Overview
BrainRocket is a global company creating end-to-end tech products for clients across Fintech, iGaming, and Marketing. Young, ambitious, and unstoppable, we’ve already taken Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Poland, and Serbia by storm. Our BRO team consists of 1,300 bright minds crafting innovative ideas and products. We don’t follow formats; we shape them. We build what works, launch it fast, and make sure it hits.
Location & Role
We’re expanding to Valencia, Spain, and we’re looking for a trailblazing Engineering Manager to lead the way.
About the Opportunity
This is your chance to build and lead high‑performing engineering teams, drive backend platform excellence, and shape the future of a cutting‑edge product. You’ll play a critical role in delivering high‑quality, high‑impact, and timely releases.
Responsibilities
- Directs and controls the back‑end technologies of a platform / product
- Leads the recruitment and onboarding process for their teams, hires / fires as necessary, coaches teams and individuals to grow talents
- Manages back‑end team leads and possibly senior engineers through periodic feedback, one‑to‑one sessions, performance evaluations, and preparing individual development plans for direct reports
- Participates in and leads / co‑leads agile processes and scrum / kanban ceremonies, ensuring the team stays aligned with set agile rules
- Leads the platform / product development without frequently getting involved in writing and reviewing code
- Improves the quality of the platform / product by identifying technical debts, recurring problems and pitfalls; enhances architecture, system design, and process flows
- Manages resources within teams, rotates people as necessary, and balances workload among teams
- Implements latest technological innovations to advance the company’s technology and enable better digital products
- Creates new guidelines, improves existing standards, and ensures that domain knowledge of the team is well documented
- Participates and drives engineering activities that are not directly linked to his / her team, improving the whole engineering organization
Requirements
Bachelor’s, Master’s or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a relevant field8+ years of backend development experience, 2+ years managing other engineers or leadsExperience with Kubernetes and containers, cloud‑based development, infrastructure and system design, microservices, SQL and NoSQL databases, and agile methodology (ideally scrum)Strong knowledge of data structures, coding patterns, and algorithmsExperience with RESTful APIs, message brokers, third‑party integrations, code / peer reviews, working with design mock‑ups, CI / CD, secure development, information security, and test‑driven developmentConstructive feedback, analytical skills, leadership and team management, communication and presentationEnglish (Upper‑intermediate)Join BrainRocket and rock with us!