Engineering Manager – Hands-On, Java

🔥 36 minutes ago

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

💵 $84k - $102k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Space Inch

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎮 Gaming

Consulting • Marketing • Gaming

Space Inch is a company renowned for its prowess in mobile game development, having accumulated 40 million installs for popular games such as Infinite Skater, Disco Bees, Say the Same Thing, and Make It Rain. Over its 8 years of operation, Space Inch has refined its approach to software development, emphasizing quality engineering and a strong company culture. The company employs passionate and innovative full-stack engineers who are skilled in a wide range of technologies including web, mobile, and blockchain development. Space Inch has also demonstrated capabilities in creating sophisticated enterprise software and decentralized cryptocurrency trading platforms, showing versatility across various industries, including gaming, ecommerce, and blockchain. The company is highly focused on ensuring efficient software engineering practices and fostering an environment where engineers thrive by valuing learning, communication, and teamwork.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of around 10 engineers on a long-running client project • Spend approximately 75% of time coding as a senior Java engineer • Build and maintain backend applications and microservices using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot • Own technical decisions across architecture and system design • Write production-ready code, participate in code reviews, and maintain engineering quality • Debug and improve performance, reliability, and scalability • Work across databases, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps • Use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality • Coordinate planning, prioritization, delivery, and unblocking for the engineering team • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and feedback • Act as the primary day-to-day technical point of contact for the client • Communicate progress, risks, priorities, and dependencies proactively • Translate client requirements into actionable work and align the client, team, and Space Inch • Organize delivery and support the team’s relationship with the client

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years leading an engineering team of 5 or more while remaining actively involved in the codebase and technical decision-making • 7+ years of professional software development experience • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java, Spring, and Spring Boot • Strong backend engineering and software architecture fundamentals • Experience building and maintaining production systems and microservices • Strong experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL • Experience with Docker and cloud environments • Familiarity with CI/CD, Kubernetes, and modern cloud infrastructure • Comfortable owning the full software development lifecycle, from design through production • Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance • Comfortable organizing priorities, tracking delivery, and unblocking a team • Experience acting as the main technical contact for a client or external stakeholders • Comfortable discussing technical decisions, delivery, risks, and priorities with non-engineering stakeholders • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar • Strong ownership and accountability • Fluent professional English, written and spoken • Currently based in Brazil

🏖️ Benefits

• Real influence on technical decisions and project direction • Professional development support • Work-life balance • Transparency and long-term relationships • Remote-first setup • Generous PTO • 100% paid sick leave • Annual health checkup • Wellness subsidy • Education budget • Referral bonus • Equal employment opportunity

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