About the Position

Engineering Manager

Madrid

About LYNX

At Lynx Financial Crime Tech S.A., we are an AI-based software company specialized in detecting and predicting behavioral patterns. Led by an expert team from the financial and academic sectors, we develop and implement cutting-edge, self-learning AI technologies. Our platform excels in low-latency transaction processing technologies and is available both on-site and in the cloud.

We develop advanced technology for fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML), helping global organizations make real-time decisions through advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.

Why Join Our Team

We offer an international and specialized environment where you can grow, innovate, and develop with purpose, contributing to a safer and more transparent financial ecosystem. We prioritize vision, agility, and speed to deliver exceptional customer experiences and have established lasting and trusted relationships with leading financial institutions, fintechs, and commercial companies worldwide.

We adopt a strong risk culture and expect all team members, regardless of their role, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one or more engineering teams. You will report to the Head of Engineering and work daily with the Product Manager and Senior profiles in your team, as well as with the Staff Engineers who provide cross-functional technical support to your area.

We measure success by how well the team decides, delivers, learns, and grows, not by how many decisions pass through you. The team autonomously resolves routine work, consults Staff Engineers for technical challenges, and you for organizational issues. You ensure everything runs smoothly without anyone becoming a bottleneck.

We are evolving towards domain-organized and more autonomous teams; your role is to consolidate this change.

What You Will Do in This Role

Personas

Responsible for the growth, performance, and well-being of your teams.
Drive career development by progressively exposing individuals to higher-level responsibilities and facilitating transitions between technical and managerial careers when appropriate.
Monitor workload and detect burnout or stagnation in a timely manner.
Participate in hiring and ensure new hires integrate well.

Ways of Working

Ensure the team has a clear mission, ownership, and decision-making levels.
Guarantee that ceremonies function without needing to direct them, unblock when necessary, and correct the cause.
Protect the team's focus from parallel work and organizational noise.

Delivery

Create conditions for predictable and sustainable value delivery: clear priorities, realistic commitments based on capacity, complexity, and risk, and visible and timely escalated risks.
Monitor the team's predictability (planned vs. delivered) and drive corrective actions when it deviates.

Technical Health

Ensure clear technical leadership and space for Senior and Staff Engineers to exercise it and grow others.
Guarantee that each sprint reserves capacity for technical debt, security, and maintenance, and that quality, reliability, and incidents are managed with a focus on learning.

AI in Development

Drive the useful and responsible adoption of AI tools in the development cycle: provide space for experimentation, measure their real impact, and ensure security and confidentiality.

Product and Business

Understand the domain, customers, and business well enough to make good decisions.
The Product Manager decides functional prioritization; you provide early engineering constraints, risks, and opportunities and unblock coordination when it gets stuck. Ensure the team understands why what they build matters.

Organization

Collaborate with other Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, Heads of Engineering, Product, Platform, and Professional Services.
Detect systemic problems that are not resolved within the team and escalate them where necessary, thinking about the entire organization.

What We Are Looking For

Professional Experience

At least 3 years of experience as an Engineering Manager with direct responsibility over people.

Education

University degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Software Engineering, or related disciplines.

Languages

Native Spanish and English at B1 level or higher.

Hard Skills

Theoretical and practical knowledge of agile methodology (scrum). (Required)
Demonstrable history of building teams that function autonomously: you have created clarity, ownership, and ways of working, not just coordinated work. (Required)
Solid foundation as a software engineer: sufficient context to understand risks, trade-offs, and technical debt without needing to decide the architecture. (Required)
Experience working with Product in planning and team commitments, respecting their role in prioritization, and ability to question scopes and deadlines with arguments.
Clear communication upwards, downwards, and sideways, including giving difficult feedback and representing risks to stakeholders. (Required)
Experience in fraud prevention, AML, payments, fintech, or regulated environments. (Desirable)
Experience with high-volume, low-latency systems in production, including incidents, guards, and reliability practices. (Desirable)
Experience with AWS, Docker, and Python. (Desirable)
Additional training in leadership or people management. (Desirable)
Experience with agile frameworks and supporting organizational transformations or domain-organized teams. (Desirable)

Additional Information

Position located in Madrid, with a 50% hybrid work model.

Lynx Tech prides itself on being an organization committed to equal opportunities, regardless of age, gender, disability, marital status, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Our commitment is to offer an inclusive and accessible selection process for all individuals.

Our Offer and Benefits

By joining Lynx, you will enjoy multiple benefits, such as:

We take care of your well-being with medical insurance, life insurance, and access to Wellhub.
We promote flexibility through a hybrid and collaborative work model.
We enhance your growth with specialized training and career opportunities in a global technological ecosystem focused on data and AI applied to fraud and AML.
We aim to make your workdays more accessible, so you will have restaurant tickets and family support measures.

Take Your Next Professional Step Here

If you are interested and meet the requirements, apply now or share this opportunity with someone you think would be ideal for this role.

At Lynx, we hire based on what you can do and how you do it. We value applications without distinction of gender, age, origin, orientation, disability, or any other personal condition.

Want to know more about us? Visit our website https://lynxtech.com/

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