Senior Engineer Manager
Description
Company Overview:
Global Technology Services is a rapidly expanding organization situated in Medellín, Colombia. We pride ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with expansive engineering teams across Latin America, Philippines and the United States, contributing to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.
Position Title: Senior Engineer Manager
Location: LATAM
What you will be doing:
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to lead a high-performing software engineering team responsible for building scalable, reliable, and customer-focused products. This role combines technical leadership, people management, agile delivery ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
The ideal candidate is a servant leader who excels at empowering teams, fostering accountability, and creating predictable delivery outcomes while maintaining a strong technical foundation in modern software architecture, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and software development best practices.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through coaching, feedback, and career growth initiatives.
- Foster a culture of servant leadership, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Create an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering environment.
- Support team members in taking on new responsibilities and expanding their technical and leadership capabilities.
- Help establish and maintain a diverse and inclusive engineering organization.
- Drive team predictability through effective Agile and SCRUM practices.
- Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Partner with Product and Design teams to prioritize work and ensure alignment between sprint commitments and business objectives.
- Utilize agile metrics such as velocity, burndown charts, throughput, and capacity planning to forecast delivery and manage risks.
- Remove blockers and enable teams to deliver consistently across changing priorities.
- Promote Lean, Agile, and Kanban methodologies where appropriate.
- Own significant portions of the product and influence both technical and product strategy.
- Guide architecture and design decisions across distributed and cloud-native systems.
- Advocate for engineering excellence, maintainability, scalability, and operational reliability.
- Champion Continuous Improvement initiatives and technical modernization efforts.
- Ensure adherence to software development best practices, coding standards, testing strategies, and architectural principles.
- Support technical decision-making through collaboration and consensus-building across teams.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and delivering software products and services.
- Experience with C# or Java development and (.NET & Sprintboot) in each case.
- 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
- Proven experience implementing servant leadership principles and building high-performing teams.
- Strong experience facilitating Agile/SCRUM ceremonies and driving predictable software delivery.
- Demonstrated success using agile metrics to improve forecasting, transparency, and accountability.
- Experience with distributed systems: design, caching, CQRS, message-driven and large-scale processing.
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
- Proficiency in cloud-based systems: hybrid on-prem, Lambdas, elastic scaling, resiliency.
- Experienced in using JIRA, building dashboards, managing sprints, and using Jira plugins for data manipulation and observation.
- Be Fluent in English and Portuguese.
Soft Skills
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong servant leadership mindset.
- Ability to influence technical and business decisions across teams.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills.
- Strong conflict resolution and coaching abilities.
- Strategic thinker with strong execution capabilities.
- Adaptability and comfort operating in evolving environments.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and building healthy engineering cultures.
Why you will love GTS:
- Join a powerful tech workforce and help us change the world through technology
- Professional development opportunities with international customers
- Collaborative work environment
- Career path and mentorship programs that will lead to new levels.
Join Lean Tech and contribute to shaping the data landscape within a dynamic and growing organization. Your skills will be honed, and your contributions will play a vital role in our continued success.
Lean Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.