At Nextlane , we don’t just develop software solutions – we create the future of the automotive industry. We are a company that combines advanced technology with a clear vision: simplifying and digitizing every step of the automotive customer journey, empowering manufacturers and dealerships to thrive in a constantly evolving market. So… What does it mean to be a #Nextlaner?

Be committed to provide an environment where you can learn, grow, and collaborate on projects that make a general impact. Our success is measured not just by results, but also by the growth and satisfaction of those who are part of our company. Nextlane builds the software that runs automotive retail across 14 countries, with more than 60 manufacturer integrations.

Today that runs on around ten legacy dealer management systems, built over three decades in technologies that are now at the end of their life. We are replacing them with a single cloud platform, and we are building it with AI at the centre: both in how our engineers work, and in what our customers get. You will lead the engineering organisation that builds all of it: the cloud product portfolio, the single platform that replaces the legacy estate, and the AI products we sell to dealers and manufacturers.

The legacy estate keeps running while you build what replaces it, so you will be making hard sequencing calls about what gets migrated, what gets rewritten and what gets left alone, with real customers on the other side of every one of them. Engineering strategy and delivery. Defining and executing the engineering strategy for the cloud product portfolio, aligned to the company strategy and the product vision, and owning delivery, scalability,



reliability and operational excellence.

An engineering organisation of around 30 people, led through Engineering Managers, with Principal and Staff Engineers on the technical track. The engineering capability, evaluation discipline, reliability and unit cost model that let us ship customer-facing AI features safely and repeatedly, including ownership of the Skywalker team. You will take this from adoption to measured delivery outcomes, and contribute to how it works across the company.

Working with our Architecture Practice and our Platform engineering team so that we ship one platform rather than several that resemble each other. Agentic development is measurably changing throughput and quality in your teams, with the numbers to prove it rather than anecdotes. Your leadership bench is strong enough that the organisation runs without you in the middle of it. ️ You have taken an engineering organisation from AI-assisted coding to agentic delivery, and you changed the operating model to match: how work is decomposed, what the definition of done is, how code review and testing hold up when generated volume goes up, and how you measured whether any of it worked.

That means evaluation harnesses, failure modes and hallucination posture, latency and unit cost per interaction,



human in the loop design, data protection, and the conversations with legal and with customers about what the system is allowed to do. You have run an engineering organisation of around 30 to 50 people or larger, through Engineering Managers or Directors, across more than one product domain, and you have hired and developed those leaders.

Fluent

English, which is our working language and the language of the interview process. You can hold a room of engineers and a room of executives on the same subject and be equally clear in both, explain a technical trade-off in business terms without diluting it, and write well enough that a decision survives contact with a distributed organisation. You have built cloud-native B2B SaaS at scale.

Multi-tenant products with real reliability and scalability requirements, distributed and international teams, and a product-led organisation where engineering partners with Product rather than receiving specifications from it. You are fluent in cloud platforms, distributed systems and modern software delivery, and you can judge those decisions even where you are not hands-on.

Experience in a private equity backed environment, and comfort with the reporting rhythm and capital discipline that comes with it. Domain exposure to automotive, mobility, retail, fintech, telecommunications or another integration-heavy enterprise SaaS sector. French, Spanish, Portuguese or German.

Engineering

Leadership interview. # Remote Work: Up to 3 days a week! ~ Summer schedule on Fridays: Start early your weekends! ~ Private Medical Insurance: Adeslas. ~

📌 VP Software Engineering (Madrid)
🏢 Nextlane
📍 Madrid