Location: Spain (on-site)
Sector: Fintech / Electronic Money / Payments
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead / Engineering Lead to join a new fintech venture launching in Spain, backed by the solid financial and operational foundation of a major international group. This is a key opportunity to shape the technology platform from the ground up, owning technical delivery, architectural integrity and engineering quality as the product evolves from MVP to a scalable, high-load platform .
The role combines technical leadership, architecture and hands-on software engineering , working closely with Product, Architecture and both internal and external development teams.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Delivery: Lead internal developers and external contractors, setting priorities, managing dependencies, timelines and quality, and ensuring predictable delivery.
Architecture & Engineering Quality: Ensure adherence to architectural decisions, conduct technical reviews, manage technical debt and establish engineering standards across code, testing,



security and deployment.
Hands-on Development: Remain technically involved through complex code reviews, prototypes and production development when required to unblock the team or reduce technical risk.
External Team Management: Oversee external development partners, ensuring transparency, knowledge transfer, code ownership and minimization of vendor dependency.
SDLC & Operations: Establish and improve CI/CD, Definition of Done, release management, observability and incident/root-cause processes.
Scalability & Resilience: Design and oversee distributed systems capable of supporting high loads, with a strong focus on fault tolerance, security, observability and disaster recovery.
Team Building: Participate in hiring and progressively build the internal engineering team as the platform and business scale.
Requirements
Level: Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead / Development Lead with strong hands-on exper

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