[Hiring] Technical Lead @Cresteo

Role Description

As a Software Engineer at Cresteo, you'll be more than just a developer; you will be part of transforming the tech industry through our honest, transparent, and people-centric approach. Your role will be diverse and dynamic, including:

• Developing and maintaining software solutions.
• Working with a varied technology stack.
• Ensuring that products are functional, efficient, reliable, and scalable.

By joining us, you're not just choosing a job; you're aligning with a vision that values the human side of tech, where your skills and passion are recognized, nurtured, and celebrated.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x, including production experience migrating applications from Spring Boot 2.x to 3.x.
• Strong hands-on software engineering background, with recent experience writing and troubleshooting production code.
• Deep experience designing and operating AWS serverless architectures at scale using Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS Proxy, and S3.
• Experience owning the architecture and technical evolution of distributed systems composed of multiple independently deployed services.
• Strong understanding of serverless runtime and performance considerations, including Lambda cold starts, SnapStart, connection pooling, scalability, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and AWS SAM.
• Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including pipeline design, environment promotion, release gating, and production deployment practices.
• Experience defining engineering standards, leading code reviews, and mentoring senior software engineers.
• Strong experience with security and dependency lifecycle management, including CVE triage, dependency/BOM strategies, secrets management, and secret rotation.
• Experience identifying and reducing architectural duplication across distributed services through shared libraries, reusable components, or platform engineering practices.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, with the ability to work hands-on with engineers on high-priority incidents.
• Experience taking ownership of established codebases and architectures, including transitions from other teams or vendors, is highly valued.
• Experience engineering within SOC 2, regulated, or similarly controlled environments is highly valued.
• Experience with identity and access management platforms such as Curity, ForgeRock, Ping Identity, Auth0, or equivalent is valued.
• Understanding of cost optimization strategies for AWS serverless workloads.
• Strong technical leadership and delivery ownership, with accountability for technical decisions, engineering quality, and delivery commitments.
• Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain architecture decisions, technical risks, incidents, and delivery trade-offs clearly.
• Professional English communication skills for direct collaboration with client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Own the technical direction and hands-on evolution of a large Java and AWS serverless ecosystem.
• Set engineering standards while remaining close to production code and critical incident resolution.
• Lead senior engineers and work directly with client stakeholders to improve architecture, reliability, security, and delivery across a complex distributed platform.

Benefits

• 100% Remote.
• USD above-average salaries.
• Profit Sharing Policy.
• Unlimited PTOs after your first year (20 PTOs the first year).
• Equipment for your setup.
• Great work/life balance.
• Honest, simple, and transparent culture.
• US-based clients and international teams.