STRONG NETWORK. STRONG TEAM.

Sovendus connects Europe’s leading brands with customers who buy.

We’ve been doing it for 17 years, with one clear focus: turning general checkout traffic into a source of new customers and incremental revenue.

More than 3,000 brands across Europe are already growing with Sovendus through long-term partnerships and real European transaction data. That’s how growth becomes predictable. And scalable. ?

Now, we're looking for a Head of Engineering based in Spain who wants to lead engineering teams, drive technical transformation, and help shape the future of our engineering organization. ?

As a Head of Engineering, you will:

- Lead and support multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a key point of contact for engineers, providing guidance, support, and direction to enable successful delivery and team effectiveness.
- Create clarity around priorities, goals, and responsibilities, empowering teams to make decisions and execute independently.
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, and the CTO to balance product delivery with long-term technical evolution.
- Drive cloud-native engineering practices across the organization, including AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, and modern development workflows.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and effectiveness.
- Support teams through technical transformation initiatives, platform modernization efforts, and cloud-related projects.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and strategic technology decisions together with engineering and architecture stakeholders.
- Help establish scalable engineering processes, observability practices,



incident management procedures, and operational excellence across teams.

Your profile:

- You have several years of experience leading software engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
- You bring strong experience working in cloud-native environments, ideally with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automation practices.
- You have led technical transformation initiatives such as cloud migrations, platform modernization, or large-scale engineering changes.
- You are comfortable collaborating with engineers, architects, product teams, and senior stakeholders.
- You have hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and are excited about driving their adoption within engineering teams.
- You combine technical understanding with strong leadership and organizational skills.
- You communicate confidently in English and thrive in an international environment.

It's a plus if you have:

- Experience in product-led organizations.
- Experience working with PHP/Laravel, Angular, MySQL, or similar environments.
- Exposure to Rust or other modern programming languages.
- Knowledge of security, compliance, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience scaling distributed engineering teams.

? Why Sovendus?

Because great engineering enables great products.

You'll join an international, fast-growing company where you'll have the opportunity to influence how engineering teams work, support technical transformation initiatives, and help drive the adoption of modern technologies and AI-powered development practices. Your work will directly contribute to the continued growth and scalability of our business across Europe. ?

Please note: This is a remote role, but we are only considering candidates who are already based in Spain and have valid work authorization.

📌 Head of Engineering (España)
🏢 Sovendus
📍 España