Senior Backend Python Engineer — Scalable APIs & Pipelines

NewtonX; Medellín; Presencial; COP 120.000.000 - 180.000.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible work environment

Descripción de la vacante

NewtonX is building a Medellín-based engineering hub, where you will design and implement modular, scalable software powering our research platform. You will work on APIs, data pipelines, and background jobs in a fast-growing team with strong collaboration with US leadership.

The role requires 5+ years of Python/Django experience, hands-on API development, and fluency in English to participate in technical reviews and cross-time-zone planning.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with strong Python experience across multiple projects (tech stack: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework).
• Hands-on experience developing web applications, including REST APIs.
• Experience building asynchronous job-processing applications (e.g., Dataflow or similar).
• Strong SQL experience with a common relational database.
• Comfortable working with horizontally scalable systems (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, or EC2 behind a load balancer).
• Excellent English proficiency — clear, confident communication in writing and in cross-functional meetings with US-based leadership.
• Bachelor's degree or greater.

Responsabilidades

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

Conocimientos

Python

Django

Django Rest Framework

REST APIs

SQL

Kubernetes

English proficiency

Educación

Bachelor's degree or greater

Herramientas

GCP

Terraform

Cloudflare

PostgreSQL

Descripción del empleo

NewtonX is building a Medellín-based engineering hub, where you will design and implement modular, scalable software powering our research platform. You will work on APIs, data pipelines, and background jobs in a fast-growing team with strong collaboration with US leadership.

The role requires 5+ years of Python/Django experience, hands-on API development, and fluency in English to participate in technical reviews and cross-time-zone planning.