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. 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.

As Engineering

Manager for Remarketing, you will lead an multidisciplinary engineering team of approximately eight people, potentially organized across multiple delivery streams responsible for a complex portfolio of customer-facing mobile and web applications, backend services, integrations, quality capabilities, and AI-enabled image-processing workflows. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will be accountable for team development, engineering execution, delivery predictability, quality, and technical sustainability. You will partner closely with Product, the Technical Lead, QA, Architecture, DevOps, Customer Success, Professional Services, and other engineering teams. you own engineering capacity, delivery planning, and feasible execution of the when and how.

This is a technically credible leadership role rather than a full-time coding position. Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, provide timely feedback, manage performance, and create career-development plans.

- Own hiring, onboarding, capability planning, career development, continuity planning for critical roles, and recommendations related to progression.
- Strengthen the Technical Lead role and clarify accountability across Engineering, Product, and QA.
- Be accountable for engineering execution and delivery predictability across the Remarketing scope.
- Own sprint planning, execution control, reviews, retrospectives, refinement facilitation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
- Protect the team from uncontrolled scope changes and ad hoc requests, ensuring accepted work is visible, prioritized, and traceable in Jira.
- Use engineering and delivery metrics to reduce carry-over, improve flow,



and communicate progress and risk. Engineering owns feasible execution of the when and how.
- Contribute engineering input to discovery, functional analyses, RFCs, roadmap feasibility, non-functional requirements, and sequencing.
- Partner with Product to ensure that roadmap items are translated into delivery-ready epics, with clear scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and intended outcomes, before Engineering commits to execution.
- Quality, SDLC and Operational Excellence • Drive a disciplined and traceable SDLC, with Jira as the source of truth for engineering execution.
- Establish and enforce Definitions of Ready and Done, release criteria, quality gates, and consistent issue-type usage.
- Ensure that the team implements an appropriate automated-testing strategy across the relevant test levels, in partnership with the Technical Lead and QA.
- Be accountable for integrating security, reliability, observability, performance, and operability into engineering planning and execution, in collaboration with the relevant specialist teams.
- Own engineering participation in incident response, root-cause analysis, bug triage, corrective actions, and post-release monitoring.
- Ensure that technical decisions across distributed systems, APIs, mobile and web applications, data stores, integrations, and asynchronous workflows are appropriately reviewed and owned.
- Champion SOLID principles, clean and modular architectures, pragmatic domain-driven design, secure engineering, and useful documentation.
- Cloud, DevOps and Production Operations • Lead the team in operating cloud workloads, preferably on AWS, with sound decisions on scalability, resilience, security, cost, and service ownership.
- Strong people management, coaching, hiring, performance management, conflict resolution, and stakeholder communication.




- Proven ability to develop senior engineers and Technical Leads and manage mixed internal and external teams.
- Demonstrated ownership of delivery, capacity planning, dependencies, release planning, and risk management.
- Strong command of Agile and lean principles without treating ceremonies as a substitute for outcomes.
- Business-oriented mindset connecting technical decisions to customer value, quality, cost, and operational impact. Strong software-engineering foundation and recent experience leading distributed, customer-facing cloud systems.
- Experience with architecture and modernization across APIs, backend services, web and mobile applications, databases, and integrations.
- Strong experience operating cloud workloads, preferably on AWS, combined with practical knowledge of containers, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and production operations.
- NET, React/Next.js, Flutter, and legacy technologies.
- Strong understanding of automated testing, quality gates, secure SDLC practices, and maintainable software design.
- Fluent English is mandatory; French is a plus.
- A minimum of 8 years in software engineering, including at least 3 years in engineering management or an equivalent leadership role.
- Proven experience managing and developing multidisciplinary software-engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering and operating complex SaaS or cloud-based products in production.
- Experience improving software quality, SDLC discipline, automated testing, release governance, and operational reliability.
- Strong cloud and modern DevOps experience; AWS experience is preferred.
- Experience in automotive software, digital marketplaces, image processing, mobile products, or AI-enabled products is advantageous but not required. You will operate as the engineering owner for the Remarketing domain, partnering with Product on roadmap execution while maintaining clear accountability for engineering capacity, delivery, quality, technical sustainability, and team development. Interview with Engineering Director # Remote Work: Up to 3 days a week! ~ Summer schedule on Fridays: Start early your weekends! ~ Private Medical Insurance: Adeslas. ~

📌 Backend Engineering Manager /Remote/ (Madrid)
🏢 Nextlane
📍 Madrid