Backend Engineering Manager

decisions, contributing to engineering strategy, and raising the bar across your team. People Management & Growth: Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, provide actionable feedback, and manage performance. Coach and mentor engineers, guiding them through our Engineering Career Path and helping them reach their professional goals. Ensure your cross-functional team (Software Engineers working alongside a Product Manager) remains motivated, aligned, and highly productive. While you won’t be writing code on a day-to-day basis, actively challenge technical decisions, review architectural designs, ensure long-term scalability, and advocate for high quality, well-tested systems. Report directly to the Director of Engineering and collaborate within the Engineering Management Team. Contribute key insights to elevate our engineering organization and execute strategic planning. Engineering Leadership Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience managing, coaching, and growing software engineering teams. Strong Technical Foundation: Proven professional experience as a Software Engineer (Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, or Cloud systems). Focus on Delivery: Proven track record of managing engineering execution, optimizing team processes, and consistently driving teams to ship high-quality software on time. Technical Guidance (Hands-Off, Brains-On): You won’t be writing code daily, but must have the technical depth to review architectural designs, challenge technical decisions, ask the right questions, and guide the team toward sustainable, high-quality software solutions. Excellent communication skills and thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and other engineering leads. Fluency in both written and spoken English is a must, as you will be working within a truly international and multicultural team. JVM backend stack (Java / Scala) Event-driven architecture with multiple databases for each use case: RabbitMQ, MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis Kubernetes and Docker for application packaging and runtime execution. Fast-paced environment: more than 1.5k deployments per year to production with automated CI/CD processes. React + TypeScript SPAs across all consumer-facing apps. BFF pattern: frontends talk to per-platform Backend-For-Frontend services that orchestrate the backend microservices, decoupling UI from service topology. Save on personal income tax with Cobee for expenses like transport, restaurants, and kindergarten. Private health insurance: Enjoy 26 days of holiday per year (23 base days + your birthday off, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve). Whether you prefer Mac or Windows, or need an extra screen, we’ll make sure you’re set up for success from day one. We offer up to €2000/year in training (certifications, conferences, workshops) to boost your growth-both technical and personal. Access internal and external training, including platforms like LinkedIn Learning, completely free. Includes access to Wellhub, Curalinc (psychological support), Rocketlawyer (legal advice), and regular health webinars & challenges. Volunteer day: Take one day off a year to volunteer and give back. Bonus points for sharing pictures on Slack. Improve or learn a new language (English, Spanish, French, Italian, or German) in small groups with expert instructors-on us. Global, multicultural team: All communication is in English, so everyone’s included. Central Madrid office: When you want a change of scenery, drop by our office in the heart of Madrid-free snacks and drinks included. Hay opciones de teletrabajo/trabajo desde casa disponibles para este puesto.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, , ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart. As an Engineering Manager at Auctane, you’ll lead a diverse engineering team with a wide range of technical backgrounds and experiences. You’ll be responsible for setting clear expectations, aligning on common engineering practices, and making thoughtful decisions about where to standardize and where to let teams own their approach. At the same time, you’ll partner closely with product to deliver against a shared roadmap and maintain high standards across reliability, scalability, and code quality. This is a role for someone who is energized by the people side of engineering - building trust, creating clarity around ownership, and helping engineers do the best work of their careers. You’ll stay close to the technical work too: shaping architecture