Engineering Manager

About Zoe Zoe is an end-to-end wealth platform that helps clients grow and protect their wealth through innovative technology and exceptional client service. Zoe has raised a total of $45M in venture capital and is backed by Sageview Capital and the Opportunity Fund. In addition, former and current operators from JP Morgan, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Uber, and DoorDash are part of the cap table. Its accolades include Nerdwallet’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 Best Online Financial Advisor, Morningstar’s Fintech Startup of the Year 2019, ThinkAdvisor Luminaries’ 2024 Industry Disruption Firm Award, and 2025 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Best Wealth Management Product. The New York-based company has a strong leadership team with over 20 years of industry experience at firms like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Principal, and Learnvest. We offer the excitement of a rapidly growing company with the stability of a tenured leadership team and board. We have offices in New York and Bogota, Colombia. About the Role We’re seeking a skilled Engineering Manager to oversee cross-functional squads (Back-End, Front-End & QA) from our Bogotá office (Zona Chicó). You’ll blend people leadership with hands‑on architectural chops — guiding engineers, shaping road-maps, and ensuring every release meets Zoe’s bar for quality, security, and speed. You’ll thrive in a rapid‑growth, high‑ownership culture and excel at turning business goals into predictable, high‑impact delivery. Our ideal candidate pairs an experienced back‑end (PHP/Laravel, MySQL, AWS) or front‑end (ReactJS/NextJS) background with a proven record of building and coaching high‑performing teams. You care deeply about code health, developer experience, and creating an environment where engineers work at their best and have the biggest impact on their careers. Location: Bogota, Colombia Reports to: VP of Engineering Level: Manager We’re excited about you because… You’ve grown juniors into seniors and seniors into staff through clear feedback, mentorship, and career plans. You deliver business outcomes, you track them, improve them, and communicate trade‑offs. You still enjoy reviewing critical PRs, sketching service boundaries, and unblocking gnarly database or performance issues. You ask great questions, surface risks early, and foster psychological safety so the best ideas win. Product, Design, and Leadership trust you because you align priorities, negotiate scope, and keep everyone informed. You hold yourself to a high standard and lead by example. You raise the bar, then keep raising it. “Good enough” is never good enough for you. You only lead the best teams You’ll love working at Zoe because we… Are a successful, well‑funded, fast‑growing company with a start‑up work vibe. Are passionate about our clients and live/breathe the client experience. We hire A players. So you will be surrounded by the ‘Navy Seals’ of their craft that will push you to improve. Are a technologically and data‑driven business. Offer competitive salaries and equity. Are at the forefront of tech & Finance, redefining personal finance. Believe in autonomy & take the initiative. Responsibilities Define and track quarterly goals for engineering teams, ensuring delivery against scope, quality, and SLAs. Lead and develop engineers through 1:1s, growth plans, actionable feedback, and performance cycles; drive promotions or exits decisively. Own hiring processes by running structured interviews and closing top candidates. Review high‑risk designs and PRs , uphold architecture principles, and promote debt‑reduction strategies to sustain velocity. Establish and enforce reliability practices including SLAs, incident management, monitoring frameworks, and debt‑burn‑down to strengthen resilience. Facilitate agile rituals , unblock teams, track sprint health metrics, and communicate risks early to Product & Leadership. Champion engineering quality through testing practices, observability (OpenTelemetry, Datadog), SOC‑2 controls, and incident post‑mortems that improve MTTR. Coordinate with Product and Design to balance new features vs. platform work, sequence roadmaps, and deliver concise, data‑backed stakeholder updates. Model company values such as ownership and bias‑for‑action while fostering a learning and growth mindset across the organization. Demonstrated expertise in reliability and performance tuning (logging, monitoring, telemetry). Strong planning, prioritization, and execution skills in sprint‑based environments. Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical partners. Qualifications 3+ years leading squads as Engineering Manager or Tech Lead , including hiring, coaching, and performance management in high‑growth startups or scale‑ups. 5+ years building and supporting production systems (backend, frontend, or platform), ideally with our tech stack. Proven ability to make architectural trade‑offs (monolith vs. services, sync vs. async, SQL vs. NoSQL) and drive migrations without business disruption. Fluent in Agile/Lean practices , CI/CD, trunk‑based development, and metrics‑driven improvement (cycle‑time, deployment frequency, change failure rate). Track record of instituting test strategies , code‑quality gates, and security best practices (OWASP, secrets management). Strong communication skills , able to translate technical complexity into business terms, negotiate scope with Product, and inspire engineers with clear, empathetic direction. Talent attraction and team‑scaling experience , leveraging networking and storytelling to close candidates; scaling teams from