and application of the software development lifecycle.
• Work within a scrum team.

Essential Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development on cloud solutions (AWS preferred) in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, and Elastic Search (or equivalents).
• Understanding of development best practices and standards (test-driven development, design patterns, coding standards, etc.).
• Fluent in SQL.
• A solid grounding in version control and experience working with a team using Git.
• Experience with REST API development.
• Prior experience with Docker.
• Experience with Python.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• Strong understanding of AGILE and SCRUM methodologies.
• Basic familiarity with Linux and knowledge of basic Linux system administration tasks.
• Self-learner with strong problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communications and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Developing in a microservices-based environment.
• Experience with high volume web services, caching, distributed processing, replication and performance profiling.
• Familiarity with NoSQL options, and their pros and cons (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis).
• An impressive GitHub profile.

 

About Telesign:

Telesign connects and protects online experiences with sophisticated customer identity and engagement solutions. Through APIs that deliver user verification, data insights, and communications we solve today’s unique customer challenges by bridging businesses to the complex world of global telecommunications.Telesign is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe our differences help us create a better workplace, a better product, and a better community. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.Telesign also participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.Telesign is an Affirmative Action Employer and as part of the commitment to AAP, it will seek to ensure affirmative action to provide equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment, and that all personnel activities, such as the recruitment selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, transfer, layoff and termination processes remain free of illegal discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics.

 

NOTICE TO ALL POTENTIAL JOB CANDIDATES
We recently have become aware of individuals, unaffiliated with Telesign Corporation, who have been sending out fake employment offers using a name similar to ours, in an apparent attempt to defraud would-be job candidates. In a recent example, a scam email was sent from the @outlook.com domain. All emails sent on behalf of Telesign will come from email addresses ending in @telesign.com.
Please be advised that Telesign Corporation does not solicit candidates for employment via email - nor do we require or ask for fees or payments during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process. If any person solicits financial information, fees, or payments from you as part of the "recruitment process" or as part of a purported employment offer, you should assume that the communication is not from Telesign Corporation and is not sanctioned or approved by our Company.

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