Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

At Swile, we believe that good products can help reduce friction in daily professional life and boost employee satisfaction. Today, we provide innovative solutions in various areas such as Fintech, Travel, HR, and Employee Benefits to more than 5.5 million users in 85,000 companies in France and Brazil.

As an Engineering Manager, your primary role is to lead a team of software engineers in creating impactful software products. This involves guiding the team's technical direction, helping them do better, and making sure they meet their goals and roadmaps. Additionally, you'll help build a sustainable engineering environment that supports long-term growth and innovation.

You will be responsible for defining roadmaps in collaboration with the product team and other engineering teams, as well as managing stakeholders from different areas of Swile in both Brazil and France. You're also expected to ensure a high-performing team, maintaining quality and security standards, timely deliveries, and effective performance management.

Additionally, you are expected to have a strong organizational impact, influencing both other engineering managers and engineers on aspects such as on-call routines, delivery quality, security, and engineering processes, continuously raising the technical bar across teams.

Main Responsibilities

• Participate in meetings with stakeholders to design scalable and secure solutions for complex technical and business problems.
• Drive team performance and actively manage individual contributors.
• Oversee the software development lifecycle, implementing best-in-class engineering practices.
• Balance strong technical skills with effective people management abilities.
• Improve on-call processes, ensuring production stability and fast incident response.
• Contribute to hiring processes, raising the technical bar across engineering teams.
• Engage in technical discussions, contribute to software architecture, and facilitate problem-solving.
• Mentor and support the professional development of team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the team is impact-oriented, using data-driven decision-making to achieve expected results as planned.
• Collaborate with teams in Brazil and France to ensure Swile's success and global strategic alignment.
• Work on solution design alongside other teams, ensuring synergy and coordination in executing complex projects.
• Guarantee that team deliveries meet proposed timelines, maintaining quality, security, testing, documentation (ERDs), and alignment with stakeholder expectations.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent proven professional experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably with Java or Kotlin.
• 4+ years as an Engineering Manager, with proven results and experience in large-scale global projects.
• Experience in architecture and development of distributed systems.
• Clear and effective communication skills.
• Fluent English (C1+).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent proven professional experience.
• Proven experience leading high-performance engineering teams with 10+ engineers, including Senior and Staff-level professionals.
• Experience working in financial services or fintech companies.

About Our Values

We are team players: we care about our teammates and collaborate seamlessly across different areas.

We are doers: we have a high level of autonomy and deliver tangible results.

We move fast: we identify priorities correctly and take initiative.

We are ambassadors: we understand our market and product, and we stay aligned around a shared vision.

We stay hungry: we are resilient, eager to learn, and love sharing knowledge.

We cherish our values: we set our egos aside and embrace feedback as a gift.