--- title: 'Technical Lead Manager at Aplazo' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-lead-manager-aplazo-remote-decyhebaj6t6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Technical Lead Manager at Aplazo - **Company:** Aplazo - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aplazo/e9926e1b-cb64-4e7a-90a2-011a8a792338 ## Job description ## 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'll stay hands-on technically (40–60% IC work) while owning your team's delivery, quality, and people development. At this level, you're the first-line manager for your squad—running 1:1s, giving feedback, coaching careers, and building a culture of ownership and psychological safety. You're also still 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 ## What We're Looking For ## Experience - 4+ years in software engineering - 1+ years managing or leading a team (formal or informal) Technical - Strong technical background—you can guide architecture discussions and code reviews - Familiar with modern development practices: CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), observability - Comfortable with our stack or similar: Java/Spring, Angular/React, PostgreSQL, AWS, DataDog - Still enjoys being in the code and staying technically sharp AI Fluency - Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for code reviews, design drafts, and debugging - Teaches squad effective AI usage and best practices - Experiments with AI to accelerate team delivery and quality Leadership & People - Experience running 1:1s and giving direct, kind feedback - Track record of developing engineers and helping them grow - Servant leadership mindset—you enable others to do their best work - Builds trust, psychological safety, and ownership culture Communication - Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and leadership - Sets expectations and provides continuous feedback - Working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration (required) Mindset - Comfortable balancing people and technical responsibilities - Thrives in ambiguity; makes smart trade-offs with incomplete information - Cares about both business outcomes and engineering excellence ## Nice to Have - Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth startups - Background scaling or building teams from scratch - Familiarity with engineering career frameworks and coaching practices - On-call and incident management experience ## Our Stack Java/Spring, Python, Go · Angular, React · PostgreSQL, MongoDB · AWS (ECS, Lambda) · DataDog · Pulumi · Jenkins ## Why Aplazo Our mission is to empower financial access and opportunity across Latin America through fair, simple, and transparent solutions. Our tech vision: be the most beloved and innovative tech organization in Latin America. We're a Series B fintech growing fast—you'll build and lead a team that ships products reaching millions of customers. Pro Tip: How do we review your CV? Help us find you! We filter applications with the help of AI. To ensure your profile is properly evaluated, we recommend describing your experience using the keywords from this job posting. Personal data collected during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with the Privacy Notice of Aplaz, S.A. de C.V. (“Aplazo”), available at our Privacy and Policy Notice https://aplazo.mx/privacy-and-policy. Aplazo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sex, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, social or economic status, sexual preferences, or any other condition or characteristic. Selection is based solely on the qualifications and merits of the candidates. #LI-Remote ## About Aplazo ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Aplazo is a Mexican fintech that provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform enabling consumers to purchase goods in installments without needing a credit card, serving both online and physical merchants. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $45 million raised in May 2024) - **Headquarters**: Mexico City, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Angel Peña (Co-Founder & CEO) and others (COO also co-founder, but name not disclosed in sources) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial technology (BNPL / consumer payments) - **Target customers**: B2C (underbanked and credit-invisible consumers in Mexico) and B2B (offline and online merchants seeking to increase sales and loyalty) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To become the preferred payment method in Mexico by making credit more transparent, flexible, and accessible, especially for the large unbanked population. ## Products & Services - **Aplazo BNPL**: A virtual card that allows shoppers to pay in installments (typically 20% upfront, remainder in fixed payments) without a credit card. Available in-store (more than half of transactions) and online. - **Merchant Tools**: Integration services and data analytics that help businesses offer installment payments, drive conversion, and build customer loyalty. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total equity funding of ~$100 million, with an additional $75 million in committed debt. Revenue reportedly tripled in the past year (as of May 2024), and the company claimed to be near cash-flow breakeven. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: QED Investors (led Series B), Oak HC/FT, Kaszek, Picus Capital, and Volpe Capital (new investor). Partnerships with nearly 10,000 merchants. - **Growth Signals**: Revenue tripled year-over-year; delinquency rates cut by half while business more than 3x’d; 40% of users have no credit history, giving Aplazo a unique data advantage; strong presence in physical retail (in-store >50% of transactions). ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-powered underwriting**: The company uses AI to assess risk per transaction, enabling low delinquency even with limited traditional credit data. - **Massive underserved market**: Mexico has a large underbanked population (~40% of users have no credit history), making it difficult for international players like Klarna or Affirm to compete. - **Dual channel (online + offline)**: In-store BNPL is a key differentiator in a market where e-commerce penetration is still low. - **Data moat**: With ~10,000 merchant relationships and millions of transactions, Aplazo’s data network continues to compound, improving both underwriting and merchant value. ## Strategic Focus - **Deepen product ecosystem**: Use BNPL as a stepping stone to broader financial services (e.g., credit building, savings, or lending) for both consumers and merchants. - **Expand merchant network**: Continue onboarding physical and digital retailers, leveraging in-store adoption. - **Self-funded growth**: With near breakeven status and strong unit economics, the company aims to grow without heavy reliance on future dilution. ## Why Work Here - **Hybrid work model**: Employees work in a combination of remote and on-site (office in Mexico City). Some roles are fully remote; others require occasional in-office time. - **Culture of efficiency and AI**: The company emphasizes lean, data-driven operations. Engineering and data science teams are central, with AI embedded across the organization. - **Growth trajectory**: Revenue tripling and disciplined scaling make it an attractive place for those wanting impact in an emerging market fintech. - **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but a “high-growth startup” environment with a focus on financial inclusion and real-world impact. Headcount is around 190 (BuiltIn) or 130 (TechCrunch 2024); engineering team of ~65 is a significant portion of the company. ## Sources 1. [aplazo.mx](https://aplazo.mx/) 2. [Built In - Aplazo careers](https://builtin.com/company/aplazo) 3. [TechCrunch - Series B announcement](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/aplazo/) 4. 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