Porto-Based Hands-On Engineering Manager, Capital Markets

Euronext; Porto; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Euronext is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the IT Securities team in Porto. You will drive hands‑on technical leadership while mentoring a distributed software development group and collaborating with the Head of Development to plan capacity and deliver high‑impact projects.

The role requires balancing people management with active technical involvement, strong stakeholder skills, and a focus on engineering excellence across the portfolio in a European context.

Qualifications

• Approximately seven to ten years of professional experience in software development and IT.
• Around three to five years of management experience leading software development or engineering teams.
• Strong technical background with the ability to understand complex software architectures and distributed application environments.

Responsibilities

• Managing, coaching and coordinating a software development team, building a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement.
• Providing strong technical leadership and actively supporting the development team in solving complex engineering challenges.
• Evaluating team performance, providing continuous feedback and identifying development and training opportunities.
• Promoting engineering best practices, technical excellence and continuous learning across the team.
• Working closely with the Head of Engineering on team capacity planning and allocation across strategic projects, business‑as‑usual activities and technical initiatives.
• Taking management responsibility for the team supporting the existing portfolio of applications operating across multiple European locations, ensuring effective delivery of business‑as‑usual activities and acting as L3 application support for the existing application landscape. This includes handling ticket and support requests according to agreed priorities and service level agreements, as well as critical production incidents requiring deep technical investigation, resolution, escalation and follow‑up.
• Coordinating application maintenance activities, including software and infrastructure upgrades, vulnerability remediation, technical corrections, stability improvements and lifecycle management.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Technical knowledge

Communication skills

Fluent English

Job description

Euronext is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the IT Securities team in Porto. You will drive hands‑on technical leadership while mentoring a distributed software development group and collaborating with the Head of Development to plan capacity and deliver high‑impact projects.

The role requires balancing people management with active technical involvement, strong stakeholder skills, and a focus on engineering excellence across the portfolio in a European context.