Hello! We’re Cashea 👋, and we're on a mission to bring optimism back to Venezuelans 🇻🇪 by building innovative financial products. Since our launch in 2022, we've been dedicated to democratizing financial inclusion through cutting-edge technology. In that time, we've grown to serve over 6 million customers, developed a range of products for both consumers and merchants, and become a trusted name in Venezuela—winning both minds and hearts 💛.
We’re now hiring our first Platform Engineering Manager to lead and scale the internal platform team that will power our future. This is a foundational leadership role. You’ll manage our existing DevOps team, define the long-term vision for our internal platform capabilities, and hire the team needed to get us there. Your mission: empower our developers to ship with confidence, security, and speed—by building the systems, tooling, and culture that underpin modern software delivery.

Overall you will:

• Manage, coach, and grow a team capable of providing support to our +40 Engineers

• Define the platform engineering vision, roadmap, and operating model aligned with Cashea’s product and growth goals.

• Build a top-down platform organization, prioritizing foundational infrastructure, automation, and tooling for scale.

• Lead our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure strategy—scalability, security, cost optimization.

• Define and enforce best practices in Docker, Kubernetes, service discovery, secrets management, and container lifecycle.

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release tooling to maximize developer efficiency.

• Implement observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting) across services and environments.

• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed controls and guardrails into platform workflows.

• Collaborate with product engineering to identify friction and build self-service solutions.

• Design and maintain internal tooling, golden paths, and sandbox environments to reduce cognitive load.

• Evangelize DevEx best practices, including local development workflows, environment parity, and testing automation.

• Build hiring plans, technical standards, and scalable practices to support a multi-team, multi-service environment.

• Set measurable goals for platform adoption, incident reduction, deployment frequency, and MTTR.

• Act as a thought partner to the Head of Engineering on organizational design, engineering KPIs, and team expansion.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience.

• 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role, ideally with experience managing DevOps or platform engineers.

• Deep hands-on experience with:

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — IAM, VPC, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, etc.

  • Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.

  • CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Helm).

• Comfortable writing or reviewing code in Node.js or Python. (Bonus: familiarity with Flutter or React build processes.)

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, site reliability practices, and developer productivity tooling.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, with strong communication and documentation skills.

• A builder’s mindset: you enjoy creating systems, shaping culture, and scaling what works.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience building platform teams from scratch or leading major platform transformations.

• Familiarity with platform-as-a-product thinking and developer enablement metrics (e.g., DORA).

• Background in incident response, postmortems, and production readiness.

• Interest in cost-aware cloud ops and performance tuning in GCP.

• Track record mentoring engineers and growing junior team members into senior contributors.