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 str

📌 Tech Lead of Development (España)
🏢 Antal International
📍 España