Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
Coach and develop engineers, support them through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development, while creating an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
Define and drive long-term vision, set the strategy for your teams, ensuring perfect alignment with company objectives and product priorities.
Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities, partner closely with Product, Data, and Design to ensure teams focus on initiatives that deliver the greatest customer and business value.
Own execution and delivery. Balance speed, quality, and reliability while ensuring teams consistently achieve desired outcomes.
Provide technical leadership, guide system design and architectural decisions, help teams navigate trade-offs, and remove technical obstacles.
Champion engineering best practices. Drive continuous improvements in code quality, operational excellence, development processes, and technology evolution.
Collaborate cross-functionally, work with stakeholders across the broader business to maximize impact and align on priorities, strategy, and outcomes.

3-5+ years of experience in building, leading, and scaling development teams
People-Centric Approach and Team Building Skills: a passion for building high-performing teams and helping people grow. You know how to create alignment, foster psychological safety, provide actionable feedback, and develop engineers through coaching and mentorship.
Strong technical judgment and systems thinking. You are comfortable driving architectural discussions, evaluating technical trade-offs, championing engineering best practices, and partnering with senior engineers on technical strategy.
Product & Business Partnership: You're comfortable working closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable outcomes. You naturally connect technical decisions to user experience, business metrics, and company strategy.
Results-Oriented: A track record of driving performance. You know how to motivate teams to set and achieve ambitious, business-focused, and measurable goals.
Ethical Leadership: You lead by example, serving as the team's moral compass by demonstrating empathy, transparency, accountability, and a strong sense of ownership. You value honesty and fairness, creating a culture where people feel safe to challenge ideas, learn, and grow.

An open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture.
A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com, Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development.
A competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance.
Not in Barcelona? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply Barcelona Hub.
Access to free mental health support platforms.
Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain to promote and support well-being and physical health.
The opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors through language learning and teaching in 175 countries (and counting)!

Engineering Manager

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