Engineering Manager, Wallapop

• Passion for building tools and platforms that make developers' lives easier
• You have experience leading engineering teams (Ideally +2 years)
• You have a deep understanding of how software is built and deployed
• Strong understanding of developer experience principles and best practices
• Excellent English communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with development teams (Spanish is a plus)
• You’re comfortable with participatory management / servant leadership
• Positive attitude, excellent problem-solving, and critical thinking
• Quality-driven, attention to detail, and pragmatic
• Excellent communication skills, adaptability, and eagerness to learn

Desirable

• Your mission will be to guide the teams in building and delivering a compelling product that empowers developers with a suite of self-service tools, APIs, and services to provide high-quality products quickly and efficiently
• You'll foster a growth, collaboration, and innovation culture, enabling our engineers to build efficiently, standardize effectively, and drive the next wave of platform excellence
• Lead engineering for the Platform team to develop and deliver a cohesive suite of self-service APIs, tools, and services that drive innovation, security, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Champion a culture of developer experience within the Platform team and across the organization
• Collaborate with development teams to identify and address pain points in their workflows and tooling
• Ensure efficient, purposeful meetings and streamlined processes that empower your team to stay agile, efficient, and aligned with organizational goals
• Coach and mentor engineers to foster growth, support skill development, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and engineer-centric mindset
• Gather feedback from internal users (developers) and stakeholders, analyze platform usage data, and use this information to iterate and improve the platform
• Evangelize the platform as a product to internal stakeholders, promoting its value and encouraging adoption
• Implement process improvements that enable secure, high-performance infrastructure, CI/CD best practices, and elevated observability standards to support product and data platform
• Conduct regular one-on-one sessions with engineers to:
• Set clear expectations and provide ongoing feedback, ensuring team members remain accountable and engaged
• Develop a strong two-way feedback loop where you share organizational context and build a deep understanding of the engineer and how they work
• Support engineers and help reach a resolution when challenges arise
• Craft a fulfilling and engaging work experience through regular career growth and development conversation
• Iterate and improve our engineering processes and technical culture
• Participate in hiring and onboarding of engineers

• Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts
• Intro Call - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes
• Practical case - you will prepare a practical case to present in order to assess the skills required for the role
• Expertise Interview - run by the core team, focus on the hard skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes
• Stakeholder Interview - run by the hiring team and relevant stakeholders, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up, as well as on leadership skills aligned with the role requirements. This usually takes 60 minutes
• Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes
• Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing