Remote Engineering Manager — Java/Kotlin Backend

Banco Plata, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work from offices or remote

Healthcare coverage

Education budget

Wellness budget

Vacation policy

Job summary

Banco Plata, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of backend engineers building the systems behind our financial products. You will own the team's delivery, technical direction, and people growth, while shaping engineering culture across the department.

You'll work with product and neighboring teams to turn business goals into reliable, scalable services, with significant autonomy in architecture, priorities, and ways of working.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading a software engineering team with mentorship.
• 5+ years backend development in high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating production systems with high throughput.
• Proficiency in JVM languages (Java/Kotlin), Kubernetes and AWS.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into reliable services.
• English at B2+ for international collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers; hiring, onboarding, career development and feedback.
• Own team delivery and reliability of services; set priorities, plan roadmaps, balance scope and timelines.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for high-load distributed systems.
• Partner with product and other teams to understand needs and align on priorities.
• Improve engineering practices such as testing, observability, incident management, CI/CD.
• Contribute to department growth and hiring standards.

Skills

Leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems design

Java/Kotlin

Kubernetes

AWS

System reliability

English (B2+)

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Banco Plata, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of backend engineers building the systems behind our financial products. You will own the team's delivery, technical direction, and people growth, while shaping engineering culture across the department.

You'll work with product and neighboring teams to turn business goals into reliable, scalable services, with significant autonomy in architecture, priorities, and ways of working.