[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Marathon Talent

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Manager (EM), you will be responsible for building and nurturing a high-performing engineering team. You’ll balance people leadership, execution management, and technical guidance, ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable solutions aligned with product and business goals.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in dynamic environments, cares deeply about people, and has the technical depth to support strong decision-making without being hands-on every day.

What You'll Do:

• Hire, onboard, and grow engineers across different levels.
• Run effective 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.
• Coach engineers in both technical and soft skills.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and motivating team culture.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and with quality.
• Oversee sprint rituals (planning, standups, retrospectives) from a manager’s perspective.
• Identify and remove blockers, improve workflows, and refine processes.
• Partner with PMs and Designers to set priorities and align on goals.
• Guide architectural and technical decisions (without daily coding).
• Ensure best practices in testing, monitoring, scalability, and security.
• Review designs and mentor senior engineers.
• Act as a bridge between leadership priorities and engineering execution.
• Understand product and business goals and translate them into engineering strategy.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Participate in budgeting and headcount planning.
• Represent engineering in leadership and cross-functional discussions.

Qualifications

• Strong empathy, emotional intelligence, and communication skills.
• Experience in coaching, mentorship, and conflict resolution.
• Ability to create trust and psychological safety.
• Solid grasp of Agile, Kanban, or Lean practices.
• Familiarity with prioritization frameworks (OKRs, RICE, ICE).
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and managing expectations.
• Proven ability to hire and build great teams.
• Solid background in software engineering and systems design.
• Ability to evaluate technical proposals and make informed trade-offs.
• Familiarity with infrastructure, scalability, observability, and reliability.
• Understanding of CI/CD, testing practices, and incident response.
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to business impact.
• Strong judgment in balancing speed vs. quality, features vs. tech debt.
• Comfort communicating trade-offs and risks to executives.
• 5+ years of engineering experience, with 2+ years in management or tech lead roles.
• Proven experience managing teams of 5–15 engineers.
• Background in fintech, SaaS, or other high-scale environments is a plus.
• Fluency in English and Spanish/Portuguese is a strong plus.