Lead Software Engineer; Latam, Remote
St Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, 33701, USA
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer
Location: St Petersburg
We are Kubikware™, a digital agency with 20+ years of experience designing and developing web and mobile platforms, as well as video games, AR/VR apps, and AI/ML. We are headquartered in Miami, FL, with a strong South American team, and have clients and partners in the US market across multiple industries. Among other accolades, we are a 5-time Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America honoree.
We are looking to expand our roster with a Lead Software Engineer (Java & Graph
QL) located in Latin America to join a client-facing team through a staff augmentation engagement. This role is backend-focused, with strong ownership over API design, performance, and system scalability.
The ideal candidate has strong experience building enterprise-level backend systems and implementing Graph
QL in production environments.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot
- Proven experience designing and implementing Graph
QL APIs in production - Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and microservices
- Strong experience with RESTful APIs and API design patterns
- Solid experience with relational databases (Postgre
SQL, MySQL, etc.) - Experience with AWS and cloud-based environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka is a plus)
- Strong ownership mindset and leadership capabilities
- Advanced English communication skills (client-facing role)
- Availability to overlap at least 4 hours with Pacific Time
- Experience with React or Type Script
- Experience in high-traffic or consumer-facing platforms
- Experience working in consulting or distributed global teams
- Fully remote
- Staff augmentation engagement
- Full-time
- Long-term project with strong extension potential
- Opportunity to work directly with US-based clients
If you’re excited to lead backend initiatives in distributed, high-performance environments, we’d love to connect.
Please no agencies or C2C.
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