Senior Engineering Manager Payments

A little bit about us:

We are Belvo, an open finance API platform with the bold vision of democratizing access to financial services in Latin America. We enable any financial innovator to access and interpret financial data, as well as initiate payments from their end-users accounts. We’re turning the messy complexities of the Latin American financial ecosystem into a modern set of tools to access and interpret data and move money in a seamless and secure way.

We’re a highly-technical, passionate, and driven team. We are more than 90 people and our team currently represents 20 nationalities. We have offices in São Paulo and Mexico City – while a large portion of us work remotely.

We are tackling a very stimulating problem: connecting fintech innovators with legacy financial infrastructure. We strive to go beyond the limits of what is possible today and to do so in an elegant and developer-first way.

Since starting our adventure in May 2019, we have raised $71m from the leading VC investors globally.

You can read more about our company here and about our team and culture here. Also, head to our blog for more news about what we’re building and how we work.

About the team:

• We work in cross-functional, autonomous teams. We follow continuous delivery best practices executed on top of a modern technology stack. 

• Our products are built for developers, by developers. Technological excellence is at the heart of what we do.  

• We are pragmatic and customer-focused. We strive to find the right set of trade-offs in order to validate our hypothesis as early as possible, iterating on our products based on customer feedback. 

• We communicate transparently. We do weekly all-hands where we get together to discuss company performance and goals.

• While we are global and remote-friendly, we also operate from our vibrant offices in CDMX and Sao Paulo. To accommodate the various time zones in which we are based, we ensure we’re always synced up for at least 3 hours per day.

• Also, we are backed by some of the leading investors in Silicon Valley and Latin America, including Founders Fund, Kaszek Ventures, and YCombinator.
  

Your opportunity:

We're looking for a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager to lead one of our Payments teams. This is a team that has the goal of building a payments platform for the Mexico market. This product is showing strong traction and we need someone that can work at a fast pace, in a high growth product.

As a senior engineering manager, your main areas of focus are your team, its people, their performance, wellbeing and the processes that surround that team. We are looking for people with a strong technical background and track record, who are able to lead, coordinate and coach an already stellar engineering team.

• Coach first, player second. You are a force multiplier for your team and have a passion for team and team members’ success.

• Drive and the execution and delivery of features and new products.

• Set objectives, follow performance and provide feedback.

• Team happiness, wellbeing and productivity.

• Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams.

• Partner with Product Managers on objectives, priorities, tradeoffs and risk.

• We don’t establish a fixed hands-on/off split, but we encourage you to to keep coding to keep your technical acumen sharp and to have a solid understanding of the technical challenges that your team faces.

• Participate in technical decisions, contributing your technical knowledge as well as your strategic and planning inputs.

• Establish processes and address growing pains during high-growth phases.

• Participating in architecture discussions and planning.

• Ability to act as Tech Lead and be more hands-on when required.

• Maintain and foster our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity.
  

This position may be for you if:

• 4+ years of experience in engineering leadership and people management

• Experience working in a startup environment

• Past experience as a senior individual contributor.

• Well rounded technical skills and ability to contribute to deeply technical discussions.

• Experience recruiting and growing a team, in a context of rapid change and fast growth.

• Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications and build a solid execution plan for your team.

• Strong project management skills. At Belvo the EM is responsible for both planning and execution.

• Experience using AI-powered tools and frameworks to support software development, testing, or automation

• Experience in payments processing technologies and vendors in the Mexican market.

• You speak advanced English and Spanish.
  

Amazing if:

• Experience building large-scale platforms with a global reach

• Experience balancing fast got-to-market in regulated environments

• Do you have experience working in a startup environment?

• You have leveraged AI to fundamentally change the way you work and / or build amazing projects

Our tech stack:

• We’re building our platform using modern technologies, putting the focus on reliability and long-term maintainability

• We primarily use Python on the backend. We use battle-tested technologies such as Django, and we are heavy users of Python’s asyncio for some parts of our stack

• We use Javascript, Vue.js and Sass on the frontend. We are developing and leveraging our own design system and component library

• We run our infrastructure on top of Amazon Web Services, leveraging managed services. We tend to favor the use of managed services wherever possible, in order to focus on our business problems

• We observe and monitor our services using Datadog

• We follow Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices

Our process steps:

At Belvo every hire is so important to us, that we share the decision to hire as a team.

• People team chat

• Take-home challenge

• Challenge presentation

• Team fit chat

• Meet the founders

Our perks:

🚀 Stock options (we are all owners and this is very important to us)

📈 Annual company bonus linked to company performance

🔆 Flexible working hours

🔝 Remote friendly

🐶 Pet friendly

👩🏻‍⚕️ Health Insurance

🎊 Paid time off on your birthday

💻 Renew your laptop every 3 years

🙋 Training Budget

😎 Team building events

🙀 Bank holidays swap within 30 days

🔋 Fitness/ wellness stipends

🚀 Yearly company offsite

🍒 Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee

🏝 Extra days off when completing company anniversary

🎳 Yearly department offsite