Software Engineer Backend

About this role

STAND 8 provides end-to-end IT solutions and staffing services to enterprise partners across North America, with operational presence in Mexico supporting a wide range of technology, engineering, and business roles.

This role is responsible for leading the design and implementation of major features and services within the Platform Catalog ecosystem. The position drives architecture decisions, builds scalable backend services, and supports real-time data pipelines that power advertising platforms. This individual partners closely with product managers and stakeholders to turn business goals into technical outcomes while promoting reliability, performance, and observability. The role also provides technical leadership through mentoring, team coordination, and production support participation.

We are headquartered in Zapopan, Jalisco, and this hybrid role is based in Andares; however, we are open to interviewing qualified candidates located anywhere in Mexico.

Location & Work Type

Location: Zapopan, Jalisco

Work Type: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of major features or services within the Platform Catalog ecosystem.
• Drive architectural discussions and propose scalable solutions aligned with engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical outcomes.
• Advocate for system reliability, performance, and observability across multiple integrations.
• Design APIs to consume and produce data and build backend applications to power advertising platforms using Java, REST/GraphQL APIs, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Use Kafka, Aerospike, and Elasticsearch to support a real-time data pipeline for the broader advertising team.
• Build and support highly available, large-scale distributed systems using microservices architecture.
• Participate in and help manage on-call and production ...