We're seeking a skilled Chief Engineering Leader to spearhead our high-growth engineering team.
This key role will be responsible for leading and growing a high-impact team, recruiting, mentoring, and managing engineers as we expand. The ideal candidate will have a technical background, reviewing pull requests, contributing to architecture, and writing production-level code.
Responsibilities :
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team of around 10 members.
- Provide individual coaching and support career development across the team.
- Establish and maintain high standards for ownership, commitment, and impact.
- Implement AI tools and best practices to boost team productivity and scalability.
- Write production-level code and actively participate in development tasks.
- Review pull requests, contribute to key modules, and debug complex issues.
- Develop and promote a strong engineering culture focused on quality, velocity, and impact.
- Design, implement, and optimize scalable and reliable system architecture.
- Evaluate trade-offs and select suitable frameworks and technologies.
- Align architectural decisions with business objectives.
- Implement monitoring, incident response processes, and blameless post-mortems.
- Ensure data security and privacy best practices are followed.
- Align the engineering roadmap with business goals in partnership with Product leadership.
- Balance team growth with operational discipline and startup efficiency.
Requirements :
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
- Proven track record of managing and scaling engineering teams effectively.
- Previous experience in a startup, scale-up, or relevant side projects is highly valued.
- Hands-on background in code contributions, architectural design, and solving technical challenges.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure operations and CI / CD automation.
- Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements.
- Strong technical background and experience with AWS).
- Strong product mindset with a focus on delivery and outcomes.
- Action-oriented with the ability to ship quickly without compromising quality.
- Experience defining and tracking engineering KPIs.
- Familiarity with monitoring, incident management, and operational excellence.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
- Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, design, and analytics stakeholders.
- Passion for fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
What We Offer :
- Autonomy to shape processes, culture, and the future roadmap.
- Many opportunities to build and evolve the Product and Tech in the coming years.
- Build end-to-end solutions using Flutter, and a modern serverless AWS data platform.
- Enjoy a balance of focused office days in Barcelona or Madrid with remote work.
- Salary base : €90,000, with equity participation.
- Flexible compensation.
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