BMG Money-posted 3 days ago
Full-time • Executive
Hybrid • Miami, FL
51-100 employees

We are seeking an exceptional Head of Engineering to lead our end-to-end technology engineering organization. This role is responsible for overseeing Software Development, Quality Assurance, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Secure Development practices, ensuring the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems for a fast-growing fintech. The ideal candidate is a strategic engineering leader with a strong technical backbone, hands-on mindset, and the ability to scale teams, processes, and platforms. This person must be data-driven, mobile-first oriented, and experienced with modern cloud-native architectures in a multilingual, multicultural environment.

  • Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams, including Software Development, Quality Assurance, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Architecture.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and secure development methodologies.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data, and Cybersecurity teams to translate strategic business goals into scalable and measurable technology solutions.
  • Oversee the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring efficient, predictable, and high-quality delivery.
  • Promote a mobile-first and cloud-native mindset across all technology initiatives.
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering frameworks, microservices and micro-frontends architectures, and API-driven design.
  • Ensure the use of secure coding practices (OWASP, SAST/DAST, code reviews, threat modeling).
  • Lead a robust QA strategy covering automated testing, regression testing, performance testing, and release quality gates.
  • Implement continuous improvement processes to increase software reliability, speed, and test coverage.
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure strategy and operations (GCP, AWS and Azure), ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Drive DevOps maturity, including CI/CD automation, observability, logging, monitoring, and incident management.
  • Ensure infrastructure follows IaC standards (Terraform, Kubernetes, API Gateway, secrets management, etc.).
  • Ensure engineering decisions are aligned with data-driven principles, leveraging analytics, telemetry, and experimentation to optimize products and internal processes.
  • Work closely with Data Engineering and BI teams to support data governance, data quality, and scalable data pipelines.
  • Champion secure development practices and partner with Security teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Implement guardrails and controls for threat mitigation, secrets management, and secure infrastructure operations.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, accountability, and high performance.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent.
  • Promote transparent communication, strong documentation, and collaboration across teams.
  • 15+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with at least 10 years in a leadership or management role.
  • Strong experience leading teams across Software Development, QA, DevOps, and Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS and Azure) and containerized architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong understanding of secure development practices (OWASP, SAST/DAST, SDLC security).
  • Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern DevOps tooling, and automation frameworks.
  • Solid experience with mobile-first development strategies and API-centric architectures.
  • Strong analytical mindset, data-driven decision making, and business orientation.
  • Fluency in both English and Portuguese (written and spoken) is required, as this role interacts with cross-border teams, stakeholders, and partners.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with executives and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience in financial services or regulated environments.
  • Strong analytical and data-oriented mindset.
  • Hands-on technical background combined with strategic leadership.
  • Passion for technology excellence, automation, and innovation.
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