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**Location**:
Medellín, Colombia

**Employment Type**:
Full time

**Location Type**:
Hybrid

**Department**:
Engineering

OverviewApplication

**About NewtonX**

NewtonX is a B2B insights company trusted by the world's most innovative companies to make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We combine a verified network of business professionals with AI-powered research tools to deliver research intelligence faster, more precise, and more defensible than traditional methods.
- Our clients include Google, Microsoft, TikTok, DoorDash, Stripe, and Coinbase. Our research has been cited by Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, and the Wall Street Journal.
- NewtonX has raised $47M from investors including Two Sigma Ventures, Third Prime, XFund, and Citi Ventures.

**The Role**:
As NewtonX's first Engineering Manager in Colombia, this is a dual mandate: drive high-velocity engineering delivery and act as the talent magnet who establishes Medellín as a core NewtonX engineering hub.

You'll own team growth from the ground up — recruiting, onboarding, and developing exceptional local engineering talent — while partnering closely with US-based leadership to keep the Medellín team fully integrated and high-performing. Fluency and confidence in English, both written and verbal, is essential. You'll represent the team in cross-functional planning, leadership discussions, and technical reviews.

**What You'll Own**:
**Regional Build & Talent Development**
- Own the Medellín hiring engine — drive sourcing, interviews, and closing with urgency and a high bar for backend and full-stack talent.
- Be a talent magnet — build NewtonX's presence in Medellín's tech community through meetups, university relationships, and your network.
- Design onboarding that ramps engineers fast and creates the scaffolding (runbooks, norms, rituals)



for a self-sustaining team.
- Coach and develop engineers through structured 1:1s, consistent feedback, and a culture of ownership and accountability.

**Team Leadership & Execution**
- Drive consistent, high-velocity delivery — remove blockers, maintain sprint health, and translate business priorities into well-scoped engineering work.
- Track the right metrics and surface risks early; deliver with urgency without sacrificing quality or sustainability.
- Uphold engineering standards across code review, testing, documentation, and CI/CD hygiene.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Operate as a full partner to US-based leadership — align with Product, Data, and Engineering on priorities, timelines, and platform direction.
- Represent the Medellín team in cross-functional planning, resource discussions, and roadmap prioritization.
- Break down silos and build relationships across org boundaries, proactively bridging time zones and communication gaps.

**Technical Direction**
- Stay close to the technical work — review designs, weigh in on architectural decisions, and ensure output reflects scalability and maintainability.
- Oversee on-call coverage and observability practices (PagerDuty, Sentry); drive reductions in toil.
- In collaboration with Technical Leads, help shape platform direction aligned to company objectives.

**What We're Looking For**:
**Required**




- 6+ years in engineering with at least 2-3 years managing backend, platform, or infrastructure teams.
- Deep backend engineering expertise — able to engage substantively with architectural decisions. Experience with Python and React is a plus.
- Proven track record as a talent magnet — you've built teams before and take recruiting as seriously as delivery.
- Excellent English proficiency — clear, confident communication in writing and in cross-functional meetings with US-based leadership.
- High-velocity execution mindset — you move fast, decide with incomplete information, and keep a team in motion.
- Strong cross-cultural communication skills; comfortable with ambiguity and influencing without direct authority.
- Hands-on familiarity with PagerDuty, Sentry or equivalent, and GitHub for engineering workflows.

**Nice to Have**
- Experience growing an engineering presence in Medellín or the broader Colombia tech ecosystem
- Background at a B2B SaaS or data company
- Familiarity with Terraform, Cloudflare, or infrastructure-as-code
- Existing network in Medellín's tech community — universities, meetups, incubators

**Why Join NewtonX**:

- Pioneer the region: Be the founding EM for NewtonX's Medellín hub — shape the culture, hiring bar, and engineering identity of a new office from the ground up.
- High ownership from day one: Real influence over technical direction, team culture, and how we grow in Colombia.
- Frontier B2B AI: Work on infrastructure powering the most sophisticated research and decision-making workflows in the world.
- Exceptional traction: Strong product-market fit with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and consulting firms.
- World-class team: Work alongside incredibly smart, driven people who are passionat

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📌 Engineering Manager (Medellín)
🏢 NewtonX
📍 Medellín