Team Lead (Software Engineering) - Cash & Investments

EIS Group; España; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading InsurTech company seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team. Responsibilities include overseeing microservices for cash management, driving operational excellence, and fostering team growth. Candidates should have 5+ years in distributed systems and strong cloud operations expertise. The role offers a remote-first culture with attractive benefits including stock options and career development opportunities.

Servicios

Ownership and decision-making power

Stock options

Health insurance

Exciting global mobility opportunities

Formación

• 5+ years building distributed systems; 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven record shipping SaaS with CI/CD and automated testing.
• Strong coaching mindset with excellent communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and mentor a high-performance engineering team.
• Drive operational excellence with cloud services on Kubernetes.
• Partner with product and architecture to translate requirements.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems building

JVM expertise

Cloud operations (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD and automated testing

Strong problem-solving skills

Excellent communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Herramientas

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kafka

Descripción del empleo

Overview

EIS delivers a cloud-native, event-driven coretech platform that lets ambitious insurers modernize at speed.  The Cash & Investments team owns the services that manage and reconcile premium inflows into money and investment accounts, orchestrate multi-currency treasury moves, and automate complex investment transactions. You will guide a distributed team of 10 engineers as we continue the module expansion to serve all insurers across the globe. Expect autonomy, a remote-first culture, and close collaboration with product, devops, professional services, and sales peers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performance engineering team delivering microservices for cash management and investment modules
• Own quarterly OKRs, delivery forecasts, and production health; track velocity, DORA metrics, and customer satisfaction
• Drive operational excellence with multi-cloud event-sourced services on Kubernetes
• Ship containerised services on AWS or Azure using Terraform and Argo CD; embed observability, cost tracking, and automated runbooks
• Champion secure-by-default patterns and compliance readiness
• Partner with product, architecture, and other SMEs to translate complex requirements into crisp backlog items
• Hire globally, craft growth plans, and foster psychological safety so engineers innovate and take smart risks
• Represent the team in steering committees, cross-team workgroups and program planning meetings
• Use and apply generative AI techniques like retrieval, chunking, indexing, knowledge
• Adopt GenAI practices into SDLC and enable team to be more robust with less overheads
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in AI and backend development

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 5+ years building distributed systems; 2+ years leading engineers (people or tech-lead)
• Deep JVM expertise plus SQL and event-streaming (Kafka or equivalent)
• Cloud operations on AWS or Azure, including IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, container registries, observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Proven record shipping SaaS with CI/CD, automated testing, and data-driven delivery metrics
• Strong coaching mindset and clear written/spoken communication across time zones
• Basic understanding of frontend technologies (Typescript, React) to support backend integration
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to multi-agent or real-time data processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink)
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, MCP and other GenAI techniques
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job Benefits

• Work with top talent and great colleagues who are industry and technology experts. Operate in a Scaled Agile environment, diverse, multicultural and cross-functional teams
• We are a global and modern software product company building world-class Enterprise InsurtTech Product powered by leading-edge technologies (microservices, reactive, cloud, continuous delivery)
• We can offer ownership to our employees- from being able to make decisions that impact the growth of the company, to giving stock options
• We offer freedom - build from building your career path through development programs and exciting global mobility opportunities (we have a remote and global culture)
• Attractive compensation packages (includes merit-based increase and stock options)
• Health insurance, mobile device with conversation limit, home office set up one-time compensation
• We work with the newest Apple Macbooks

*Please note that we will be proceeding only with those applications that have valid working permits in the location stated in the vacancy description.