Engineering Manager

Accountabilities

• Lead and manage the backend engineering organization, providing direction across engineering managers and individual contributor technical leads.

• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services supporting integrations with hundreds of merchants and payment providers globally.

• Drive engineering execution and delivery, ensuring initiatives are accurately scoped, efficiently planned, and delivered to a high standard.

• Establish practices that promote high availability, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across backend systems.

• Guide architectural decisions and help build a modern, innovative engineering organization with sustainable technical foundations.

• Identify and reduce technical debt, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term system quality and maintainability.

• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering managers and technical leads, helping them grow as technical and people leaders.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to challenge existing approaches and find better ways of working.

• Support the development of a highly collaborative, innovative, and AI-focused engineering environment.

• Partner across the organization to navigate day-to-day challenges effectively and maintain strong alignment around engineering priorities.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience building and leading backend systems at scale, ideally within fintech, payments, or another complex technology environment.

• Proven experience managing and developing engineering managers, technical leads, and high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong technical understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and high-availability services.

• Experience delivering complex technical initiatives efficiently while maintaining a strong focus on quality and long-term maintainability.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and leaders, develop talent, and build strong teams while maintaining high delivery standards.

• Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to navigate complex day-to-day situations and align multiple stakeholders.

• A proactive mindset focused on continuous self-development and continuous improvement, both personally and across the teams you lead.

• Strong ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to guide architecture and engineering decisions.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile, startup environment where innovation, adaptability, and ownership are highly valued.

• Passion for emerging technologies and an interest in applying AI-focused approaches to modern engineering organizations.

Benefits:

• Vacation and additional PTO: Paid vacation time along with opportunities for additional paid time off.

• Remote work: Work remotely from anywhere.

• Health support: Financial support toward health insurance.

• Connectivity support: Financial assistance for internet and mobile phone expenses.

• Stock options: Opportunity to participate in an employee stock options program.

• Learning and development: Access to a dedicated learning and development platform.

• Multicultural environment: Join a diverse, multidisciplinary team distributed across Latin America.

• Career growth: Opportunities for professional development and a clear career path.

• Startup culture: Work in a dynamic, agile environment characterized by innovation, ownership, and rapid growth.

• High-impact work: Contribute to technology transforming digital payments and commerce across a major regional market.