Code Reviewer Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia.

📋 Description

• Assess pull requests for accuracy, readability, maintainability, performance, and security prior to code integration.

• Deliver clear, constructive, and actionable written feedback that aligns with the client’s engineering standards.

• Recognize architectural issues, design trade-offs, and maintainability risks that extend beyond mere syntax or style concerns.

• Elevate complex technical issues to the client’s technical lead, providing sufficient context to facilitate swift decision-making.

• Ensure API consistency, backward compatibility, and clean integration practices across various services and applications.

• Identify prevalent security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS, IDOR, insecure authentication processes, and unsafe data management.

• Assist in upholding consistent code quality across backend, frontend, database, and cloud-native projects based on the assigned client stack.

• Foster a positive review culture by offering feedback that is professional, specific, and respectful.

• Provide reliable turnaround for pull request reviews within established asynchronous workflows, typically within 24 hours.

• Document recurring code quality challenges and patterns to enable team improvement over time.

⛳️ Requirements

• **Must-Have:**

• Over 4 years of professional software engineering experience in a relevant production setting.

• Proficient written English at C1 level or above; this is essential as most feedback will be written.

• Significant hands-on experience reviewing pull requests using GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or a comparable workflow.

• Extensive experience in at least one of the following stacks: Node.js or Python backend with React/TypeScript and PostgreSQL; Java with Spring Boot, microservices, and AWS or GCP; or Python data/backend stack with FastAPI or Django, SQL, and cloud-native systems.

• Strong understanding of clean coding practices, SOLID principles, common design patterns, and maintainable software architecture.

• Capacity to identify risks related to security, performance, backward compatibility, and architecture during code reviews.

• Experience working autonomously in an asynchronous remote environment, with the ability to deliver pull request reviews within 24 hours.

• **Nice to Have:**

• Experience in reviewing code across both backend and frontend systems.

• Familiarity with cloud-native development patterns in AWS or GCP.

• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, or API versioning.

• Background in mentoring engineers through written technical feedback.

• Experience in creating or refining code review standards, checklists, or engineering guidelines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to a **$200K+ perk marketplace** offering discounts on over 150 global services.

• Option to **withdraw up to 50% of approved earnings** prior to payday.