Engineering Manager (Ebury Web Platform) Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

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Manager - Founding Team (Ebury Web Platform) Valencia Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home Build the banking experience the world's businesses deserve Ebury is a general fintech, headquartered in London. We help businesses move money across borders — FX, payments, and lending — in 140+ currencies, sending payments to 160+ countries across 30+ regulated markets, delivered by 2,000+ experts in 40+ offices worldwide and backed by the stability of majority-owner Santander. That's a bank's reach and reliability with the pace of a product team.

And we've set ourselves a deliberately hard bar: beat the best digital-first experience in our market, not merely match the incumbents. That bar is an engineering problem — and increasingly, a leadership problem. As a founding Engineering Manager in our new Valencia hub, your job is to build and lead the team that solves it, directly on the platforms our clients touch every day: the web portal, the mobile apps, the APIs.

This isn't back-office plumbing, and it isn't a coordinator role. Every team in this hub builds client-facing products, and your mission is unambiguous: build a team that builds the best banking-and-payments experience in the market. You use AI coding tools as a genuine force multiplier in your own work, you know how to help a team adopt them well, and you know how to design AI into the product so clients get answers and outcomes instead of forms and waiting.

We're opening a new engineering hub in Valencia, and you'd be one of its founding Engineering Managers — not the manager of team #40, but one of the first people setting how this hub hires, how it builds, what "good" means here, and which product bets are worth making. Your team takes a real client problem — "businesses can't see why a payment is held" — and owns it end to end: the experience, the services and APIs behind it, the data, the measurement, and the iteration after launch.





Your job is to make that ownership real: give the team the context, the trust, and the room to make product calls, then hold the bar on quality and delivery. At founding stage the team is small and you'll stay close to the code — pairing, reviewing, unblocking, and shipping the occasional change yourself to keep your judgement sharp and your credibility earned. As the team grows, your leverage shifts from your own commits to the people and systems you've built.

New currencies and payment rails are onboarded as configuration and adapters, not bespoke branches. Client-facing web and mobile channels evolving in parallel; an event-driven, API-first transactional platform on AWS where services own their data and talk only through known contracts; a governed GCP/BigQuery data world. Money-movement discipline — idempotency, deterministic retries, reconciliation — is table stakes, because we're handling businesses' actual cash.

So are the ones that tell you whether your team is built to last: delivery predictability, engineer growth and retention, on-call sustainability, and the quality of the bar you hire against. By 90 days: own a defined product area with a small team around it, run the core rituals (1:1s, planning, retros, on-call) with intent rather than ceremony, land your first hires against a bar you've helped define, and lead a project with a short design doc from ambiguous idea to a plan the team believes in. Develop your engineers through honest feedback, clear growth paths, and real coaching, and address performance directly and fairly when you need to.

Work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering leaders to translate business outcomes into scalable, resilient solutions, and to influence the roadmap and its trade-offs rather than just receive it. Define and evolve engineering standards — testing strategy, CI/CD,



observability, operational readiness — and make quality, security, and compliance non-negotiable and built-in. Identify systemic risk, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies early, and drive the initiatives that improve velocity, quality, and resilience at scale.

You've managed and grown a team of software engineers — hiring, developing, giving feedback, and handling performance — and you can point to people whose careers are better for having worked with you. Proven ability to take a team from ambiguous business goals to shipped, measured, iterated product, at a sustainable pace and a high quality bar. A strong computer-science foundation and enough hands-on engineering credibility to lead technical people well — you've built and operated production systems at scale, you can hold your own in a design review, and your engineers trust your judgement.

Founding-stage EMs here stay close to the code. AI coding tools are already part of how you work, and you have a view on how a team adopts them well; Product and quality instincts.

Working

English — our engineering language.

experience being early at a new office or founding team; exposure to both web and mobile. Highly competitive compensation, including a strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package, aligned to the impact and scope of a founding leadership role. A clearly defined leadership and technical career path, with transparent expectations, senior mentorship, and growth vectors across people leadership, technical direction, and organisational influence.

The chance to solve complex, high-leverage problems at scale, where your decisions shape core platforms, customer outcomes, the team, and long-term business performance. A high-end MacBook Pro or equivalent Linux device — we want you to have the best equipment. A high-performing, inclusive engineering culture within a fast-growing, global fintech, where technical excellence, thoughtful decision-making, and constructive challenge are valued and rewarded.

Four stages, run fast and structured — usually final interview within a week, decision within 48 hours: Intro chat (~30 min) — you, us, the role.

📌 Engineering Manager (Ebury Web Platform) (Valencia)
🏢 Ebury
📍 Valencia