Head of Engineering

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DevsuConstruction technology
Colombia. Mexico. Peru. ArgentinaContractDirector
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Languages
Strong written communication skills in English and Spanish.
Experience
8+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling software in production environments.
Required Skills
AWSPythonDjangoTypeScriptNest.jsNext.jsReact

Requirements

  • Have 8+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling software in production environments.
  • Have proven experience defining the technical direction of an entire platform, not just individual services.
  • Bring strong experience across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI-enabled products.
  • Have hands-on experience operating and optimizing AWS environments in production.
  • Have experience implementing observability, monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices.
  • Have experience using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents to improve engineering productivity.
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of production systems, performance, scalability, reliability, and risk management.
  • Demonstrate autonomy, ownership, and decision-making ability in fast-paced environments.
  • Bring troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
  • Have strong written communication skills in English and Spanish.
  • Be able to create clear technical documentation, operational procedures, and incident reports.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical strategy, architecture, standards, priorities, and technical debt across the platform.
  • Lead AWS infrastructure operations, including EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, deployments, networking, security, and system maintenance.
  • Act as the final escalation point for production incidents, driving root-cause analysis and long-term solutions.
  • Deliver products end-to-end, from business discussions through production deployment and verification.
  • Establish engineering best practices for code reviews, branching strategies, documentation, deployment validation, and operational processes.
  • Build observability capabilities, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, service health checks, and operational dashboards.
  • Own security, access management, secrets, disaster recovery planning, compliance, and data protection.
  • Manage large-scale database operations, migrations, and data integrity across multiple markets.
  • Drive cloud, infrastructure, licensing, and AI consumption cost optimization.
  • Grow and scale the engineering organization by identifying hiring needs, onboarding team members, and evaluating outsourcing opportunities.
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