Software Engineering Manager

Job Description:

• Hire, onboard, and grow engineers across different levels
• Run effective 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Coach engineers in technical and soft skills
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and motivating team culture
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and with quality
• Oversee sprint rituals, including planning, standups, and retrospectives, from a manager’s perspective
• Identify and remove blockers, improve workflows, and refine processes
• Partner with PMs and Designers to set priorities and align on goals
• Guide architectural and technical decisions without daily coding
• Ensure best practices in testing, monitoring, scalability, and security
• Review designs and mentor senior engineers
• Bridge leadership priorities and engineering execution
• Translate product and business goals into engineering strategy
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
• Participate in budgeting and headcount planning
• Represent engineering in leadership and cross-functional discussions

Requirements:

• Strong empathy, emotional intelligence, and communication skills
• Experience in coaching, mentorship, and conflict resolution
• Ability to create trust and psychological safety
• Solid grasp of Agile, Kanban, or Lean practices
• Familiarity with prioritization frameworks (OKRs, RICE, ICE)
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and managing expectations
• Proven ability to hire and build great teams
• Solid background in software engineering and systems design
• Ability to evaluate technical proposals and make informed trade-offs
• Familiarity with infrastructure, scalability, observability, and reliability
• Understanding of CI/CD, testing practices, and incident response
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to business impact
• Strong judgment in balancing speed vs. quality, features vs. tech debt
• Comfort communicating trade-offs and risks to executives
• 5+ years of engineering experience, with 2+ years in management or tech lead roles
• Proven experience managing teams of 5–15 engineers
• Background in fintech, SaaS, or other high-scale environments is a plus
• Fluency in English and Spanish/Portuguese is a strong plus

Benefits:

• Phantom Share Program for eligible team members; performance-based incentive aligned with the company’s long-term success and value creation