Micreservices Lead

Medellin, Colombia | Posted on 09/03/2026

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Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a Microservices Lead to lead the design, development, and delivery of microservices for a new MSP solution.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable, secure, resilient, and observable distributed systems using Spring Boot and AWS. The role will provide technical direction across architecture, APIs, integrations, data, security, testing, and deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of microservices using Spring Boot and AWS.
  
• Define service boundaries, APIs, contracts, and integration patterns.
  
• Design secure authentication and authorization workflows.
  
• Build data persistence solutions using SQL and NoSQL databases.
  
• Implement asynchronous and event-driven communication.
  
• Establish observability through centralized logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
  
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance.
  
• Oversee CI/CD, deployment, and environment configuration practices.
  
• Promote secure coding, secrets management, and cloud-native best practices.
  
• Troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues across services and environments.
  
• Provide technical guidance and establish engineering standards and best practices.
  

Requirements

Functional Skills

• Distributed SystemsArchitecture: Ability to design scalable and maintainable microservices architectures.
  
• Technical Leadership: Ability to define technicaldirection and guide engineering teams.
  
• API & Integration Design: Strong understanding of APIs,service contracts, and integration patterns.
  
• Cloud-Native Thinking: Ability to design solutionsleveraging cloud services effectively.
  
• Resilience & Reliability: Strong understanding of faulttolerance, recovery, and distributed system reliability.
  
• Security Mindset: Ability to incorporatesecurity into architecture and development practices.
  
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills fortroubleshooting complex distributed systems.
  

Technical Skills

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, SpringCloud, Spring Security, REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger.
  
• Architecture: Microservices, CQRS, Saga,Event Sourcing, Eventual Consistency, Circuit Breaker, Strangler Fig, andDatabase-per-Service.
  
• AWS: Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora,DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and MSK/Kafka.
  
• Security: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, OWASP APISecurity, secure coding, and secrets management.
  
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis,Kafka, schema migrations, Outbox Pattern, and idempotent consumers.
  
• Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray,OpenTelemetry, structured logging, correlation IDs, dashboards, andalerting.
  
• Testing: Unit/integration testing,Pact, Testcontainers, contract testing, load testing, and chaos testing.
  
• DevOps: CI/CD, deployment automation, environment configuration, and cloud-nativedevelopment practices.