Responsibilities
- Lead one of our Payments teams
- Build a payments platform for the Mexico market
- Focus on your team, its people, their performance, wellbeing and the processes
- Lead, coordinate and coach an already stellar engineering team
- Coach first, player second
- Be a force multiplier for your team and have a passion for team and team members’ success
- Drive and the execution and delivery of features and new products
- Set objectives, follow performance and provide feedback
- Ensure team happiness, wellbeing and productivity
- Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
- Partner with Product Managers on objectives, priorities, tradeoffs and risk
- Keep coding to keep your technical acumen sharp and to have a solid understanding of the technical challenges that your team faces
- Participate in technical decisions, contributing your technical knowledge as well as your strategic and planning inputs
- Establish processes and address growing pains during high-growth phases
- Participate in architecture discussions and planning
- Ability to act as Tech Lead and be more hands-on when required
- Maintain and foster our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in engineering leadership and people management
- Experience working in a startup environment
- Past experience as a senior individual contributor
- Well rounded technical skills and ability to contribute to deeply technical discussions
- Experience recruiting and growing a team, in a context of rapid change and fast growth
- Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications and build a solid execution plan for your team
- Strong project management skills
- Experience using AI-powered tools and frameworks to support software development, testing, or automation
- Speak advanced English and Spanish
- Experience working in the fintech sector
Nice to Have
- Experience building large-scale platforms with a global reach
- Experience balancing fast got-to-market in regulated environments
- Have leveraged AI to fundamentally change the way you work and / or build amazing projects
- Experience in payments processing technologies and vendors in the Mexican market
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — São Paulo, Mexico City
Additional Information
- Language requirements: advanced English and Spanish
- Flexible working hours
- Remote friendly
- Pet friendly
- Health Insurance
- Paid time off on your birthday
- Renew your laptop every 3 years
- Training Budget
- Team building events
- Bank holidays swap within 30 days
- Fitness/ wellness stipends
- Yearly company offsite
- Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
- Extra days off when completing company anniversary
- Yearly department offsite