About the Role
We're looking for a Tech Lead Manager to lead a squad of 4–8 engineers. This is a player‑coach role: you will stay hands‑on technically (40–60% IC work) while owning your team's delivery, quality, and people development. At this level you are the first‑line manager for your squad — running 1:1s, giving feedback, coaching careers, and building a culture of ownership and psychological safety. You also stay in the code, making technical decisions and shipping alongside your team.
What You'll Do
People & Team (40–60%)
- Build the team — Hire and onboard E1–E3 engineers
- Develop your people — Run effective 1:1s, give direct feedback, write performance reviews, and coach career growth
- Foster culture — Build psychological safety, ownership, and accountability within the squad
- Shield the team — Remove blockers, handle noise, and keep the squad focused on delivery

Technical (40–60%)
- Stay hands‑on — Write code, review PRs, and contribute to technical decisions
- Own delivery — Ensure the squad delivers on commitments with high quality and predictable velocity




- Drive quality — Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices
- Handle incidents — Own squad‑level incidents and postmortems
- Leverage AI — Use AI tools daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging; teach the squad effective AI usage

Planning & Alignment
- Run the squad — Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
- Align with product — Partner with PMs and designers to translate requirements into deliverable work
- Communicate up — Represent the squad in planning, cross‑team syncs, and leadership discussions

Experience
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years in software engineering
- 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal)

Technical
- Strong technical background — guide architecture discussions and code reviews
- Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability
- Comfortable with our stack or si

📌 Technical Lead Manager (Colombia)
🏢 Aplazo
📍 Colombia