Engineering Manager - Lending

Ebury; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Package

Career Progression

Founding Autonomy

Premium Equipment

Collaborative Culture

Hub Leadership

Job summary

Ebury in Madrid is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead the teams delivering the client lending application and the AI-enabled platform backbone.

You will own hiring, drive architecture reviews on AWS and BigQuery, partner with Product and Design, and ensure scalable, reliable systems while maintaining strong operational health. This leadership role offers autonomy in a newly opened hub, competitive compensation, and a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams with mentorship and high delivery standards.
• Strong architectural and systems thinking across distributed services.
• Ability to recruit, assess, and hire top engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Build & Grow the Team: own hiring end-to-end and set high standards.
• Delivery Ownership: translate outcomes into clear roadmaps and reliable delivery.
• Technical Leadership: guide architecture and design reviews for scalable systems.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: collaborate with Product and Design on customer solutions.
• Operational Health: maintain production-grade stability and observability.
• Responsible AI Adoption: integrate AI tools safely with ownership of shipped code.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Technical Depth

Hiring Instincts

AI Fluency

Product & Quality Mindset

Communication

Tools

AWS

BigQuery

Job description

Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.

Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

As an Engineering Manager in our Madrid hub, your mission is to build and lead the teams that build the best client lending application in the market.

This role focuses on driving the growth of Ebury's Lending ecosystem, building robust, automated, multi-currency trade finance platforms that power the global supply chain.

Why This Role is Different

• Own Client Outcomes: Take real client problems end-to-end, owning experience, APIs, data, and iteration with full trust and autonomy.
• Player-Coach Early, Leader Always: Stay close to code early on (pairing, reviewing, shipping) and transition leverage into building people and systems as the team grows.
• Platform-First Thinking: Build scalable, generalisable platforms rather than bespoke one-offs. Value retiring technical debt and flags as much as shipping features.
• AI-Native Culture: Fluent in AI tools as force multipliers, guiding the team on effective adoption and designing AI into the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Build & Grow the Team: Own hiring end-to-end, setting high standards. Coach engineers through actionable feedback, clear growth paths, and performance management.
• Delivery Ownership: Translate ambiguous business outcomes into clear roadmaps. Sequence work, manage risk, and deliver reliably at a sustainable pace.
• Technical Leadership: Guide architecture and design reviews for high-scale, event-driven transactional systems on AWS and BigQuery.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with Product and Design to shape customer solutions and influence strategic trade-offs.
• Operational Health: Ensure production-grade stability, humane on-call loads, testing standards, CI/CD, and strong observability.
• Responsible AI Adoption: Integrate AI tools into development workflows safely and effectively while maintaining complete ownership of shipped code.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering Leadership: Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams with a track record of mentorship and high delivery standards.
• Technical Depth: Solid CS foundation with hands-on credibility building/operating distributed systems at scale (AWS, event-driven architecture, APIs).
• Hiring Instincts: Ability to define an interview bar, run rigorous hiring processes, and close exceptional talent from scratch.
• AI Fluency: Hands-on usage of AI coding tools and strong opinions on how teams best leverage AI for productivity and product capabilities.
• Product & Quality Mindset: Focus on client value, pragmatic scoping, and high discipline around money-movement systems (idempotency, reconciliation).
• Communication: Fluency in English with exceptional ability to articulate complex technical ideas and align cross-functional teams.
• Nice to Have: Fintech/payments/regulated domain experience, or web & mobile channel exposure.

What We Offer

• Competitive Package: Strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and comprehensive benefits tailored to a senior leadership role.
• Career Progression: Clear leadership paths, senior mentorship, and room to grow across technical and organizational domains.
• Founding Autonomy: Real ownership to shape your team, culture, and product area from day one in a newly opened engineering hub.
• Premium Equipment: High-end MacBook Pro or equivalent Linux hardware.
• Collaborative Culture: An inclusive, high-performing environment rewarding technical excellence, decision-making, and constructive challenge.
• Hub Leadership: As a member of our Málaga engineering hub, you will have the unique opportunity to help shape the office's culture, talent density, and engineering standards from day one.

The Hiring Process

We run a fast, respectful 4-stage process (typically completing final interviews within a week and decisions within 48 hours):

• Intro Chat (~30 min):Initial conversation about you, Ebury, and the role.
• Hiring Manager Interview (~30 min): Deep dive into your experience and the role expectation.
• Technical & Systems Design (~60 min): Collaborative design session with engineering leaders on a real-world system problem.
• Hiring Manager & Product Leader (~60 min):Discussion on problem-solving, product focus, team leadership, and long-term career acceleration.

About us

Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally.

Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 2000+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team.

At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage.

The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.

We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.

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