Senior Backend Python Engineer | Global Impact & Ownership

NewtonX; Colombia; Presencial; COP 90.000.000 - 150.000.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Full-time contract

Equity included

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible work environment

Descripción de la vacante

NewtonX, Medellín engineering hub, is seeking a software engineer to design and build fault-tolerant, modular systems powering our research platform. You will work on APIs, queues, streaming data pipelines, and contribute to architectural decisions with a growing local team.

The role requires 3–4 years of Python experience, Django, REST APIs, and SQL, with familiarity in scalable cloud environments. English proficiency is essential for cross-time-zone collaboration and reviews.

Formación

• 3–4 years minimum experience as a software engineer with strong Python across projects (tech stack: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework).
• Hands-on web app development including REST APIs and asynchronous job-processing applications.
• Strong SQL experience with a relational database and scalable systems experience (Kubernetes, cloud).

Responsabilidades

• Design and develop modular, reusable, production-grade applications.
• Build horizontally scalable software, including RESTful APIs and background jobs that consume queues.
• Contribute to solution design and participate in code review with other engineers.
• Perform debugging, resolve tech debt, and drive code quality and CI/CD hygiene.
• Uphold engineering standards across code review, testing, documentation, and deployment pipelines.

Conocimientos

Python

Django

REST APIs

SQL

Kubernetes

English proficiency

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

GCP

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Cloudflare

Descripción del empleo

NewtonX, Medellín engineering hub, is seeking a software engineer to design and build fault-tolerant, modular systems powering our research platform. You will work on APIs, queues, streaming data pipelines, and contribute to architectural decisions with a growing local team.

The role requires 3–4 years of Python experience, Django, REST APIs, and SQL, with familiarity in scalable cloud environments. English proficiency is essential for cross-time-zone collaboration and reviews.