Engineering Manager [BaF]

Plata Card is hiring an Engineering Manager for our high-impact Bring a Friend team (BaF), focusing on our flagship referral program – a key channel delivering a high volume of cost-effective new customers.

 

This role is primarily about leading and growing people rather than writing code: around 80% of your time goes to management (coaching, planning, feedback, stakeholder communication) and about 20% to hands-on technical work. In practice, that means you act as a manager and mentor for the team – developing engineers, shaping processes, and ensuring delivery quality, while still staying close enough to the codebase to make informed technical decisions and occasionally contribute to implementation.

 

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
• Shaping the architecture, design, and implementation of backend services in Golang

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 validate 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, Spain — 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