Engineering Manager - LATAM

We are currently partnering with a high-growth technology business to appoint an experienced Engineering Manager to join an expanding engineering function. This is a key leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys operating in a fast-moving environment and wants to play a central role in shaping both technical direction and team culture.

Our client is seeking a hands-on engineering leader who can support delivery, coach engineers, and contribute to architectural thinking and longer-term strategy. This role would suit someone who is passionate about building scalable platforms, leading strong teams, and delivering meaningful product outcomes across complex financial systems.
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The Opportunity

As Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers working on business-critical platform initiatives within a regulated product environment. You will work closely with product and cross-functional stakeholders to drive delivery, support team growth, and help establish strong engineering practices.
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Key Responsibilities

People Leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous development.
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Technical Direction
Support architectural decisions and technical planning, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and aligned to wider business and product objectives.
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Delivery Management
Partner with product managers and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality features and enhancements in a timely and effective way.
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Team Growth
Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and team development, helping to build a high-performing and well-balanced engineering function.
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Engineering Standards
Promote strong software engineering practices across reliability, observability, incident management, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
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Continuous Improvement
Encourage regular reflection and process improvement to help the team evolve in line with business needs and customer expectations.
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About You

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the following:
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Leadership Experience
Significant experience in software engineering, including several years in technical leadership or engineering management roles. Individuals with a strong senior engineering background and relevant domain expertise will also be considered.
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Sector Knowledge
Previous experience within payments, card-based products, fintech, or other highly regulated transaction environments would be highly beneficial.
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Technical Background
Strong understanding of backend engineering, API-led services, distributed systems, and cloud-based architecture. Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments and serverless applications would be advantageous.
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Data & Persistence
Good knowledge of relational database design and data-driven applications, ideally across cloud-hosted SQL environments and modern ORM tools.
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Commercial Mindset
Comfortable working in scaling or fast-evolving businesses, with the ability to make pragmatic decisions and balance pace with engineering quality.
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Leadership Style
A collaborative and motivated leader who brings ownership, sound judgement, and a people-first approach to building successful teams.
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Likely Technology Environment

While the exact stack may vary, the environment is expected to include a mix of the following:
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• Cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS
• Backend development using TypeScript and Node.js
• Frameworks such as NestJS
• Serverless and event-driven architecture
• SQL-based databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
• ORM technologies including tools such as Prisma or similar

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