Aplazo is a fast-growing fintech company aiming to empower financial access across Latin America. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers while being hands-on with ...
Aplazo
2 jobs near Columbus, OH
Aplazo is a fast-growing fintech company aiming to empower financial access across Latin America. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers while being hands-on with ...
Lead Backend Engineer
Mobile, AL · On-site
Aplazo is a company focused on empowering financial access and innovation in Latin America. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable backend systems that support their merchant ...
Lead Backend Engineer
Mobile, AL · On-site
Aplazo is a company focused on empowering financial access and innovation in Latin America. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable backend systems that support their merchant ...
Full-time
Re-posted 4 days ago
Job description
Job Summary:
Aplazo is a fast-growing fintech company aiming to empower financial access across Latin America. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers while being hands-on with coding and technical decision-making. The role involves managing team dynamics, ensuring quality delivery, and leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.
Responsibilities:
• Build the team — Hire and onboard E1–E3 engineers
• Develop your people — Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, write performance reviews, and coach career growth
• Foster culture — Build psychological safety, ownership, and accountability within the squad
• Shield the team — Remove blockers, handle noise, and keep the squad focused on delivery
• Stay hands-on — Write code, review PRs, and contribute to technical decisions
• Own delivery — Ensure the squad delivers on commitments with high quality and predictable velocity
• Drive quality — Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices
• Handle incidents — Own squad-level incidents and postmortems
• Leverage AI — Use AI tools daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging; teach the squad effective AI usage
• Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work
• Represent the squad in planning, cross-team syncs, and leadership discussions
Qualifications:
Required:
• 4+ years in software engineering
• 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)
• Strong technical background—you can guide architecture discussions and code reviews
• Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability
• Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog
• Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp
• Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging
• Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices
• Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality
• Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback
• Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow
• Servant leadership mindset—you enable others to do their best work
• Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture
• Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership
• Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback
• Fluent in Spanish; working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration
• Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities
• Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade-offs with incomplete information
• Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence
Preferred:
• Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth startups
• Background scaling or building teams from scratch
• Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices
• On-call and incident management experience
Company:
Aplazo is a payment network that offers payment solutions and merchant tools to help merchants sell more and grow their brands. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Mexico City, MEX, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.
Aplazo is a fast-growing fintech company aiming to empower financial access across Latin America. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers while being hands-on with coding and technical decision-making. The role involves managing team dynamics, ensuring quality delivery, and leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.
Responsibilities:
• Build the team — Hire and onboard E1–E3 engineers
• Develop your people — Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, write performance reviews, and coach career growth
• Foster culture — Build psychological safety, ownership, and accountability within the squad
• Shield the team — Remove blockers, handle noise, and keep the squad focused on delivery
• Stay hands-on — Write code, review PRs, and contribute to technical decisions
• Own delivery — Ensure the squad delivers on commitments with high quality and predictable velocity
• Drive quality — Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices
• Handle incidents — Own squad-level incidents and postmortems
• Leverage AI — Use AI tools daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging; teach the squad effective AI usage
• Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work
• Represent the squad in planning, cross-team syncs, and leadership discussions
Qualifications:
Required:
• 4+ years in software engineering
• 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)
• Strong technical background—you can guide architecture discussions and code reviews
• Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability
• Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog
• Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp
• Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging
• Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices
• Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality
• Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback
• Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow
• Servant leadership mindset—you enable others to do their best work
• Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture
• Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership
• Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback
• Fluent in Spanish; working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration
• Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities
• Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade-offs with incomplete information
• Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence
Preferred:
• Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth startups
• Background scaling or building teams from scratch
• Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices
• On-call and incident management experience
Company:
Aplazo is a payment network that offers payment solutions and merchant tools to help merchants sell more and grow their brands. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Mexico City, MEX, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.