Location: Bogotá, Colombia
World Kinect is seeking a highly skilled Lead, IT Software Developer IV to drive technical excellence and innovation within our aviation flight planning domain.
This is a senior individual contributor role focused on solving complex engineering challenges, developing business-critical solutions, mentoring engineers, and helping shape the technical direction of our products.
What You'll DoBuild and Deliver Business-Critical Solutions- Design, develop, and implement complex, high-impact features and systems from architecture through production deployment.
- Own technical solutions end-to-end using Agile methodologies and sprint-based development.
- Build proof-of-concepts and prototypes to evaluate new approaches and technologies.
- Lead efforts to modernize, refactor, and optimize legacy applications and frameworks.
- Partner with Architects, Product Owners, and Engineering Leadership to define technical roadmaps and future-state solutions.
- Provide technical expertise and recommendations that align engineering decisions with business objectives.
- Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges.
- Champion software quality through robust testing, code coverage, code reviews, and development best practices.
- Promote secure development practices and proactively address security vulnerabilities.
- Support and improve CI/CD processes, deployment automation, and engineering efficiency.
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation.
- Serve as a technical resource and mentor for other engineers.
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high standards across the team.
- Help establish engineering patterns, practices, and standards that improve consistency and quality.
- Act as a technical leader by influencing decisions, unblocking teammates, and driving collaboration across teams.
You will thrive in this role if you:
- Enjoy solving complex technical problems.
- Take ownership of technical solutions from concept through delivery.
- Balance hands-on development with technical mentorship and guidance.
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve systems, processes, and engineering practices.
- Influence and lead through technical expertise rather than formal authority.
- Are interested in growing toward a future Tech Lead position.
- Work on business-critical aviation and flight planning solutions.
- Solve complex engineering challenges in a highly technical environment.
- Influence product and architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers, architects, and product leaders.
- Develop technical leadership skills while remaining hands-on with software development.
- Follow a clear pathway toward future technical leadership opportunities.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex, high-impact software systems end-to-end
- Experience modernizing, refactoring, and optimizing legacy applications and frameworks
- Practical experience with Agile, sprint-based development methodologies
- Experience supporting and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong software quality practices: automated testing, code coverage, and code reviews
- Knowledge of secure development practices and ability to address security vulnerabilities
- Experience mentoring engineers, conducting design/code reviews, and driving engineering standards
- Ability to build prototypes and proofs-of-concept to evaluate new approaches
What We Do
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC) is a leading global energy management company, offering a broad suite of solutions across the energy product spectrum. In addition to our core energy and fuel offerings to customers in the transportation sector, we provide advisory services, sustainability and renewable energy solutions, as well as supply fulfillment for natural gas and power. We continue to focus on advancing the energy transition to lower carbon alternatives through expanding our portfolio of energy solutions and providing customers with greater access to sustainably sourced energy. For more information, visit https://corp.worldkinect.com.
