Engineering Manager (Java/Kotlin Stack)

platacard; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support to Cyprus/Georgia/"

Flexible work from office or remote

Healthcare coverage and wellness

Job summary

platacard is seeking a backend engineering leader to guide a team responsible for financial services. You will own delivery, technical direction and engineers’ development, blending hands-on architectural judgment with people leadership and close planning with product partners.

You’ll hire, mentor, set roadmaps, design high-throughput distributed systems, and ensure reliability and cost efficiency. English at B2 level or higher is required; remote or office work is supported with relocation

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams and growing the team.
• 5+ years backend development in high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating production systems with reliability and throughput.
• Familiar with Java or Kotlin, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Strong understanding of resilient services (microservices, messaging, data storage).
• Product-oriented judgment; English at B2 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, mentor and support engineers through feedback and career development.
• Set team priorities and roadmaps, balancing quality, delivery scope and timelines.
• Guide architecture for high-throughput distributed systems and decisions for current needs and future growth.
• Work with product, engineering peers and stakeholders to align on requirements and service expectations.
• Improve practices for code quality, testing, observability, incident response and continuous delivery.
• Contribute to hiring standards and shared engineering practices across the department.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend development

Java/Kotlin

Kubernetes

AWS

Distributed systems

English B2+

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Java/Kotlin

Microservices

Job description

Role overview

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for financial services, with ownership of delivery, technical direction and engineers’ development. The role combines hands-on architectural judgment with people leadership and close planning with product and engineering partners to build dependable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, mentor and support engineers through feedback and career development.
• Set team priorities and roadmaps, balancing quality, delivery scope and timelines.
• Guide architecture for high-throughput distributed systems and make decisions that meet current needs while supporting future growth.
• Work with product, engineering peers and stakeholders to align on requirements and service expectations.
• Improve practices for code quality, testing, observability, incident response and continuous delivery.
• Contribute to hiring standards and shared engineering practices across the department.

Requirements

• At least 3 years leading software engineering teams and supporting team growth.
• At least 5 years of backend development, including robust, high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating production systems with demanding reliability and throughput needs.
• Familiarity with Java or Kotlin, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Strong understanding of resilient services, including microservices, messaging and data storage.
• Product-oriented judgment that connects technical choices to cost, reliability and delivery speed; English proficiency at B2 level or higher.

Nice to have

• Go experience, or background in fintech, banking or another regulated, high-volume environment.
• Experience with payments, third-party API integrations, event-driven systems, or scaling teams across multiple groups.

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible work from an office or remotely, with relocation support to Cyprus, Georgia or Spain for employees and their families.
• Healthcare coverage, education and wellness budgets, and annual leave and paid sick leave under applicable policies.