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title: 'AI Data Engineer at Katapult Labs'
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# AI Data Engineer at Katapult Labs

- **Company:** Katapult Labs
- **Location:** Colombia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/katapult-labs/c6f92b44-a4d5-4554-806e-857621d82486

## Job description

AI Data Engineer Katapult Labs · Remote (LATAM) · Full-time

## About Katapult

Katapult is an AI-first engineering studio connecting senior LATAM talent with startups and companies in the US. We're not a staff-augmentation shop: every person we put in front of a client represents Katapult, co-creates product, and owns the outcome directly, with no managers or leads acting as a layer in between.

The Opportunity We're looking for a Data Engineer who builds, not just maintains. You'll work with one of our US startup partners to create the data foundation behind their product and business decisions. That means bringing scattered sources into one trusted place, keeping the data flowing reliably, and turning it into insights the team can act on. This isn't a back-office pipelines role. You'll work side by side with product and business leaders. You'll need to understand what the company is trying to achieve and why each dataset matters. Then you'll use that context to decide what to build next.

## What You'll Do

- Design, build, and own ETL/ELT pipelines that bring data from multiple sources (APIs, SaaS tools, CRMs, transactional databases) into Snowflake.
- Model data in Snowflake so it's clean, trustworthy, and easy to use for analytics and product.
- Build and maintain integrations across the stack. You'll decide when to use off-the-shelf connectors and when to write custom code.
- Work directly with product and business leaders to turn vague questions into concrete data solutions.
- Use AI tools and agents to speed up your own work and to automate manual workflows for the team.
- Take ownership end to end: spot the problem, propose the solution, ship it, and keep improving it.

## What We're Looking For

- Hands-on data engineering experience. You've built production pipelines yourself, in real code (Python and SQL), not only through dashboards or notebooks.
- Strong Snowflake experience, including data modeling, performance, and cost awareness.
- Experience integrating multiple data sources and orchestrating pipelines (Airflow, dbt, Fivetran/Airbyte, or similar).
- Agentic . Experience building AI agents or LLM-powered workflows on top of company data.
- Business and product sense. You can talk with non-technical stakeholders, understand the business model, and prioritize by impact.
- Impeccable English, spoken and written. You'll work directly with a US team daily.
- Comfortable in an early-stage, ambiguous environment where you're a builder, not a ticket-taker.

## Nice to Have

- Background in startups or a founder/co-founder experience.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, testing, and version control practices for data (Git, dbt tests, data quality checks).
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

## About Katapult Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Katapult Labs is a boutique software development and team augmentation agency that provides U.S. startups with access to AI-first engineering talent based in Latin America.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Bogotá, Colombia
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Tomás Gutierrez (CEO) and Andrés Blumer (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development / IT Services & Consulting
- **Target customers**: U.S.-based startups and scale-ups (B2B, primarily SMB to Mid-Market) looking to build, augment, or scale their engineering teams.
- **Mission or purpose**: To help companies build faster and smarter by deploying top-tier, AI-augmented engineering teams from Latin America, removing the operational overhead of hiring, HR, and payroll.

## Products & Services
- **Team Augmentation**: Katapult recruits, vets, and places dedicated, full-time software engineers onto a client’s existing team. Katapult handles all payroll, HR, and legal obligations. Engineers are dedicated to a single client full-time.
- **AI-First Development Pods**: Scalable, skill-balanced pods of engineers who are trained to use modern AI tools to maximize speed-to-value, from MVP to world-class product.
- **Fractional CTO Services**: For clients who need technical leadership, Katapult’s founders (experienced, venture-backed entrepreneurs) can act as a fractional CTO, offering guidance on product strategy, technical leadership, and fundraising.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$6.0M** (Seed round led by 8VC on May 20, 2022).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 8VC (lead investor).
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown to a team of 33 employees. LinkedIn followers have grown +22.7% monthly. The company is actively hiring for roles like Staff Full-Stack Engineer and Account Executive, indicating a push to scale both delivery and sales. They are also expanding their presence in the Benelux region for business development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-Led, Startup-Native**: The founders are Colombian-American, venture-backed entrepreneurs with 15+ years of experience. They understand startup realities (pivots, timelines, fundraising) and act as an embedded partner, not a vendor.
- **AI-First Methodology**: Unlike traditional nearshore agencies, Katapult explicitly trains and deploys engineers using modern AI tools to boost delivery speed, quality, and efficiency.
- **Full Operational Wrap**: Katapult handles all recruitment, HR, legal, and payroll, allowing clients to scale up or down with minimal risk and zero admin overhead. IP and confidentiality are contractually guaranteed to the client.
- **Nearshore Advantage**: Talent is based in LATAM (primarily Colombia), offering significant cost savings over U.S. hires while operating in compatible U.S. time zones (PST +2/+3) with bilingual communication.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Delivery Engine**: Actively hiring engineers (Staff Full-Stack) to meet client demand.
- **Expanding Sales Reach**: Hiring an Account Executive focused on the Benelux region to tap into the European market.
- **Deepening AI Integration**: Continually refining their "AI-first" development approach to maintain a competitive edge in speed and quality for clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "boutique" agency run by experienced founders. The environment is likely lean, agile, and focused on high-impact work with a limited number of clients, avoiding the "body shop" feel of larger consultancies.
- **Remote-First**: All roles appear to be remote within Colombia, offering location flexibility.
- **Impact**: Engineers get to work on cutting-edge products for U.S. startups, often from MVP stage, with exposure to modern AI tooling.
- **Stability & Perks**: Engineers are on a formal payroll (not contract), with transparent hours (~160 hours/month) and benefits managed by Katapult.

## Sources
1. [katapultlabs.ai](https://www.katapultlabs.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Katapult Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/katapultlabs)
3. [Torre.ai - Katapult Labs](https://torre.ai/teams/KatapultLabs)
4. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Katapult Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/katapult-labs)

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