Engineering Manager - Golang [Origination Delivery]

Remote, Vietnam · Full-time (Posted 1 month ago)

Remote working
Golang
Engineering Manager
Manager Level

Plata Card is hiring an Engineering Manager for our Colombia Origination Delivery team — a key initiative focused on scaling our product platform in Colombia by building on top of the proven solutions already established in Mexico.

Your mission is to ensure strong and sustainable engineering delivery in Colombia: extending and adapting the existing platform, maintaining high development velocity, and building a high-performing local team aligned with global standards.

This is a hands-on leadership role, where you combine people management with technical involvement. You will act as a manager and mentor for the team — developing engineers, shaping processes, and ensuring delivery quality, while staying close to the codebase to make informed technical decisions and contribute when needed.

Challenges that await you

Lead the team: manage delivery, prioritize new features demanded by product teams, while contributing to development as needed
Develop talents: provide feedback, enable growth for colleagues, support the team, and mentor
Strengthen the team: reinforce for scaling, ensure smooth rotations with mobile squads, and foster a healthy, non-burnout culture
Overseeing team performance, ensuring on-time project delivery aligned with business goals
Solving complex challenges and ensuring high-quality solutions
Implementing and evolving backend services in Golang, closely aligned with the platform Delivery team's architectural direction

What makes you a great fit

1+ years of experience managing small engineering teams (5-8 people) in fast-paced settings, preferably fintech with Go stack
Hiring, development, performance, and delivery management and strong skills in cross-functional collaboration and the ability to build partnerships
A strong technical background and development experience, enabling you to participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the team's technical solutions
4+ years of experience as a Go developer
Experience in building and optimizing development processes (planning, decomposition, retrospectives)
Diplomacy and the ability to advocate for your position and the team's interests with well-reasoned arguments

Our ways of working

Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions
Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication
Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community
Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together
High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances

Our benefits

Relocation support to one of our hubs — Cyprus, Serbia, Georgia — with assistance for the employee and their family
Flexible work from one of our offices or remote
Healthcare Coverage
Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications
Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements
Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave

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This job is open to Vietnamese candidates only

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Plata

Plata is a high-tech Mexican financial platform authorized with a Banking license. Plata’s promise in Mexico is to raise the standards of financial products and services through innovation, excellence in customer service, and greater benefits for people's money. Plata is on the mission to transform the Mexican financial experience by overcoming the limitations of traditional banking. Backed by its own technology, Plata offers a simpler, safer, and more efficient financial experience.

With a team of over 3,000 employees, Plata has developed its own banking infrastructure and works with the support of AI, which allows the company to make a difference in the financial landscape. In two and a half years of operations in Mexico, Plata has achieved 2.5 million active customers of its credit product.