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.

As a New York-based company, we have a strong leadership team with over 20 years of industry experience at firms like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, 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 for a skilled Engineering Manager to oversee cross-functional squads (Back-End, Front-End & QA) from our Bogotá office (Zona Chicó) on a hybrid schedule. You'll blend hands-on architectural chops with people leadership—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.

**Location**: Bogota, Colombia (Minimum of Two days in office. The remaining work days you can work remotely)

**Reports to**: Sergio Acosta

**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 raise the bar, then keep raising it. “Good enough” is never good enough for you.

**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**
- Support the definition of clear quarterly OKRs for the engineering team and track delivery against scope, quality, and SLAs.
- Manage engineers (mix of mid and senior). Run 1:1s, craft growth plans, give actionable feedback, and drive promotions or exits quickly when the bar isn't met.
- Review high-risk designs and PRs, protect architecture principles, and promote debt-burn-down strategies that keep velocity sustainable.
- Facilitate agile rituals, unblock teams, own sprint health metrics, and communicate risks early to Product & Leadership.
- Enforce testing, observability (OpenTelemetry + Datadog), and quality controls (SOC-2); lead incident post-mortems that improve MTTR.
- Coordinate with Product and Design to sequence road-maps, balance new features vs. platform work, and keep stakeholders informed with concise, data-backed updates.
- Demonstrate Zoe's values like ownership and bias-for-action while fostering a learning and growth mindset across the organization.

**Qualifications**- 3 years as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead managing at least one full-stack squad (hiring, coaching, performance management) in a high-growth startup or scale-up.
- 8-10 years building production back-end systems with Laravel/PHP and MySQL, hands-on experience with AWS is a plus.
- Comfort making trade-offs around monolith vs. services, synchronous vs. async, SQL vs. NoSQL, and driving migrations without business disruption.
- Fluent in modern agile / Lean, CI/CD, trunk-based development, and metrics-driven continuous improvement (cycle-time, deployment frequency, change failure %).
- Track record of instituting test strategies (unit, e2e), code-quality gates, and security best practices (OWASP, secrets management).
- Can translate tech complexity into business terms for executives and negotiate scope with Product while inspiring engineers with clear, empathetic direction.

**Benefits**:

- Compensation includes a competitive base salary.
- Healthcare & Dental Coverage
- Commuting & Gym benefits
- As an early member of our team, you'll have a rare opportunity to influence the cu