Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Lead the successful execution and delivery of projects within product teams.

• Oversee comprehensive technical planning and convert product requirements into actionable tasks.

• Facilitate collaboration among engineers, product managers, QA, UX designers, and various stakeholders.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams.

• Assess requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment.

• Develop EPICs and technical user stories.

• Refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog in collaboration with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers.

• Organize and drive sprint execution, timelines, milestones, and dependencies.

• Promote engineering processes and rituals.

• Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize resource allocation.

• Manage cross-team dependencies and eliminate bottlenecks.

• Guide design decisions, enforce appropriate design patterns, and participate in code reviews.

• Ensure effective monitoring, alerting, and observability for owned services while achieving SLIs and SLOs.

• Define, track, and publish product metrics post-release.

• Oversee and mentor engineers, conduct performance evaluations, provide feedback, and lead project status reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 8–10 years of experience in a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or a similar hands-on technical role.

• 5+ years of experience in building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.

• At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.

• Strong grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery.

• Capability to translate complex product requirements into EPICs, user stories, and tasks.

• Solid backend engineering skills; familiarity with frontend technologies is a bonus.

• Experience with project planning and tracking tools.

• Knowledge of engineering and product health metrics and monitoring tools.

• Proficient in debugging complex production issues, leading incident response, and conducting blameless root cause analysis.

• Understanding of contemporary deployment practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and related metrics.

• Ability to foster alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Skills in risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication.

• Proven record of enhancing team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pension plan.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Paid leave.

• Environment focused on learning and development.

• Opportunities for knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical discussions.