Technical Lead Manager

Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives

Align with product — Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work

Communicate up — Represent the squad in planning, cross-team syncs, and leadership discussions

4+ years in software engineering

1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)

Strong technical background—you can guide architecture discussions and code reviews

Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability

Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog

Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp

Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging

Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices

Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality

Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback

Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow

Servant leadership mindset—you enable others to do their best work

Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture

Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership

Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback

Fluent in Spanish; working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration

Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities

Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade-offs with incomplete information

Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence

Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth startups

Background scaling or building teams from scratch

Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices

On-call and incident management experience

Java/Spring, Python, Go · Angular, React · PostgreSQL, MongoDB · AWS (ECS, Lambda) · DataDog · Pulumi · Jenkins

Our mission is to empower financial access and opportunity across Latin America through fair, simple, and transparent solutions. Our tech vision: be the most beloved and innovative tech organization in Latin America.

We're a Series B fintech growing fast—you'll build and lead a team that ships products reaching millions of customers.

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