Engineering Manager

November 8, 2026

Remote

Lead

Barcelona, Spain

Indeed

Description

Engineering Manager to lead the Editing Experience team within the Product Engineering organization. The team owns the translation editor, the review and approval workflow, content management tools and supporting developer utilities, with end-to-end ownership of strategy and delivery alongside a Product Manager and Designer. The role combines people leadership, hands-on code and design reviews, and AI-native engineering practices across the SDLC in a fully remote setup.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach and develop teams of Software Engineers, support career growth, run performance evaluations, contribute to compensation planning and hire engineers who raise the bar
Stay technically close to the work: review key designs and pull requests, pair with engineers on tricky problems, contribute to tooling, prototypes or small fixes
Partner with Product Managers and Designers in the Product Triad to understand customers deeply and take part in discovery
Connect engineering decisions to business impact and guide trade-offs on scope, investment and technical debt
Own the teams' flow of work from start to finish, track delivery and quality signals such as cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and recovery time, clear bottlenecks across planning, review, testing and release
Lead the teams' move to AI-native engineering across the SDLC, embed AI tools and agentic workflows, measure their real effect on speed, quality and reliability
Champion operational excellence, drive reliability and quality practices, own service health and step in as Incident Commander when needed
Own the teams' delivery: set quarterly plans, track progress against the product roadmap and help shape department-wide planning and strategy

Requirements

3+ years of recent experience as an Engineering Manager leading software engineering teams, ideally in SaaS product companies
Strong software engineering background, still hands-on today: can review code and designs credibly, dig into technical issues and contribute to architecture decisions
Proven people leadership: hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management and helping engineers grow into their next role
Strong product engineering mindset: partnered with Product and Design on discovery, worked directly with customers, measured success by customer and business outcomes
Business acumen: understands the commercial context, explains trade-offs in terms of impact and communicates clearly with stakeholders at all levels
Experience using engineering metrics and flow practices such as DORA metrics, cycle time or WIP limits to find bottlenecks and improve delivery, quality and team health
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and agentic tools both in own work and across a team
Experience planning and delivering complex initiatives across several teams predictably, including managing dependencies, risks and incidents
Experience in the localization industry or with translation workflows is a plus
Experience leading engineering teams at a product company during a scale-up phase is a plus
Experience shipping AI-powered product features such as LLM-based features to customers is a plus
Experience managing fully remote, distributed teams is a plus
Familiarity with developer experience or productivity frameworks such as SPACE or DevEx is a plus

Conditions

Full-time remote position with flexible working hours
Competitive salary and employee stock options
Co-working budget for days away from the home office
Flexible vacation policy
Home office setup budget for monitor, desk and ergonomics
Learning and development budget to grow skills and career
Health insurance
Wellness allowance to support mental and physical well-being
We do not engage on a B2B or contractor basis

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