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-assis

📌 Engineering Manager (Barcelona)
🏢 Wellfound
📍 Barcelona