Unlock Your Future with Nexaminds!
At Nexaminds, we're on a mission to redefine industries with AI. We're passionate about the limitless potential of artificial intelligence to transform businesses, streamline processes, and drive growth.
Join us on our visionary journey. We're leading the way in AI solutions, and we're committed to innovation, collaboration, and ethical practices. Become a part of our team and shape the future powered by intelligent machines. If you're driven by ambition, success, fun, and learning, Nexaminds is where you belong.
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Nexaminds is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact team responsible for internal developer platform initiatives and developer productivity across the organization. The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership with hands-on technical expertise in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-assisted development. This is a player-coach role, requiring active contribution to architecture, coding, technical decision-making, and platform delivery while driving team performance, roadmap execution, and developer experience improvements at scale.
Location: MEXICO
Qualifications we are looking for:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of direct people management experience, or equivalent technical leadership experience with demonstrated coaching and people-development responsibilities.
- Proven ability to balance engineering leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contributions.
- Experience owning and executing technical roadmaps aligned with business and engineering objectives.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently research, diagnose, and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Strong experience with C# / .NET development.
- Strong experience designing and operating solutions within Microsoft Azure environments.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies.
- Experience making architectural and technical decisions at the platform or team level.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, career development, and team building.
- Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (Backstage or similar platforms).
- Experience defining and measuring developer productivity using frameworks such as DORA, DX Core 4, SPACE, getDX, or similar.
- Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar solutions.
- Experience using Python for automation, scripting, or platform tooling.
- Experience with Azure PaaS services including Container Apps, Functions, Service Bus, Key Vault, and API Management.
- Experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience defining OKRs or similar goal-setting frameworks and reporting progress against measurable objectives.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and developing engineering teams.
Nice to have:
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agentic developer workflows.
- Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Datadog, or similar solutions.
- Experience integrating security tooling such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience leading CI/CD platform migrations (e.g., Azure DevOps to GitHub).
- Public speaking, internal enablement, technical evangelism, or thought leadership experience.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source developer platform tooling
Job duties:
- Lead and manage a team of engineers focused on Developer Platform and Developer Experience initiatives.
- Conduct 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, career development planning, and ongoing coaching to support engineer growth and success.
- Hire, onboard, and build a high-performing engineering team while fostering a collaborative and low-ego culture.
- Establish clear expectations, provide direct feedback, and address performance challenges constructively.
- Own and prioritize the roadmap across Developer Platform and Developer Experience initiatives, balancing investments across Internal Developer Platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, AI tooling, and developer productivity programs.
- Translate organizational goals, including AI adoption, deployment frequency, pull request cycle time, and developer satisfaction metrics, into actionable team deliverables.
- Partner with Application Architecture, engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align platform investments with business objectives.
- Communicate roadmap priorities, progress, risks, and trade-offs to leadership and platform stakeholders.
- Contribute directly as an engineer by writing code, reviewing pull requests, designing solutions, and collaborating with team members on implementation efforts.
- Author and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technical design proposals.
- Participate in complex troubleshooting, incident response, and critical technical initiatives when required.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to make informed architectural and engineering decisions across platform domains.
- Deliver and enhance Internal Developer Platform capabilities, including Backstage, Terraform module libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and shared developer tooling.
- Drive adoption and effectiveness of AI-assisted development tools across the engineering organization.
- Establish measurement frameworks for developer productivity and experience, leveraging data to guide investment decisions and improvements.
- Champion paved roads, golden paths, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce cognitive load.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Product Engineering teams to ensure platform solutions meet organizational needs.
- Lead office hours, demos, enablement sessions, and adoption initiatives that improve awareness and utilization of platform capabilities.
- Represent the team in architecture reviews, technical decision forums, and leadership discussions.
- Continuously evolve platform engineering and developer experience strategies to align with emerging AI tooling, platform engineering best practices, and developer productivity trends.
What you can expect from us
Here at Nexaminds, we're not your typical workplace. We're all about creating a friendly and trusting environment where you can thrive. Why does this matter? Well, trust and openness lead to better quality, innovation, commitment to getting the job done, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Stock options
Remote work options
Flexible working hours
- Benefits above the law
- But it's not just about the work; it's about the people too. You'll be collaborating with some seriously awesome IT pros.
- You'll have access to mentorship and tons of opportunities to learn and level up.
Ready to embark on this journey with us? If you're feeling the excitement, go ahead and apply!
