About the Role We're looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead a squad of 4–8 engineers. This is a player‑coach role: you will stay hands‑on technically (40–60% IC work) while owning your team's delivery, quality, and people development. At this level you are the first‑line manager for your squad — running 1:1s, giving feedback, coaching careers, and building a culture of ownership and psychological safety. You also stay in the code, making technical decisions and shipping alongside your team. What You'll Do People & Team (40–60%) Build the team — Hire and onboard E1–E3 engineers Develop your people — Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, write performance reviews, and coach career growth Foster culture — Build psychological safety, ownership, and accountability within the squad Shield the team — Remove blockers, handle noise, and keep the squad focused on delivery Technical (40–60%) Stay hands‑on — Write code, review PRs, and contribute to technical decisions Own delivery — Ensure the squad delivers on commitments with high quality and predictable velocity Drive quality — Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices Handle incidents — Own squad‑level incidents and postmortems Leverage AI — Use AI tools daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging; teach the squad effective AI usage Planning & Alignment Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives Align with product — Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work Communicate up — Represent the squad in planning, cross‑team syncs, and leadership discussions Experience What We're Looking For 4+ years in software engineering 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal) Technical Strong technical background — guide architecture discussions and code reviews Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp AI Fluency Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality Leadership & People Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow Servant leadership mindset — you enable others to do their best work Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture Communication Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback Fluent in Spanish; working knowledge of English for cross‑team collaboration Mindset Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade‑offs with incomplete information Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence Nice to Have Experience in fintech, payments, or high‑growth startups Background scaling or building teams from scratch Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices On‑call and incident management experience Our Stack Java/Spring, Python, Go Angular, React PostgreSQL, MongoDB AWS (ECS, Lambda) DataDog Pulumi Jenkins Aplazo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sex, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, social or economic status, sexual preferences, or any other condition or characteristic. Selection is based solely on the qualifications and merits of the candidates. #J-18808-Ljbffr