Senior Software Engineering Manager

beBeeEngineering; Jerez de la Frontera; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading company in the tech sector is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide a talented group of engineers and innovate around financial systems. This role involves mentoring, setting goals, optimizing processes, and ensuring high-quality software delivery in a distributed work environment. Ideal candidates have extensive engineering experience and a passion for secure, scalable systems.

Formación

• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in financial systems.
• 1+ years in engineering leadership, ideally managing a small team.
• Strong understanding of system design and trade-offs.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting goals and inspiring clarity.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine processes and prioritize tasks.
• Foster a culture of craftsmanship and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Mentoring

Node.js

SQL

System Design

Communication

Asynchronous Workflows

Continuous Improvement

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Descripción del empleo

We are seeking a skilled Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping our technology and team. As a seasoned professional with hands-on experience in software engineering, you will guide a group of talented engineers, setting direction, mentoring with intention, and helping each person grow in their craft and career.

You will collaborate closely with product managers and stakeholders to shape our roadmap, break big ideas into meaningful milestones, and ship features that truly matter. Your expertise in architecture and process will help refine how we build, scale, and ship across our platform.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead with clarity and empathy, setting goals that inspire and challenge.
• Support engineers with thoughtful feedback, clear development plans, and ongoing learning.
• Partner with Product to prioritise work that delivers real impact—quickly and iteratively.
• Refine and scale our processes to improve quality, reliability, and velocity.
• Balance product innovation with technical health—tackling debt and strengthening systems.
• Help grow our team by hiring great people and helping them thrive.
• Foster a culture of craftsmanship, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

Minimum Qualifications :

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on financial, payments, or transaction-heavy systems.
• 1+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally including line management or technical leadership of a small team.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and a deep understanding of system design and trade-offs.
• Proficiency with Node.js and experience working in modern, service-oriented backends.
• Solid experience with relational databases (RDBMS) and strong SQL fundamentals.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, and messaging systems.
• Comfortable with modern development practices : TDD, CI / CD pipelines, trunk-based development.
• A natural collaborator with clear communication and excellent organisational skills.
• Motivated by delivery, you care about getting high-quality software into users' hands.
• Comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment, managing your own time and priorities effectively.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience working with global payment systems, cross-border transactions, or financial compliance domains.
• Familiarity with workload automation and asynchronous processing using job queues (e.g., BullMQ, RabbitMQ).
• Exposure to HTTP API integrations for third-party services (e.g., payment gateways, KYC providers).
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and database optimisation techniques for high-throughput environments.
• Proficiency with container-based deployments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, especially AWS.

As an ideal candidate, you possess exceptional technical depth, leadership experience, and a product mindset. You're passionate about building secure, scalable systems that power freelance payments around the world.