At First Line Software, we drive business success with cutting-edge IT solutions and a relentless focus on innovation. Since 2010, our general team of over 300 professionals has excelled in industries including healthcare, data engineering, and retail digitalization. By leveraging Generative AI, we deliver impactful results and help clients stay ahead of the curve. Join us to be part of a collaborative team that values growth, excellence, and social responsibility.

Let's see what we can create together!

The project and your role You’ll join a digital engineering team responsible for a set of guest-facing digital products: a guest portal, a loyalty platform, a public-facing booking website, and an AI concierge and booking assistant, all built on a modern, cloud-native stack. As Digital Tech Lead, you will be the most senior hands-on engineer on the team, setting technical direction while staying embedded in the code and the delivery itself.

Your responsibilities:

Provide hands-on technical leadership across all digital engineering delivery - setting standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and release management

Lead architecture and solution design for new digital features and products, working with the Integration Architect to keep alignment with the wider architecture

Conduct code reviews and architecture assessments with nearshore partner teams, ensuring outputs meet the required engineering standards

Actively contribute to delivery - writing code, building features, and shipping working software alongside the product engineering team

Own the technical definition of user stories - breaking down business requirements into well-scoped engineering tasks and acceptance criteria

Introduce and embed modern engineering practices: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing,



containerisation, code quality gates

Act as the technical accountability lead for nearshore digital engineering partner teams - reviewing architectures, assessing quality, and ensuring delivery meets required standards

Identify and address performance gaps in partner engineering quality and velocity

Contribute to engineering capability build - tooling, practices, and onboarding standards for new engineers

Modern web engineering: ASP.Net, .NET8, C#, React, Next.js, TypeScript, REST and GraphQL APIs

Cloud: AWS - Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Amazon Connect

DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)

CMS and digital experience platforms: Optimizely, Bloomreach, or equivalent

AI/ML integration: LLM orchestration (LangChain), conversational AI, WhatsApp Business API

Security and compliance: OWASP standards, PCI-DSS awareness

4+ years in digital engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or principal engineer capacity

Experience leading engineering quality and standards across hybrid engineering models

A practitioner-first approach - you write code and review code, leading by doing rather than only directing

Strong communication skills - able to explain technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders

Nice to have:

What we can offer

Our modern stack projects are the right mix of exciting and challenging

Gain access to our diverse range of training programs, courses, and certifications

Choose your work style - this role is hybrid, with 3 days a week in the office

Enhance your language skills with our corporate English classes

Work from anywhere and explore the world with our Workation program

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📌 Digital Tech Lead (Madrid)
🏢 First Line Software
📍 Madrid