Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams (Mobile and Backend), conducting 1-on-1s, individual development plans (IDPs), performance reviews, and talent retention.
Translate and cascade the company's strategic plans to the team, ensuring technical direction is aligned with business objectives.
Ensure delivery of end-to-end solutions, from in-app experience to backend service robustness, working closely with Product Managers (PMs), Product Designers, and other leaders.
Facilitate communication between technical teams and business areas, ensuring transparency, visibility of timelines, and alignment of expectations.
Foster an environment of psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous feedback, acting as an ambassador of Stone's culture.
Promote technical excellence through best practices (Clean Code, clean architecture, CI/CD, DevSecOps, use of RFCs, and a documentation culture).
Monitor OKRs and team and product health metrics (mobile delivery cycle metrics and DORA metrics for backend).
Handle ambiguous scenarios, distributed architectures, and challenging prioritizations, balancing delivery speed and technical debt.

Previous experience leading/managing technology teams using agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
Strong technical background in software development, with the ability to guide architecture discussions for both the Mobile ecosystem (Android/iOS) and Backend (APIs, Microservices, databases, resilience).
Experience in environments with scalable, integrated, and high-availability systems.
Practical knowledge of software testing (unit, integration, E2E) and deployment automation pipelines (CI/CD for cloud and/or app stores).
Familiarity with observability, telemetry, and system troubleshooting tools and concepts.
Clear communication skills, empathy, and emotional intelligence to manage conflicts and support the career development of engineers across different specialties.

Software Engineering Manager I

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