Engineering Manager

What you will be doing:

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Engineering Manager to join our innovative Tech Team. You will collaborate across functions, engaging in both the design and implementation of high-performance systems crucial for detecting financial risks. 

As an Engineering Manager, you will: 

• Take ownership for your team, being responsible for current team members growth and development, plus hiring and onboarding new team members 
• Foster a positive and thriving work environment that promotes innovation.
• Mentor and coach your team, maintaining a learning mindset and openness to new ideas and technologies.
• Set the direction for your team and take accountability for tech decisions. 
• Work alongside with your product counterpart, being accountable for delivery against the roadmap.
• Collaborate, both within your team and across the tribe to ensure your team’s implementation meets industry standards.
• Report to the Director of Engineering, and will work with the other Engineering Managers in the tribe.  Working as a group, you will own cross-team initiatives and improvements.

Our Tech Stack:

• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP
• Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack
• We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres, Yugabyte
• We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol
• We use modern observability solutions from Grafana Cloud and deploy our code using ArgoCD

We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers

About you

As an Engineering Manager, you will have:

• Proven experience in managing and growing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of engineering best practices, including architecture and testing.
• Proficiency in a JVM-based language.
• Experience with data-intensive applications and relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).
• Expertise in designing and building microservices.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.
• Experience collaborating with product and commercial teams.
• Your location based in Lisbon.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with AWS and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Background in startup or scale-up environments

If you are passionate about leading teams, driving technical excellence, and working in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you! Join us in creating scalable and efficient systems that make a difference in financial risk detection.

Benefits:

• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building 
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best 
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
• You will also get a new starter budget to kit out your home office 
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve 
• Annual learning budget (prorated based on start date) to drive your performance and career development