Technical Engineering Manager
Gorilla Logic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Colombia
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About the role
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams, participating in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Guide teams in modern architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven systems, and modular monoliths.
- Ensure engineering solutions align with cloud-native best practices (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Support design reviews, technical spikes, and proof-of-concepts when needed.
- Lead and mentor developers, QA engineers, DevOps, and other engineering roles.
- Coach technical leads and senior engineers, supporting career growth and leadership development.
- Own performance management, feedback, promotions, and compensation processes.
- Address conflict, performance challenges, and team dynamics proactively and constructively.
- Own scope, schedule, quality, and delivery outcomes end-to-end for assigned engagements.
- Be actively involved in day-to-day delivery activities, including standups, unblockers, and release coordination.
- Track and manage delivery metrics such as cycle time, throughput, DORA metrics, SLAs/SLOs, and velocity.
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and blockers to ensure predictable delivery.
- Act as a technical point of contact for clients, participating in architecture reviews, delivery updates, and QBRs.
- Clearly communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery status to both technical and executive stakeholders.
- Support proposals, estimates, statements of work, and account growth initiatives in collaboration with sales and leadership teams.
- Understand and support forecasting, staffing, utilization, margin, and team allocation for assigned engagements.
- Partner with delivery and leadership teams to ensure the financial health and sustainability of projects.
- Balance delivery excellence with cost, efficiency, and long-term scalability.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience (software development or DevOps), with recent technical involvement.
- 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role, leading teams of engineers directly.
- Strong experience with modern architectures, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and CI/CD practices.
- Solid understanding of IaC, test automation, observability, and SRE concepts (SLOs, SLAs, incident response).
- Experience working directly with U.S.-based clients in delivery and technical leadership roles.
- Excellent English communication skills (C1/C2), written and verbal, with the ability to communicate clearly with engineers and executives alike.
- Experience in consulting services environments.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software developmentDevOpscloud-native best practicesmicroservicesevent-driven systemsmodular monolithsCI/CDIaCtest automationobservability
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationconflict resolutionperformance managementteam dynamicscoachingstakeholder managementcollaborationdelivery excellence