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Minka

Engineering Manager

Minka Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia

Financial Services · 11-50 employees

4 d ago
Remote engineering-manager Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time Croatia
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About the role

You will manage engineering teams building payment products for Latin American clients, ensuring clear priorities and realistic delivery plans. You are responsible for hiring, performance management, and maintaining technical standards while collaborating with product teams.

What they look for

Engineering Management TypeScript Node.js PostgreSQL Kubernetes Distributed Systems Team Leadership Project Planning Payment Infrastructure Banking Systems Stakeholder Management Hiring Performance Management Technical Standards Issue Tracking Spanish

Requirements

Candidates must have over 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in management and 4 years in backend development. Proficiency in Spanish and English is required, along with experience in complex distributed systems and planning for multiple teams.

Full description

Minka builds real-time payment infrastructure: a cloud-hosted ledger and the integrations that connect banks, wallets and payment schemes to it. The systems are built in TypeScript on Node.js, with PostgreSQL, running on Kubernetes. Our clients are banks and payment networks.

You would report to the head of engineering and run engineering for our clients in Latin America. You manage the teams that build our Latin American products and their integrations with banks. Each team has a tech lead who makes the technical decisions. You make sure the teams have clear priorities, a realistic plan and the people they need.

You will:

  • Plan the work with the tech leads and keep delivery dates realistic
  • Set priorities with product, so engineering works on what the business needs
  • Keep the issue tracker up to date
  • Raise early warning for missing deadlines
  • Hold 1:1s, follow each engineer's performance and satisfaction
  • Hire engineers
  • Help define and make sure teams follow agreed technical standards
  • Introduce a process only when it saves the teams time
  • 10 or more years in software engineering, with at least four writing production backend code
  • 4 or more years managing engineers, including tech leads or senior engineers
  • Understands complex distributed systems well enough to read code and design documents and challenge an estimate
  • Has planned the work of several teams against dates agreed with a client
  • Has built planning and delivery processes that the teams kept using
  • Uses an issue tracker such as Linear or Jira every day
  • Has hired engineers and handled underperformance
  • Writes clearly for engineers and non-engineers
  • Fluent Spanish and professional English

Nice to have

  • Worked in payments, banking or other regulated financial systems
  • Has been on call or run incidents for a production system

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