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title: 'Senior Backend Python Engineer at NewtonX'
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# Senior Backend Python Engineer at NewtonX

- **Company:** NewtonX
- **Location:** Medellín, Colombia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/newtonx/2d79cccb-b35d-4328-81bc-7f0c25ea0273

## Job description

## About NewtonX

NewtonX is a B2B insights company trusted by the world's most innovative companies to make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We combine a verified network of business professionals with AI-powered research tools to deliver research intelligence faster, more precise, and more defensible than traditional methods.

Our clients include Google, Microsoft, TikTok, DoorDash, Stripe, and Coinbase. Our research has been cited by Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, and the Wall Street Journal.

NewtonX has raised $47M from investors including Two Sigma Ventures, Third Prime, XFund, and Citi Ventures.

## The Role

As part of NewtonX's growing Medellín engineering hub, you'll design and build the fault-tolerant, modular systems that power our research platform — sophisticated APIs, large-scale queueing and streaming systems, and data processing pipelines. You'll work on a small, fast-growing engineering team (under 40 engineers) where individual contributors get in early and help shape the direction of our technology.

This role partners closely with US-based engineering leadership and cross-functional teams. Fluency and confidence in English, written and verbal, is essential — you'll participate in technical reviews, planning, and design discussions with colleagues across time zones.

## What You'll Own

Engineering & Delivery

- 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.

Technical Contribution & Growth

- Help evaluate and influence the adoption of new technologies, languages, tools, and frameworks.
- Weigh in on architectural decisions with an eye toward scalability and maintainability.
- Pair program and mentor junior engineers as part of a growing local team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with Product, Data, and US-based Engineering leadership on priorities and platform direction.
- Communicate clearly and proactively across time zones, bridging any gaps between the Medellín and US teams.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and translate business priorities into well-scoped engineering work.

## What We're Looking For

Required

- 5 years minimum 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 (e.g., 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.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Familiarity with Terraform, Cloudflare, or infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience tuning PostgreSQL performance.
- Full Stack Experience (Ideally in React)

## Why Join NewtonX

- Frontier B2B AI: Work on infrastructure powering the most sophisticated research and decision-making workflows in the world.
- High ownership from day one: Get in early on a growing regional team with real influence over technical decisions.
- Exceptional traction: Strong product-market fit with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and consulting firms.
- World-class team: Work alongside smart, driven people who are passionate about their craft.
- Growth opportunity: Join during a hypergrowth phase, with a clear path to greater scope as the Colombia team scales.

## What We Offer

- Full Time contract according to Colombian legislation (Not a contractor position)
- Competitive compensation and equity aligned to the Medellín market.
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
- A diverse, collaborative, and positive culture where we invest in and celebrate each other's success.
- Flexible work environment where we work hard but have fun (happy hours, team projects, and global retreats).

NewtonX is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

## About NewtonX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NewtonX is an end-to-end B2B market research platform that combines AI‑enabled collection and analysis with a proprietary community of verified professionals to power confident, mission‑critical decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Sascha Eder (CEO & Co‑founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Market Research / B2B Insights
- **Target customers**: Fortune 500 enterprises, MBB consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG), top market research agencies, and private equity / venture capital firms.
- **Mission statement**: “We’re on a mission to uncover world‑class knowledge.”

## Products & Services
- **NewtonX Platform**: AI‑enabled end‑to‑end market research platform that automates expert recruitment, survey design, data collection, and analysis. Includes automated analysis and visualization for instant insights.
- **Hub Researcher**: An AI‑powered research analyst tool that provides continuous, context‑aware insights for high‑stakes B2B research (new product).
- **Custom Research Services**: Bespoke qualitative and quantitative research programs, including product research, market opportunity assessment, customer research, brand & comms research, and international expansion studies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$30M** (LinkedIn estimate); total funding of **$47M**
- **Notable Investors / Partners**:
  - **Series B (2021)**: $32M led by Marbruck
  - **Series A (2019)**: $12M led by Two Sigma Ventures
  - **Seed (2017)**: $3M led by Third Prime
  - **Non‑equity assistance**: Grand Central Tech
  - **Acquisition**: Merlin Guides (2019)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **24.2% YoY** to 266 employees (LinkedIn)
  - LinkedIn follower growth of **39.6% YoY**
  - Operates in **30 countries** with a global, multilingual team (12+ languages spoken)
  - 97% of expert requests are feasible; every expert is 100% verified

## Competitive Advantages
- **Precision expert targeting**: Proprietary community of the world’s most elusive and verified B2B professionals.
- **AI‑enabled speed**: Automated collection and analysis deliver insights in days, not weeks.
- **High data quality**: SOC 2, ESOMAR, Insights Association, MRS, and BBB DPF certified.
- **Track record**: Powers insights for Fortune 500, MBB firms, and top market research companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & automation**: Scaling AI‑driven research tools (Hub Researcher) to replace slow, manual processes.
- **International expansion**: Growing presence in EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
- **Product innovation**: Building a research platform that combines human expertise with machine intelligence to reduce time‑to‑insight.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes learning, regular feedback, career path discussions, and development programs. Values include innovation, integrity, ownership, and community.
- **Remote / hybrid**: The company is based in New York with a global remote‑friendly culture; many roles list “Remote” (Indeed). Over half the team was born or has lived internationally.
- **Benefits & perks**:
  - Medical, dental, vision insurance
  - 401K with 3% match, immediate vesting
  - Paid vacation, public holidays, sick days
  - Pre‑tax commuter benefits; HSA / FSA
  - Paid parental / family leave
  - Office snacks, lunch & learns, monthly outings, bimonthly happy hours
  - Annual company retreat, volunteering, virtual social activities
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical leadership (CTO Jeremy Wood formerly co‑founded OpenStore, was engineer at Google). Active hiring for Staff Software Engineers, ML Lead, Senior Data Engineer/Analyst.
- **Employee rating**: 4.0/5 on LinkedIn (167 reviews); Culture 4.1, Career 4.0, Compensation 3.9, Work‑Life 3.8.

## Sources
1. [newtonx.com](https://www.newtonx.com/)
2. [newtonx.com/careers](https://www.newtonx.com/careers/)
3. [newtonx.com/team](https://www.newtonx.com/team/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/newtonx](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newtonx)
5. [indeed.com/cmp/Newtonx-1](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Newtonx-1)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/newtonx](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/newtonx)

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