Engineering Manager

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Simpro Group is a SaaS leader in field service management (FSM). Simpro helps trades and field service businesses around the world manage jobs, people, and profitability. Our engineering teams — anchored by a world-class organization in Australia — have built FSM software that is trusted by thousands of businesses globally. We are now investing in a new engineering hub in Medellín, Colombia, and are looking for a Director of Engineering to build and lead this team.

We’re looking for a Engineering Manager that will be responsible for the management, development, delivery, and support. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on expanding the capabilities of the Simpro platform, with AI as a core lever to accelerate delivery and improve team velocity. You will hire and build the Medellín engineering team, and shape how that team uses AI-native development practices to ship faster and more reliably. You'll work in close partnership with our existing engineering organization in Australia, which has built and scaled the core Simpro platform. Your team will extend their work — taking on new product capabilities, accelerating roadmap delivery, and operating as a high-velocity engineering pod within the global org.

• →Build the org: Recruit, interview, and hire the engineers, tech leads, and future managers of the Medellín engineering team.
• →Accelerate delivery with AI: Champion AI-first, AI-native development practices and tooling to increase development speed, improve code quality, and lift team velocity.
• →Set the foundation: Establish engineering practices, tooling, coding standards, and delivery rhythms suited to a distributed, multi-region product organization.
• →Partner across time zones: Build a strong working relationship with engineering leadership in Australia to align on architecture, roadmap, and ways of working, ensuring Medellín integrates seamlessly rather than operating as a silo.
• →Own delivery: Take accountability for the Colombia team's contributions to the Simpro product roadmap, balancing speed with the quality bar of an established platform.
• →Represent Colombia in the global org: Act as the voice of the Medellín team in leadership discussions and planning cycles across the Simpro engineering organization.
• →Scale responsibly: Design an org structure (squads, leads, career paths) that can grow the team over time while sustaining high velocity.Join a global engineering environment where innovation, collaboration, and scalability drive impactful technology solutions while accelerating your professional growth within an international tech company.

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams, ideally including experience building or scaling a new team, office, or function.
• Strong hands-on technical background (full-stack, cloud-native SaaS) with the credibility to hire and evaluate senior engineering talent.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud/SaaS solutions on AWS that scale reliably with high availability.
• Experience working in a distributed/global engineering model, collaborating effectively across time zones and cultures — Australia/APAC experience is a plus.
• A track record of hiring: sourcing, interviewing, and building strong engineering teams.
• Strong executive presence: the credibility, communication, and gravitas to represent the Medellín team in front of senior leadership and to influence decisions across the global engineering org.
• Prior experience in FSM, vertical SaaS, or B2B software is a plus, but adaptability and leadership capability matter more than domain-specific expertise.