Engineering Manager - Platform

Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us.

Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.

The Challenge

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.

What You Will Do

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

What Would Be A Plus

Do note that all our jobs are Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person / remote rituals.

Wallapop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.

We sponsor visa processes for international candidates when applicable and provide legal & admin support along the process combined with a competitive relocation package.

Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following Perks & Benefits :

What does the hiring process for this position look like?

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.

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