Lead, Software Engineer - Performance (Guadalajara)

Must-Have

• Strong hands-on programming expertise in Java and Python, with the ability to design, build, test, and optimise production-grade backend services
• Strong experience with React for building modern, responsive, and Client user interfaces for enterprise applications
• Experience with Next.js or modern front-end architecture patterns alongside React
• Deep experience building cloud-native applications using containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and managed cloud services in AWS and/or Azure
• Strong expertise in designing and building APIs, including RESTful services, service contracts, versioning, security, and integration patterns
• Proven experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, streaming, and resilient distributed system design
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and release workflows
• Strong understanding of software engineering quality metrics such as code quality, test automation, reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability

Good to Have

• Experience building agentic applications or AI-powered systems using LLMs, orchestration frameworks, retrieval, tool calling, and workflow automation
• Experience with API gateway, service mesh, and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience with Kafka, event streaming platforms or large-scale messaging ecosystems
• Exposure to CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and release engineering practices
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments where security, governance, compliance, and auditability are critical
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence architecture, engineering standards, and developer productivity at team level