Senior Software Engineer (Java & Go)

About the role

Nortal is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Java & Go) for a small, experienced engineering team of a cross-border payments company. The team builds and maintains the technology that supports regulatory compliance, including an event-driven rules engine, a rule-management UI, automated regulatory reporting, identity-data services and immutable regulatory storage. The role is fully remote, with a focus on autonomy and impact.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services in Java and Go, including event-driven and queue-based integrations handling high volumes of transactions.
• Contribute to system design, technical improvements and application reliability, and work with AWS infrastructure and observability tools.
• Own features end to end: requirements, estimation, implementation, testing, deployment and demonstration.
• Develop unit, functional, integration and end-to-end tests, participate in code reviews, support CI/CD and investigate defects.
• Work with the Technical Referent, document work and collaborate with distributed colleagues across time zones.
• Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude or Cursor, reviewing and validating generated code before production.
• Take part in Nortal's Technical Interviewer Program.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend expertise.
• Strong production experience with Java and working knowledge of Go, or strong Go experience with the ability to become productive in Java quickly.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven or queue-based systems and high-volume data or transaction processing.
• Ability to deliver features independently from requirements to production.
• Excellent written and spoken English (C1 or above).
• Ability to maintain working-hour overlap with European teams (CET/CEST); exact schedule to be confirmed.

Required skills

• Java and Go
• AWS and application observability or monitoring tools
• CI/CD pipelines and code review practices
• Unit, functional, integration and end-to-end testing
• Nice to have: Rust, React and TypeScript, Databricks or other data platforms, fintech/compliance background, Spanish or Portuguese

What we offer

• Competitive USD salary and 100% remote work.
• Paid time off and national holidays, sick leave, annual credit and a birthday off.
• Team-building activities, tech talks and access to coworking spaces across LATAM.
• Support from the People Care team and a close-knit remote team.