Engineering Manager

September 29, 2026

Hybrid

Lead

Madrid

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English is required

Description

Nextlane is an automotive software company that digitizes the customer journey for manufacturers and dealerships. The Engineering Manager will lead a multidisciplinary team of about eight across mobile and web applications, backend services, integrations and AI-enabled image-processing workflows, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The role owns engineering execution, delivery predictability, quality, technical sustainability and team development, partnering closely with Product, QA, Architecture and DevOps. It is a technically credible leadership position rather than a full-time coding role.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team of approximately eight people including internal engineers and external contributors
Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, provide timely feedback, manage performance and create career-development plans
Own hiring, onboarding, capability planning, career development and continuity planning for critical roles
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
Translate roadmap priorities into realistic delivery plans based on capacity, dependencies, risks and technical constraints
Own sprint planning, execution control, reviews, retrospectives, refinement facilitation and capacity planning
Protect the team from uncontrolled scope changes, ensuring accepted work is prioritized and traceable in Jira
Manage cross-team dependencies, release readiness and scope-versus-timeline trade-offs
Use engineering and delivery metrics to reduce carry-over, improve flow and communicate progress and risk
Challenge unclear requirements and ensure initiatives meet agreed Definition of Ready standards before commitment
Contribute engineering input to discovery, functional analyses, RFCs, roadmap feasibility and sequencing
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 and quality gates
Ensure appropriate automated-testing strategy across relevant test levels with the Technical Lead and QA
Own engineering participation in incident response, root-cause analysis, bug triage and post-release monitoring
Review solution designs, challenge architectural choices and guide decisions with the Technical Lead and Architecture
Champion SOLID principles, clean and modular architectures, pragmatic domain-driven design and secure engineering
Lead the team in operating cloud workloads, preferably on AWS, with decisions on scalability, resilience, security and cost
Drive effective CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release management, environment strategy and rollback practices
Use logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and service-level indicators to improve system health

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years in software engineering, including at least 3 years in engineering management or 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
Strong cloud and modern DevOps experience, AWS experience preferred
Experience with architecture and modernization across APIs, backend services, web and mobile applications, databases and integrations
Strong people management, coaching, hiring, performance management, conflict resolution and stakeholder communication
Strong command of Agile and lean principles without treating ceremonies as a substitute for outcomes
Technology-stack agnostic with environments that may include .NET, React/Next.js, Flutter and legacy technologies
Strong understanding of automated testing, quality gates, secure SDLC practices and maintainable software design
Experience improving software quality, SDLC discipline, automated testing, release governance and operational reliability
Experience leading modernization, legacy reduction or platform evolution while continuing to deliver customer value
Experience managing customer-impacting incidents, cross-team dependencies and critical technical escalations
Fluent English is mandatory; French is a plus
Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving abilities
Experience in automotive software, digital marketplaces, image processing, mobile products or AI-enabled products is advantageous but not required

Conditions

Remote work up to 3 days a week
Flexible entrance and departure times for work-life balance
Summer schedule on Fridays
Referral bonus of €1500 for every referred talent after 6 months
Flexible remuneration through COBEE platform
Private medical insurance with Adeslas
Access to internal platform for continuous learning
23 vacation days plus an intensive schedule in July and August
Teambuilding afterworks and activities

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