We are looking for a
hands-on Tech Lead / Engineering Lead
to lead the development of a fintech platform, combining technical leadership, architectural ownership and delivery accountability.

The role sits at the intersection of
engineering, architecture and execution
, leading both internal engineers and external development partners while maintaining direct involvement in complex technical decisions and critical engineering work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead internal engineering teams and external development partners, ensuring delivery, quality and technical alignment.
- Own technical execution across architecture, development, testing, releases and production readiness.
- Ensure adherence to architectural principles and lead technical reviews and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Establish and enforce engineering standards around code reviews, CI/CD, testing, Definition of Done and technical debt.
- Review and accept deliverables against criteria including security, performance, observability, maintainability and deployment readiness.
- Manage external engineering partners,



ensuring transparency, knowledge transfer and minimisation of vendor dependency.
- Participate in incident response, post-mortems and root-cause analysis.
- Remain hands-on through complex code and design reviews, technical prototypes and production development when required.

EXPERIENCE:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a
Tech Lead, Engineering Lead, Development Lead or equivalent
position.
- Strong hands-on development experience with
Go
and distributed architectures.
- Proven experience with
AWS, Kubernetes and cloud-native production environments
.
- Experience leading both internal engineering teams and external development partners.
- Demonstrable ownership of technical delivery, architecture and engineering quality.
- Experience in
fintech, banking, payments or other regulated environments
is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding

📌 Engineering Lead (Madrid)
🏢 Antal International
📍 Madrid