Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate a high-performing engineering team, generally comprising 8–12 engineers.

• Coach, mentor, and provide ongoing feedback to facilitate career advancement.

• Develop growth plans and nurture a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-trust environment.

• Manage performance, acknowledge contributions, and proactively address challenges.

• Assist with hiring, onboarding, and team expansion.

• Take ownership of team commitments and guarantee reliable, high-quality execution.

• Collaborate with Product teams to define roadmaps, outline work, and align priorities.

• Maintain delivery plans while proactively managing risks and dependencies.

• Eliminate obstacles and promote collaboration across teams.

• Drive operational excellence, incident response, and continual improvement.

• Ensure visibility of progress, metrics, and outcomes to all stakeholders.

• Provide technical leadership on mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems.

• Contribute to decisions regarding scalable, reliable, and maintainable architecture.

• Promote engineering best practices in testing, observability, CI/CD, AI utilization, code quality, and security.

• Assist engineers in overcoming complex technical challenges.

• Monitor system health, operational patterns, and technical risks.

• Maintain team performance, personnel development, delivery efficiency, and system reliability and availability.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years’ experience in managing engineering teams.

• Proven ability to navigate challenging stakeholder situations and maintain alignment across various functions.

• Experience in leading high-performing engineering teams and achieving results.

• Strong technical expertise, typically equivalent to a senior engineering level or higher.

• Background in managing mission-critical, high-volume transaction systems.

• Experience in balancing technical debt with reliability risks while planning safe maintenance and release cycles.

• Familiarity with agile delivery, planning, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Comfortable working in distributed, cross-functional environments.

• Clear and thoughtful communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Solid foundation in engineering best practices, including testing, observability, CI/CD, AI usage, code quality, and security.

• Ability to work approximately +/- 2 hours CET.

• Capacity to issue invoices for services as an independent contractor.

• Must pass credit, education verification, sanction and enforcement screening, employment verification, criminal, and ID checks.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the current country of residence without visa sponsorship or additional work authorization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first, globally distributed engineering organization.

• Clear and structured career development framework.

• Opportunity to work on a global, high-scale payments platform with significant real-world impact.

• Chance to lead teams addressing complex, meaningful challenges in fintech.

• Opportunity to influence engineering culture, processes, and methodologies at scale.

• Career advancement opportunities.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.