Engineering Lead

Hello! We’reCashea 👋, and we're on a mission to bringoptimism back to Venezuelans 🇻🇪 by building innovative financial products. Since our launch in 2022, we've been dedicated to democratizing financial inclusion through cutting-edge technology. In that time, we've grown to serve over 6 million customers, developed a range of products for both consumers and merchants, and become a trusted name in Venezuela—winning both minds and hearts 💛.

About the role:
As a Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the backend architecture and ensuring the success of our technical initiatives. You will be responsible for guiding your squad on architectural decisions, establishing best practices, and ensuring the team executes with technical excellence. Your leadership will be critical in driving innovation, performance, and reliability for our backend services.

Overall you will

• Act as the Engineering lead within a squad, guiding the team on architectural decisions, best practices, and technical execution

• Collaborate closely with frontend technical leads, ensuring smooth integration between backend and frontend services

• Lead the technical strategy for backend development, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance

• Own the architecture and design of backend services, establishing best practices and guiding the team on complex technical decisions

• Develop and maintain robust, high-performance backend services using Node.js and NestJS (Express)

• Drive technical innovation by researching and implementing new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance development processes

• Ensure system reliability and performance through well-structured testing, monitoring, and logging strategies

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to align technical solutions with business goals

• Mentor and coach backend developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning

• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices for backend development

• Oversee deployments and production operations, ensuring high availability and fast issue resolution

• Participate in hiring processes, helping to attract and assess top engineering talent

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with at least2 years in a leadership or technical lead role

• Strong expertise inNode.js and NestJS (Express) for building scalable backend applications

• Deep understanding ofRESTful API design, security, and performance optimization

• Advanced knowledge ofrelational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including database modeling, performance tuning, and query optimization

• Experience implementingunit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks

• Expertise inarchitectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems

• Hands-on experience withCI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (preferably GCP), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

• Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability tomentor and develop engineering teams

• Excellent communication skills and the ability tocollaborate across teams and squads

• Problem-solving mindset, analytical thinking, and ability tonavigate complex technical challenges

• Ability to work in afast-paced startup environment with autonomy and ownership

• Spanish and English proficiency

Desirable Skills: 

• Experience withcontainerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity withmessaging and event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub)

• Exposure toserverless computing and cloud-native development patterns