Software Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers at various levels.

• Conduct effective one-on-one meetings, performance evaluations, and discussions on career development.

• Provide coaching to engineers in both technical and interpersonal skills.

• Cultivate a healthy, inclusive, and inspiring team culture.

• Ensure timely delivery of projects with a focus on quality.

• Manage sprint rituals, including planning, daily standups, and retrospectives from a managerial viewpoint.

• Identify and eliminate obstacles, enhance workflows, and refine processes.

• Collaborate with Project Managers and Designers to establish priorities and align on objectives.

• Steer architectural and technical decisions without engaging in daily coding.

• Maintain best practices in testing, monitoring, scalability, and security.

• Review designs and provide mentorship to senior engineers.

• Connect leadership priorities with engineering execution.

• Convert product and business objectives into engineering strategies.

• Balance immediate delivery with long-term sustainability.

• Engage in budgeting and headcount planning activities.

• Represent the engineering team in leadership and cross-functional conversations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong empathy, emotional intelligence, and effective communication skills.

• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and resolving conflicts.

• Ability to foster trust and psychological safety within the team.

• Comprehensive understanding of Agile, Kanban, or Lean methodologies.

• Familiarity with prioritization frameworks such as OKRs, RICE, and ICE.

• Proven experience in collaborating with stakeholders and managing expectations.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit and build exceptional teams.

• Strong background in software engineering and systems design.

• Capacity to assess technical proposals and make informed trade-offs.

• Knowledge of infrastructure, scalability, observability, and reliability principles.

• Understanding of CI/CD processes, testing practices, and incident response strategies.

• Ability to link engineering decisions to business outcomes.

• Strong judgment in balancing speed versus quality and features versus technical debt.

• Comfort in communicating trade-offs and risks to executive leadership.

• Over 5 years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in management or technical lead positions.

• Proven experience managing teams of 5 to 15 engineers.

• Background in fintech, SaaS, or other high-scale environments is an advantage.

• Fluency in English and Spanish or Portuguese is a significant plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible team members have the opportunity to participate in R2’s Phantom Share Program, a performance-based incentive aligned with the company’s long-term success and value creation.