Software Engineering Manager

Stone

Lead Mobile and Backend teams to deliver complete solutions while fostering technical excellence, clear communication, and team development. Balance delivery speed with architectural quality in a scalable, high-availability environment.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidiOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams (Mobile and Backend), conducting 1-on-1s, development plans (PDP), 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 the delivery of end-to-end solutions, from in-app experience to robust backend services, working closely with Product Managers (PMs), Product Designers, and other leaders.
Facilitate communication between technical teams and business areas, ensuring transparency, deadline visibility, and aligned expectations.
Foster an environment of psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous feedback, acting as an ambassador for Stone's culture.
Encourage 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Previous experience leading/managing technology teams using agile methodologies (Scrum / Kanban).
Strong technical background in software development, with the ability to guide architectural 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 automated deployment 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 career development for engineers across different specialties.

Benefits

Comp & perks

🩺 Health and Dental Insurance
🏥 24/7 Virtual Hospital service (Verde) available quickly and conveniently
🥗 Meal Allowance and/or Food Voucher
🌴 SESC Agreement
🕗 Flexible working hours
✏ Education Benefit - Internal platform with access to books, podcasts, training, and video lessons for self-development (Studa and StoneCo Library)
💪 Gympass
👶 Childcare Assistance - for children up to 5 years and 11 months
💰 Fixed Salary + Profit Sharing (PLR) when eligibility requirements are met
💚 Life Insurance
🚗 Commuter Allowance (available for on-site positions only)

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentagile methodologiesScrumKanbanmobile developmentAndroidiOSAPIsmicroservicesdatabases

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationempathyemotional intelligenceconflict managementcollaborationpsychological safetycontinuous feedbacktalent retentionstrategic planning