Head of Engineering – MSP Platform (Medellín)

Roca Alliances; Medellín; On-site; COP 180,000,000 - 260,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Roca Alliances is building a new engineering team in Medellín to own the MSP partner portal, partnering with US and Europe. As the first hire, you will recruit, lead and shape the team, delivering the portal roadmap and new APIs while transitioning from the current vendor.

You will report to the VP of Enterprise Applications and collaborate daily with US and European colleagues, driving production readiness and scalable cloud-based delivery in a modern React/Node stack.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams, 5+ engineers.
• Track record delivering with distributed teams across time zones.
• Experience taking over a system from a vendor or SI.
• Strong grounding in modern web architecture (React, Node/TypeScript, microservices, cloud).
• Excellent Jira-based Agile delivery and roadmapping.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and grow a team of up to 14 engineers, architects, QA and product specialists.
• Run the transition from current vendor: knowledge-transfer and production handover.
• Own delivery of the portal roadmap and new APIs with Agile practices.
• Lead hiring across two phases: define interview processes and onboard new joiners.
• Coach team, provide growth paths and foster ownership.
• Be the main link with US/EU stakeholders in Sales Ops, Finance, Billing, Partner and Platform.
• Set up on-call, incident and change-management practices.

Skills

Team management

Hiring & developing people

Distributed teams

Vendor handover experience

English communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

React

Node/TypeScript

AWS

Jira

Cloud architecture

Job description

Roca Alliances is building a new engineering team in Medellín to own the MSP partner portal, partnering with US and Europe. As the first hire, you will recruit, lead and shape the team, delivering the portal roadmap and new APIs while transitioning from the current vendor.

You will report to the VP of Enterprise Applications and collaborate daily with US and European colleagues, driving production readiness and scalable cloud-based delivery in a modern React/Node stack.