Remote in EU | Long-term B2B Contract
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and develop engineers working on modern, cloud-based software products.
This is a people-first engineering leadership role for someone who has built their career in software engineering and has since developed substantial experience managing engineers. You will not carry an individual contributor delivery load, but you should have enough technical depth to understand the systems your teams build, challenge assumptions, assess engineering quality and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions.
Your focus will be on building strong engineering teams: developing people, raising performance, improving team effectiveness, hiring well and creating an environment in which engineers can do their best work.
The environment is international, distributed and technically demanding, combining cloud-native engineering, AI-enabled products, CI/CD and production systems operating at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
Line-manage software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback,



career development and structured growth plans.
Own performance management across your team, including objectives, formal reviews, promotion cases and difficult performance conversations when required.
Lead hiring for your area, from defining capability needs through interviewing and final hiring decisions.
Support new engineers through structured onboarding and probation, identifying gaps and acting on them early.
Develop engineers toward senior individual contributor and technical leadership career paths.
Use engineering and delivery signals such as throughput, cycle time, DORA metrics and incident trends to identify people, capability and staffing issues.
Work closely with technical leaders and other engineering functions to ensure teams have the right skills, capacity and support to deliver effectively.
Maintain enough technical proximity to challenge estimates, understand technical risk and

📌 Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Salve.Inno Consulting
📍 Madrid