We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a strong and autonomous team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems.The team owns foundational components used by other engineering teams and services, including internal libraries, data transformation infrastructure, CI workflows, and integration tooling.What You'll Do- Lead, coach, and develop experienced engineers while maintaining a high level of team autonomy.- Own planning, prioritization, and delivery across several interconnected technical areas.- Improve visibility into priorities, dependencies, timelines, and ownership.- Balance product commitments with technical debt and long-term platform improvements.- Improve engineering workflows, including CI/CD, release processes, code review, and collaboration across repositories.- Identify and remove delivery bottlenecks and unnecessary manual coordination.- Partner with Product and other engineering teams on roadmap, priorities, and releases.- Stay close to technology by participating in architecture and design discussions and, where relevant,



code reviews and technical investigations.What We're Looking For- Strong software engineering background combined with engineering management experience.- Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers.- Background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems.- Experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, release engineering, or internal platforms.- Strong planning, execution, and stakeholder management skills.- Ability to understand complex technical trade-offs without needing to be the deepest expert in every area.- Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.- Pragmatic approach to processes - creating enough structure to improve execution without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.Experience with Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud infrastructure, observability, or AI-assisted development would be a plus.We are looking for someone who combines technical credibility, people leadership, and strong execution - and can help a highly autonomous engineering team work more effectively as one.#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Engineering Manager (Barcelona)
🏢 Wellfound
📍 Barcelona