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João Silva

@joosilva3

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Engineering leader driving fintech product teams to deliver scalable, measurable outcomes.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I seek a product-driven engineering leadership role where I can scale teams, improve reliability, and align engineering outcomes with business impact in a collaborative, growth-oriented culture.

I am an engineering manager with 8+ years of experience building and scaling distributed, product-focused teams across fintech and cloud platforms. I have a strong track record of growing teams, introducing product discovery practices, and aligning engineering outcomes with business goals.

At INPOST I scaled the Finance domain from 3 to 14 engineers, split it into three product teams, improved stability via QA and automated regression testing, led migrations to GCP, and enhanced invoicing and payments across six countries to accelerate invoice publication by 40%.

Previously I led fintech engineering teams at LYFT (FreeNow) delivering a €5M annual revenue feature, helped establish a new engineering hub at RailCube growing teams to 30% of company staff, and built full‑stack solutions earlier in my career. My technical breadth includes Java, Kotlin, Python, GCP/AWS, PostgreSQL, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and modern frontend frameworks.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Engineering Manager

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InPost

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Scaled the Finance domain from 3 to 14 engineers and split it into three product teams; improved stability by introducing QA and automated regression testing and accelerated invoice publication by 40% across six countries.

Scaling Teams GCP)Java PostgreSQL Neo4j RabbitMQ Product Management QA Automation

Engineering Manager

Lyft (formerly Free Now)

Dec 2022 - Aug 2023 (8 months)

Led an 8-engineer fintech team focused on driver payments; launched a fee configuration enabling B2C fees on B2B clients, generating €5M annual revenue and improved team velocity through coaching and agile practices.

Fintech Java Kotlin AWS Kafka PostgreSQL React Team Leadership

Engineering Manager, Cloud Platforms

Railcube

Jul 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Established a new engineering hub and scaled teams to 10 engineers (30% of staff); delivered finance and maintenance modules including pricing/invoicing and predictive maintenance features.

AWS Azure GCP)PostgreSQL SQL Server Kafka RabbitMQ Cloud Architecture Team Building

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Railcube

Apr 2018 - Jul 2021 (3 years 3 months)

Built core features for passenger railway clients and launched a B2B order-tracking portal; refactored mobile and desktop apps and optimized cloud services for performance.

C++.NET Azure SQL Server Angular Web APIs Performance Optimization Cloud Services

Robotics Software Engineer

Sarkkis Robotics

Sep 2016 - Apr 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Developed end-to-end software solutions for robotics and Industry 4.0 manufacturing applications, delivering production-ready automation features.

C++.NET WPF Industrial Automation Embedded Systems Software Integration

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Porto

Master's in Automation and Robotics, Automation and Robotics

2015 - 2017

Master's in Automation and Robotics completed at the Faculty of Engineering, focusing on automation and robotics topics and applied projects.

University of Porto

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

2012 - 2015

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering completed at the Faculty of Engineering with coursework and projects related to mechanical systems and engineering fundamentals.