Engineering Manager

Minka builds real-time payment infrastructure: a cloud-hosted ledger and the integrations that connect banks, wallets and payment schemes to it. The systems are built in TypeScript on Node.js, with PostgreSQL, running on Kubernetes. Our clients are banks and payment networks.

You would report to the head of engineering and run engineering for our clients in Latin America. You manage the teams that build our Latin American products and their integrations with banks. Each team has a tech lead who makes the technical decisions. You make sure the teams have clear priorities, a realistic plan and the people they need.

You will:

• Plan the work with the tech leads and keep delivery dates realistic
• Set priorities with product, so engineering works on what the business needs
• Keep the issue tracker up to date
• Raise early warning for missing deadlines
• Hold 1:1s, follow each engineer's performance and satisfaction
• Hire engineers
• Help define and make sure teams follow agreed technical standards
• Introduce a process only when it saves the teams time

Requirements

• Eight or more years in software engineering, with at least four writing production backend code
• Two or more years managing engineers, including tech leads or senior engineers
• Understands complex distributed systems well enough to read code and design documents and challenge an estimate
• Has planned the work of several teams against dates agreed with a client
• Has built planning and delivery processes that the teams kept using
• Uses an issue tracker such as Linear or Jira every day
• Has hired engineers and handled underperformance
• Writes clearly for engineers and non-engineers
• Fluent Spanish and professional English

Nice to have

• Worked in payments, banking or other regulated financial systems
• Has been on call or run incidents for a production system