LatAm Payments Platform Engineering Manager

minka_; Bogotá ciudad; On-site; COP 180,000,000 - 280,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Minka builds real-time payment infrastructure with a cloud-hosted ledger and integrations to connect banks and payment schemes. You will report to the head of engineering and run engineering for our clients in Latin America, guiding teams that build Latin American products and their bank integrations.

Each team has a tech lead who makes technical decisions. You will plan work with tech leads, set priorities with product, and ensure realistic delivery dates while keeping stakeholders informed

Qualifications

• Eight or more years in software engineering with production backend code experience.
• Two+ years managing engineers, including tech leads or senior engineers.
• Able to read code and design documents and challenge estimates.
• Experience planning across multiple teams against client dates.
• Experience building planning and delivery processes used by teams.
• Daily use of an issue tracker (Linear or Jira).
• Experience hiring engineers and handling underperformance.
• Fluent Spanish and professional English.

Responsibilities

• Plan the work with tech leads and keep delivery dates realistic.
• Set priorities with product so engineering aligns with business needs.
• Keep the issue tracker up to date and transparent.
• Raise early warning for missing deadlines and blockers.
• Hold 1:1s and monitor engineer performance and satisfaction.
• Hire engineers and grow the team as needed.
• Define and enforce technical standards across teams.
• Introduce processes only when they save time and improve outcomes.

Skills

Team leadership

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Software architecture

English proficiency

Tools

Jira

Linear

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Minka builds real-time payment infrastructure with a cloud-hosted ledger and integrations to connect banks and payment schemes. You will report to the head of engineering and run engineering for our clients in Latin America, guiding teams that build Latin American products and their bank integrations.

Each team has a tech lead who makes technical decisions. You will plan work with tech leads, set priorities with product, and ensure realistic delivery dates while keeping stakeholders informed