# Engineering Manager (Java/Kotlin Stack)

Engineering Manager We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of backend engineers building the systems behind our financial products. You will own the team's delivery, technical direction and people growth, and help shape engineering culture across the department. You'll operate with significant autonomy, making key decisions on architecture, priorities and ways of working, and you will work closely with product and neighboring engineering teams to turn business goals into reliable, scalable services. Your work will directly impact the quality and speed with which Plata delivers to its customers. Challenges that await you: Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers: hiring, onboarding, career development and honest feedback, while fostering a culture of ownership and engineering excellence. Take ownership of your team's delivery and the reliability of its services: set priorities, plan roadmaps, and keep quality, scope and timelines in balance. Drive technical strategy and architecture for high-load, distributed systems, balancing immediate business needs with long-term, future-proof decisions. Partner with product, other engineering teams and stakeholders to underst

- **Id**: 3815281
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/plata-engineering-manager-javakotlin-stack>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-09-16T14:55:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T16:34:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 417
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3443
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 684549
- **Name**: Plata
- **Domain**: plata.careers
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/plata-2>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 124
- **Ghost share**: 0.25
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.008
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 114
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Kotlin** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 416

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T15:48:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 416
- **Expected fill days**: 114
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, ghost, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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