# Head of Engineering (B2B Technology Services)

> Devsu · Colombia (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

**Salary:** Up to USD 60,000

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Engineering Maria

## Description

We are looking for a **Head of Engineering / Technical Director** to own the technology strategy, operations, and evolution of a multi-product ecosystem serving the construction industry across 15 Latin American countries.

The platform includes a B2B marketplace, AI-powered products, content platforms, business intelligence solutions, and AWS infrastructure managed in-house. This role is responsible for architecture, engineering execution, reliability, security, data, AI initiatives, and cloud cost optimization across the entire ecosystem.

### Responsibilities:

-   Own the technical strategy, architecture, standards, priorities, and technical debt across the platform.
-   Lead the operation of **AWS infrastructure, 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, including 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, identifying hiring needs, onboarding new team members, and evaluating outsourcing opportunities.
-   Participate in critical incident response, including after-hours support when required.

## Requirements

-   8+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling software in production environments.
-   Proven experience defining the technical direction of an entire platform, not just individual services.
-   Strong experience across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and **AI-enabled products.**
-   Hands-on experience operating and optimizing **AWS** environments in production.
-   Experience implementing observability, monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices.
-   Experience using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents to improve engineering productivity.
-   Strong understanding of production systems, performance, scalability, reliability, and risk management.
-   **Tech Stack:** TypeScript, Next.js, React, NestJS, Nx Monorepo, Prisma, MariaDB, Tailwind CSS, Python, Django, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront), nginx, PM2, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Stripe, WhatsApp Business, Product Analytics, and LLM APIs.
-   Demonstrated autonomy, ownership, and decision-making ability in fast-paced environments.
-   Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
-   Strong written communication skills in English and Spanish.
-   Ability to create clear technical documentation, operational procedures, and incident reports.

**Nice to Have**

-   Experience operating multi-region or multi-tenant environments.
-   Technical SEO experience at scale.
-   Payment and subscription billing platform experience.
-   Advanced MySQL/MariaDB expertise, including indexing, locking, and query optimization.
-   Experience launching and operating AI-powered products in production.
-   Experience building observability frameworks from scratch.
-   Cloud cost management and FinOps experience.
-   Experience designing and implementing analytics and data platforms.
-   Previous experience leading the technology function of a startup, scale-up, or small engineering organization.

## Benefits

A stable, long-term contract. Continuous Training. Private Health insurance. Flexible schedule. Work with some of the most talented software engineers in Latin America and the US, doing challenging work and world-class software for clients in the US and around the world.

## Apply

[Apply at Devsu](https://apply.workable.com/devsu/j/1C1554F5A5/apply)

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