--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Cobre' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-cobre-latin-america-g2ktjedf8t51' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Senior Software Engineer at Cobre - **Company:** Cobre - **Location:** Latin America - **Posted:** 2025-07-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobre/jobs/4009743009 ## Job description What is Cobre, and what do we do? Cobre is Latin America’s leading instant b2b payments platform. We solve the region’s most complex money movement challenges by building advanced financial infrastructure that enables companies to move money faster, safer, and more efficiently. We enable instant business payments—local or international, direct or via API—all from a single platform. Built for fintechs, PSPs, banks, and finance teams that demand speed, control, and efficiency. From real-time payments to automated treasury, we turn complex financial processes into simple experiences. Cobre is the first platform in Colombia to enable companies to pay both banked and unbanked beneficiaries within the same payment cycle and through a single interface. We are building the enterprise payments infrastructure of Latin America! What we are looking for: As a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to design, coding, testing, and implementation. What would you be doing: - Analyze, develop, test, and write code necessary to adapt to business requirements. - Analyze and resolve platform issues by identifying the root causes and their effects on hardware, network, service operations, and overall quality. - Define, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability strategies (metrics, logging, alerting) to ensure system health and performance. - Review code developed by other engineers, providing feedback to ensure adherence to the best practices. - Collaborate across teams on product, security, architecture, and performance to deliver high-quality software solutions. - Ability to code/develop and build/deploy the necessary solution within our existing environments, identifying and managing delivery risks, proactively removing blockers, promoting continuous delivery practices. - Actively participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide the best solution, ensuring scalability and resiliency. - Be a mentor to your team members. - Drive the delivery process, coordinating deployments, validating readiness, and ensuring alignment with delivery timelines and business goals. - Managed task planning. What do you need: - 7+ years of experience proficiently writing code in Java Spring Boot, and 2+ with Python (additional programming languages are a plus). - 3+ years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices applications (deployment over AWS environments is preferred). - 2+ years of experience with software design and architecture. - Direct experience working on highly concurrent processing platforms, ideally in the payment industry (processors, PSPs, processing gateways, Exchanges, etc). - Understanding of DevOps best practices, IaC, and cloud-first software development - Experience in CI/CD concept, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization - Experience working with complex real-time distributed systems - Strong oral and written communication skills. If you're seeking an exciting next step that would both challenge and thrill you, then this opportunity is for you! ## About Cobre ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cobre builds Latin America’s financial infrastructure, enabling companies to send and receive payments across the region with a single API integration. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Bogotá, Colombia - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Jose V. Gedeon (CEO), Felipe Gedeon (CRO), Jose Donato (CTO), Alberto Chejne ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Fintech / Payments Infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B — large and medium-sized enterprises, including e-commerce platforms, technology companies, real estate administrators, and financial institutions across Latin America - **Mission statement**: To build the business payments infrastructure Latin America needs — making money flow fast, reliable, and frictionless. ## Products & Services - **Domestic Payments (Pexto Colombia)**: Enables companies to send and receive domestic payments in Colombia with instant transfers, API integration, and full cash flow traceability. - **Cross-Border Money Movement (CBMM)**: Facilitates real-time cross-border transactions with no intermediaries and full regulatory compliance across Latin America. - **Treasury Management Platform**: Centralizes treasury operations, automating reconciliation, collections, and payments with real-time cash flow visibility. - **API Infrastructure**: Programmatic access to payment rails, allowing companies to build financial products and automate money movement. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Total Funding**: $95.29M (Series C, last raised ~2 years ago) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cobre) - **Key Metric**: Over $10 billion in total payment volume moved; 12+ million transactions completed in 2024 [cobre.com](https://www.cobre.com/en/about-us) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed in detail, but backed by top-tier venture capital firms (Series C round of $27M) - **Growth Signals**: Expanded to Mexico in 2024 (second-largest market in the region); serves 250+ customers across 8 countries (Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Switzerland, Canada); operates across 24+ industries; 170 total employees [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cobre) ## Competitive Advantages - **Single API for all of LatAm**: One integration to send and receive payments across multiple countries, reducing complexity for businesses. - **Real-time infrastructure**: Instant transfers even outside banking hours, with full traceability and data consistency. - **Regulatory compliance**: Built to comply with local, regional, and global regulations in every market they enter. - **Proven scale**: Over $10 billion in payment volume moved and 12+ million transactions in 2024 alone, demonstrating production-grade reliability. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic expansion**: Entered Mexico in 2024 as the second-largest market; likely to continue expanding across Latin America. - **Cross-border payments**: Deepening the Cross-Border Money Movement (CBMM) product to reduce friction for companies operating across multiple LatAm countries. - **Product depth**: Building more programmable, API-first treasury and payment tools to serve enterprise clients and enable new financial products. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as adaptable, resilient, and conductor-like — building flexible solutions for mission-critical financial operations. The team values autonomy and ownership. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Offers remote roles across Latin America, with in-office options in Bogotá and Mexico City. Some roles are fully remote, others are on-site. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cobre) - **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on building resilient, mission-critical infrastructure. Roles include Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and Data Engineer — suggesting a modern, cloud-native tech stack. - **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company (170 employees, 250+ customers, $10B+ volume) with significant expansion into Mexico — offering strong career growth potential for early employees. - **Notable perks**: Remote-first culture for many roles; opportunity to work on high-impact financial infrastructure across Latin America. ## Sources 1. [cobre.com](https://www.cobre.com/en/about-us) 2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/cobre) 3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cobre) 4. 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