Engineering Manager

💥 What is Embat?

Embat is a SaaS company on an ambitious growth journey, building innovative solutions that make a real impact. We pride ourselves on a flat organizational structure where everyone is empowered to contribute directly and meaningfully. Here, your work matters, your voice is heard, and your ideas can shape the future of our product and company.

💥 What are we looking for?

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager, a leader who combines technical expertise, people development, and delivery ownership. You’ll lead one or more engineering teams, inspiring them to build exceptional products, grow as professionals, and deliver excellence.

Our tech stack is second to none, so you’ll be ready to shoot to the moon and beyond: our Frontend is built with ReactJS, enabling fast, scalable development with strong resiliency. We use Figma to design our proprietary Design System and UI Kit. Our Backend runs on NodeJS, and the platform is powered by Google GCP, with Firebase as our center of command.

If you’re passionate about mentoring engineers, driving high-quality product delivery, and making a strategic impact, this role is for you.

💥 What will you do?

As an Engineering Manager at Embat, you will:

• Inspire and develop your team: Mentor engineers through regular 1:1s, career development conversations, and performance feedback. Foster a supportive, inclusive, and high-performing environment.

• Own delivery and execution: Ensure your team delivers high-quality software on time, aligned with company goals. Remove blockers and optimize workflows for efficiency.

• Champion process and engineering excellence: Continuously improve development processes, team workflows, and coding standards. Advocate for best practices and agile methodologies.

• Provide technical guidance: Support architectural decisions, guide complex technical challenges, and ensure scalability and robustness across systems.

• Collaborate across functions: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other teams to ensure alignment, clear communication, and seamless integration of features.

• Grow the team: Actively participate in recruiting, conducting interviews, assessing technical and cultural fit, and helping attract top talent.

• Ensure operational excellence: Oversee the health, scalability, and reliability of your team’s systems. Promote a culture of operational awareness.

• Be a cultural ambassador: Uphold Embat’s values (ambition, teamwork, and humility) in everything you do.

💥 Objectives

• Cultivate high-performing, engaged, and autonomous engineering teams.

• Drive the successful delivery of complex product initiatives aligned with Embat’s roadmap.

• Elevate engineering standards and foster continuous improvement across your teams.

• Support engineers’ professional growth and career progression.

• Enable smooth cross-functional collaboration to ensure company-wide impact.

💥 Requirements

• 2+ years as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead, with 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience (ideally JavaScript/NodeJS/React).

• Proven experience leading teams and delivering complex software products in agile environments.

• Strong passion for mentoring and coaching engineers at different career stages.

• Solid technical foundation, capable of guiding teams on architecture, performance, and scalability.

• Ability to drive results through others while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe culture.

• Continuous improvement mindset focused on engineering excellence and process optimization.

• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Fluency in English and Spanish.

• Based in Spain (ideally Madrid) or willing to relocate.

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with our stack: React, Redux, NodeJS, MongoDB, Python, GCP, Gitlab CI/CD.

• Experience in fintech products or fast-paced startup environments.

• Contributions to open-source projects.

• International experience and/or additional languages.

💥What comes with working at Embat?

We offer a platform that allows you to reach your professional and personal goals. We pride ourselves on working in an evolving and agile environment, with day-to-day interaction with every member of the team. No bureaucracy or hierarchy. We rather give you space to lead, build, collaborate and create value to our users.

Additionally, being an Embat(ier) also comes with the following benefits:

• A competitive salary according to the project and responsibility.

• Hybrid working setup & flexible schedule

• Latest technology of your choice to do your impactful work with.

• Access to private health insurance with Sanitas

• Access to salary on demand, restaurant card, transport card, and kindergarden checks through Payflow

• English Classes

• Career progression - we are a small team with great ambitions.

• An opportunity to work hand in hand with our founders who built their careers in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan for more than a decade.

• 360º development - through internal and external talks, sponsored conferences and many more to come.

• Twice-yearly performance reviews

• Team Buildings plans