Engineering Manager - Storefront

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Storefront based in Brazil.
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for a business-critical e-commerce and payments platform. In this role, you will drive the modernization of a large-scale storefront system while improving its performance, reliability, and scalability. You will combine strong technical expertise with hands-on people leadership to turn individual talent into consistent team delivery. Working closely with senior engineers, you will guide architectural decisions and lead the transition toward a more cloud-native environment. You will also help the platform prepare for significantly higher transaction volumes while strengthening engineering practices and operational excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a critical product within a collaborative, distributed, and technology-driven environment.

Accountabilities:

Lead, manage, and grow the Storefront engineering team, including recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and developing engineers as the team scales.

Establish clear delivery priorities and execution plans, balancing platform modernization initiatives with scalability and reliability objectives.

Partner with senior technical leaders to evaluate architecture, make engineering decisions, and define effective technical solutions.

Drive the resolution of production performance bottlenecks, reliability challenges, and observability gaps.

Lead the modernization of the existing VM-based .NET platform toward a cloud-native architecture.

Ensure the platform can reliably support significantly higher payment transaction volumes while maintaining performance and stability.

Establish effective team processes, operating rhythms, and engineering standards that promote accountability, collaboration, and predictable delivery.

Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, provide constructive feedback, support career development, and build a strong team culture.

Use AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, accelerate modernization efforts, and enhance software delivery.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align technical priorities with product and business objectives.

Requirements:

10+ years of overall professional experience, including at least 8 years of hands-on technical experience and 1+ year in a formal engineering people-management role, managing at least 3 direct reports.

Previous experience as an Engineering Manager leading production-critical, revenue-generating platforms. This position requires established people-management experience rather than a first transition into leadership.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Proven ability to develop strong individual contributors into cohesive, high-performing, and accountable engineering teams.

Experience managing distributed teams working primarily during US business hours.

Demonstrated experience modernizing VM-based .NET systems toward cloud-native architectures and scaling production platforms to support significantly higher traffic or transaction volumes.

Strong technical expertise and credibility, including the ability to read code, evaluate backend architecture, understand system design trade-offs, and make or validate technical decisions.

Solid backend engineering fundamentals, ideally with .NET and SQL Server, or the ability to quickly adapt to this technology stack.

Strong understanding of relational database design and operations, including schema design, query performance optimization, and database locking behavior at production scale.

Experience deploying,