Director of Engineering – AI-Driven SaaS Hub (Medellín)

Roca Alliances; Medellín; On-site; COP 300,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract (indefinite)

Private health insurance

On-site role in Medellín

Parking

Growth of new engineering hub

Job summary

Roca Alliances is expanding its engineering capabilities by establishing a new hub in Medellín. The Director of Engineering will build and lead the local team, champion AI-native development, and align with the Australia organization to accelerate the product roadmap.

You will hire engineers, drive high-velocity delivery, foster in-person collaboration, and set engineering standards for a distributed, multi-region product.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Experience building or scaling new teams, offices, or functions.
• Experience with cloud-native SaaS and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead Medellín engineering org and recruit top talent.
• Drive AI-first development practices to improve delivery speed.
• Establish engineering practices, tooling, and delivery rhythms.
• Coordinate with Australia engineering leadership on architecture and roadmap.
• Represent the Medellín team in leadership discussions.
• Shape an org structure scalable for growth.

Skills

Leadership experience

Cloud-native SaaS

AWS experience

Hiring & interviewing

AI-first development

English proficiency

Executive presence

Distributed/global teams

In-person collaboration

Ambiguity management

People management

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Roca Alliances is expanding its engineering capabilities by establishing a new hub in Medellín. The Director of Engineering will build and lead the local team, champion AI-native development, and align with the Australia organization to accelerate the product roadmap.

You will hire engineers, drive high-velocity delivery, foster in-person collaboration, and set engineering standards for a distributed, multi-region product.