Role Description As a Tech Lead, you will play a strategic role, serving as a technical reference and team leader. This position requires a balance between technical expertise, people leadership, and project management. - Define team objectives and project goals, ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives. - Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes. - Actively participate in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment. - Collaborate with other technical leaders, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction. - Ensure the technical quality of deliverables, providing guidance and support in solving complex problems. - Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices within your squad and chapter. - Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team. - Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure technical initiatives are properly scoped and prioritized within the product backlog. - Ensure implementation of quality and observability standards across the development lifecycle. - Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights. - Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities. - Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities. Qualifications - Academic background oriented toward computer science, engineering, or software development disciplines. - Proven track record of leading teams and working in product-driven companies. - Hands-on experience in backend (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS) and optionally frontend development. - Experience in Python is a plus. - Experience with asynchronous programming. - Experience working with domains of medium to high complexity. - A solid understanding of how web and mobile applications work including security, session management, and best development practices. - Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming. - Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and experience designing or maintaining microservices-based systems. - Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web and mobile technologies and techniques. - Practical experience applying AI frameworks in development projects. - Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience with agile methodologies. - Advanced Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills. - Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Competence in defining clear objectives and ensuring the team meets project milestones. - Experience guiding and leading teams to successful project deliveries within deadlines and budgets. - Ability to evaluate and prioritize technical work based on business value, system health, and long-term platform goals. - Experience conducting code reviews, driving knowledge sharing, and promoting collaborative development practices. - Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams. - Active contribution to aligning technological strategies with broader organizational objectives. Soft Skills - Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product Managers, Product Owners, Squad Leaders, Designers, and other teams. - Experience mentoring engineers, guiding career development, and fostering a growth-oriented, high-performance team environment. - Capacity to make thoughtful, context-aware decisions that balance technical debt, delivery speed, and business impact. - Ability to recognize team dynamics, support team members through challenges, and cultivate psychological safety. - Proactive in owning outcomes, addressing blockers, and ensuring that the squad delivers on commitments. - Comfortable working in changing environments, reprioritizing as needed, and adjusting to new business or technical demands. - Skilled in managing disagreements constructively and promoting consensus through dialogue. - Capable of influencing product and technical decisions at squad level and beyond. - Oriented toward retrospectives, feedback loops, and implementing process and culture improvements. - High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving. - Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels. - Ability to make decisions based on accurate information, technical indicators, and impact metrics. Industry-Specific Knowledge - Practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains, such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring, or investment services. - Leverage knowledge to guide the technical implementation of backend solutions. - Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders in defining priorities and making trade-offs. - Translate domain-specific requirements into actionable tasks. - Mentor engineers to understand the business context behind their work. - Ensure the team delivers solutions that are robust, compliant, and aligned with customer needs. - Help the squad connect technical work with revenue, performance, and user experience outcomes. Benefits - Competitive and market-aligned salary. - Annual bonus. - Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team! - Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app. - Health and dental plans with no co-pay. - Life insurance. - Flexible meal allowance (via Flash). - TotalPass membership to take care of your health.