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Engineering Manager (EIS Team)
Madrid Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers in the development and maintenance of our cutting-edge financial technology platform. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of one of our new teams within the stream-focused domain, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that effectively meet customer needs. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence within your team while driving continuous improvement and growth.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Own a domain/subdomain and set the 0-6 month technical roadmap.
- Work with senior engineers to ensure architectural consistency.
- Be accountable for the reliability, availability, and security of your systems.
- Ensure all systems have appropriate support, SLAs, on-call rotation, and documentation.
Delivery Management:
- Be responsible for your team's delivery, including planning sprints and overseeing project health.
- Assess the criticality of unplanned work, minimizing contextswitching and unnecessary pressure.
- Balance team capacity with roadmap demands.
- Instill a sense of urgency to find the right balance between velocity and quality.
- Ensure all incidents are owned.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Act as the primary liaison between engineering and product, partnering with your product counterpart to ensure full alignment.
- Communicate progress and escalate issues effectively.
People Management:
- Lead and manage a team of engineers at varying levels, creating a stable environment for the group.
- Be responsible for managing the team's performance and well-being, initiating corrective actions when needed.
- Provide coaching, performance reviews, and career pathing.
- Create a culture of ownership and feedback.
- Demonstrate the ability to hire, grow, and retain high-performing engineers.
Process and Performance:
- Ensure that company processes are effectively and timely executed.
- The primary measurement of success is at the team level.
- Be accountable for team KPIs (velocity, quality, on-time delivery, morale, staffing).
- You may manage a limited budget for tools or specific project costs.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, leading and supporting engineers.
- Experience working in fintech or within the financial services industry.
- Experience working in a multi-channel, multi-product driven environment.
- Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
- Experience with agile development processes.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Passion for technology and innovation.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work on challenging and rewarding projects.
- Collaborative and supportive work environment.
- Be part of a dynamic and growing company.
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 1,800+ 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.