Senior, Software Engineer
Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina · Capital Federal, Argentina · DAR · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina · Capital Federal, Argentina · DAR
About the role
- As a Senior Engineer at DEPT, you own significant portions of a project, taking semi-defined problems, turning them into plans, and shipping them.
- This role is primarily backend focused, occasionally diving into cloud infrastructure while also requiring comfort in a modern frontend codebase.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global brands, taking high ownership of your workstreams and their dependencies.
- Take specs that are incomplete or ambiguous, resolve the open questions, and turn them into clear requirements, tasks, and stories with time-to-complete estimates people can plan around.
- Participate in technical design of systems, schemas, and pipelines, and offer sound guidance on architecture and infrastructure decisions.
- Integrate third-party APIs and systems, and design the contracts that frontend teams and other services build against.
- Perform code reviews that raise the bar, both submitting your own work and giving constructive feedback that makes your teammates better.
- Surface technical blockers, risks, and client-facing issues early enough for the team to course-correct.
- Advocate for best practices in testing, security, performance, and CI/CD, and encourage others to do the same.
- Work directly with working-level client stakeholders over email, on calls, and in person, and start building demo and presentation content of your own.
- Apply AI and agentic capabilities to real client work, and contribute back to how the craft adopts them through reusable templates, prototyping sessions, and practical guidance for other teams.
- Share what you learn, internally through Slack, brown bags, and DEPT U, and externally through articles or talks as project work allows.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and maintaining production-level backend systems used by real people.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs and third-party systems.
- Solid working knowledge of database platforms, both SQL and NoSQL.
- Enough familiarity with modern frontend development (preferably Angular) to read the code, review a PR, and debug across the stack.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Google Cloud preferred, AWS or Azure also welcome).
- Daily, real-world use of GenAI productivity tools (Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex) in your development workflow.
- A working understanding of core LLM concepts and where they're a good fit for a problem.
- Fluency with version control (git), Agile processes, and CI/CD tooling.
- The ability to research independently and know when to ask for help, without spinning wheels on already-solved problems.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience mentoring engineers earlier in their careers.
- Exposure to agent development frameworks.
- Contributions to open source, technical writing, or conference speaking.
Benefits
- Premium healthcare through OSDE for the employee and their immediate family members
- Mendel prepaid card with a monthly allowance for grocery purchases
- Monthly reimbursements for Wi-Fi/electricity expenses
- Monthly reimbursements for training/English classes
- 100% covered Plan Total membership at Sportclub
- Access to a benefits platform through Bonda
- A flexible vacation policy
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Angular
- Google Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- Gemini CLI
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Git
- CI/CD