ENG Engineering Manager - Build Platform
Feedzai
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Portugal · Remote
Posted on Jun 23, 2025
Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy. Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of +$1.5B, the company's technology protects 900 million people in 190 countries.
The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers.
We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.
While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges. Such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts to fight fraud more efficiently. In addition, designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms.
You:
As an Engineering Manager in the Build team, you will lead a team focused on CI/CD tooling and developer experience. Your team empowers engineering teams across Feedzai to build, test, and ship software efficiently, securely and reliably. Whether it's improving build speed, enhancing deployment workflows, or maintaining the internal tooling ecosystem, your work will directly improve how engineers do their jobs every day.
This role requires strong technical leadership and a user-centric mindset. You’ll focus on understanding developer needs and removing friction from the development lifecycle. Your ability to prioritize developer impact, drive execution, and foster a culture of engineering excellence will be key to your success.
Your Day to Day:
- Manage a team of engineers, supporting their career growth and day-to-day execution.
- Lead by example, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Provide technical leadership, guiding the team in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Drive the planning, execution, and success of technical projects
- Collaborate with engineers and tech leads to understand pain points and deliver tools that improve productivity and consistency.
- Champion best practices in implementation of scalable CI/CD systems and practices to support a fast, secure, and reliable release process.
- Work closely with recruiting to attract and hire top-tier engineering talent.
You Have & You Know-how:
- 4+ years of team leadership and/or management experience in technical teams.
- 5+ years of software development experience in engineering or platform/tooling roles.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
- Good knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and modern software architecture.
- A passion for improving engineering workflows and reducing developer friction.
- Ability to balance technical innovation with business impact and drive results.
- Excellent English skills.
Valued:
- Experience in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.
- Strong skills in leadership, adaptability, and problem-solving.
- A product mindset and user-first approach to internal tooling and platforms.
- Empathy for developers - you listen, prioritize impact, and build with care.
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and push back when necessary.
- Solution-oriented mindset - when challenges arise, you roll up your sleeves to get things done.
- A team player who empowers engineers to reach the next level.
Feedzai is an engineering company committed to growing with high standards in building its products. As an engineering manager, you will help to guarantee that this engineering culture persists at management levels combining both technical leadership and people leadership.
The Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Your thoughts and ideas are valued. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. We define and act on what could be in tomorrow's world, not on what is today. Join Us!
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Your First 30-Days at Feedzai:
You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can't wait to have you join the team!
Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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