We are proud to offer a workplace where the sharpest developers come together to strategically plan and swiftly execute practices which see us maintain our existing market dominance and attain general expansion. The tech lead title is almost incidental. It just means youre the person the team orbits around, because thats what happens naturally when youre the one who understands the system most deeply and keeps the clearest head under pressure.
The 10% thats people management fits inside your engineering work, not alongside it. You hire, you steer, you unblock, but you do it the way a strong engineer does everything: with good judgment, minimal ceremony, and no interest in making it a bigger deal than it is.
You are still, genuinely, happiest close to the code and driving projects forward. Then you make one small, careful change, and the way it lands tells you everything you didnt yet know.
You have strong, well-earned instincts around performance. You know where latency actually hides, and its rarely where the team thinks it is. When you design something,



its because youve thought about what it needs to do in two years, not just the next sprint.
Once youve got your footing in the project, youll build the team around it. Youre looking for engineers with genuine curiosity, sound instincts, and the humility to learn a system before trying to improve it. In a system that behaves exactly as it should at 3am when nobodys watching. In the quiet satisfaction of a codebase thats a little more honest than it was before you touched it.
Youll tell us about it if we ask, and were asking.
Write tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure software reliability
Be involved in every phase of the software lifecycle, from ideation to deployment
Work hands-on across backend and frontend systems, stepping in wherever the problem lives
Collaborate closely with other senior engineers, raising the bar through example rather than authority
Take ownership of your work, ensuring high-qu

📌 Technical Team Lead, Contract (Barcelona)
🏢 Xcelirate
📍 Barcelona