Staff Engineer - Ruby, Golang, Python

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Serve as a principal technical contributor spearheading architecture decisions and building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for diverse client engagements.

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Staff Engineer

Location: Colombia 


.Monks Technology Services, part of Media.Monks and S4 Capital, is a global consulting firm mastering AI-powered transformations for the Fortune 100. We combine long-term strategic thinking, deep enterprise experience, and a human-centered approach to help clients transform business processes and dominate their industries.

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll serve as a principal technical contributor across multiple client engagements—owning architecture decisions, delivering high-performance backend systems, and building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. You’ll guide engineering teams through modern delivery practices while also helping modernize and maintain established systems in complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the technical vision for complex projects, driving architecture, design patterns, and implementation strategy
  • Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for high-availability production environments
  • Serve as a hands-on expert contributor across the backend stack, primarily using Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Golang, and Python
  • Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, with deep ownership of Kubernetes container orchestration on EKS
  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and operational automation using Pulumi to ensure repeatable, reliable environments
  • Champion DevSecOps best practices across the delivery lifecycle, including CI/CD, security controls, and release automation
  • Modernize and support legacy platforms, including troubleshooting, optimizing, and migrating LAMP-based environments
  • Drive engineering quality through code reviews, technical mentorship, and establishing team-wide best practices
  • Partner directly with clients to clarify requirements, communicate tradeoffs, and present solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Other duties as assigned

About You

Qualifications & Skills

  • 14+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering, including senior technical leadership (e.g., Staff/Principal/Senior Consultant)
  • Strong backend engineering expertise, with demonstrable production experience in at least two of: Ruby, Golang, Python
  • Deep AWS experience, including hands-on Kubernetes expertise with EKS (cluster operations, scaling, performance, reliability)
  • DevSecOps proficiency, including building/operating CI/CD pipelines and embedding security practices into delivery workflows
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Pulumi and practical use of GitOps principles (e.g., FluxCD)
  • Expert understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and common design patterns—applied to both modern and legacy systems
  • Consultative communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and guide stakeholder decisions
  • Mentorship and collaboration strengths, with a track record of elevating team performance and engineering standards
  • Nice to have: TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React); deep LAMP optimization experience; prior consulting experience and comfort context-switching across domains

.Monks Technology Services does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

 

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us. 

S4Capital focuses on building a digital advertising and marketing services business that disrupts traditional models by integrating content, data, and technology to deliver seamless, always-on solutions for a diverse range of clients, including global ...

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