Space Inch is looking for an Engineering Engagement Lead to look after our engineers within a long-standing partnership with one of the largest investment managers in the U.S, who is a S&P; 500 company . Our engineers work embedded in the client’s teams, and the client directs their day-to-day work. Your job is everything around that work: making sure each engineer meets Space Inch’s standards, understanding what they’re building and why it matters to the client’s business, helping them grow, and keeping communication clear between our people and the client.

This is a people, communication, and account role , which means that you won’t assign tasks, run sprints, or make architecture decisions. An engineering background is a preference, but it’s not a disqualifying criteria. What really matters is an engineer’s mindset : you can sit down with an engineer or a client’s engineering manager, understand what’s being built, and have a real conversation about it.

Our mission, vision, and values

At Space Inch, we prioritize alignment with our clients and team, ensuring a deep understanding of their needs. We are committed to delivering exceptional work while supporting the personal and professional growth of our team members.

Working at Space Inch

- Our remote-first team of around 80+ people is based across the EU (mostly Croatia), the US, and Latin America, with a growing presence in Brazil.
- Occasional travel for client visits and company retreats.
- This role is embedded within a single long-standing client partnership, though you'll draw on Space Inch's broader engineering community and practices.




- We support work/life balance for our team.

Requirements

- Experience : 10+ years in engineering and people leadership, engagement or account management, or technical project/product management in an agency, consultancy, nearshore, or client-embedded environment; preferably coming from an engineering background, but not a must.
- An engineer’s mindset : you understand modern software development (SDLC, common architectures and stacks) well enough to follow what engineers are building, hold your own with client engineering and product managers, and notice when something is off. You don’t need to write code.
- Real curiosity about the client’s business : you invest the time to learn the domain, why each application matters, and what workflow it replaces, so client stakeholders see you as someone who adds value.
- A clear system for evaluating people : you can explain how you know someone is doing a great job, using standards, evidence, and feedback from several sources, and how you turn that into specific, actionable coaching.
- Exceptional communicator and mediator who handles sensitive topics (compensation, retention, disengagement, underperformance) directly and with care, across written, async, live, and cross-cultural communication.




- Proven track record of growing engineers : you’ve guided engineers along their career paths, from junior to senior and from individual contributor toward leadership, built development plans that led to real promotions, and can point to people who grew under your leadership.
- Experience managing senior client stakeholders : gathering honest feedback, managing expectations, and showing the value our people bring.
- Practical fluency with AI as a working tool : you can assess whether engineers are using AI well against defined practices and push them to improve.
- Experience leading distributed or remote people, including those who work mostly on their own.

Key responsibilities

- Evaluation against our standards : Regularly assess every engineer and project against Space Inch’s project success standards, and whether we’re meeting both the client’s needs and our team members’ needs.
- Client feedback loop : Work with the client’s engineering and product managers to gather feedback on each engineer, including quality of work, taking into account how each client team operates.
- Coaching and growth : Run regular 1:1s, give candid feedback, and build development plans that help engineers level up. Work with Engineering Leads, who coach informally, to round out evaluations.
- Retention and connection : Keep engineers engaged and connected to Space Inch, especially those working alone on client projects. Spot retention risks early and resolve them.
- Coaching and career growth : Run regular 1:1s, give candid feedback, and build development p

📌 Engineering Engagement Lead (Argentina)
🏢 Space Inch
📍 Argentina