(RD) Senior Engineering Team Lead
Primary stack
LeadershipAI
Job description
About the Position
Join Backbase's Product & Platform Department in Madrid as a (RD) Senior Engineering Team Lead
Responsibilities
- Delivery Mastery: Optimize the team’s "Idea to Production" cycle time and strengthen delivery predictability.
- Talent Density: Own 1:1s, performance calibration, hiring decisions, and succession planning for your squad of 6–9 engineers.
- Hands-on Leadership: Spend ~50% of your time on system design and ~20% on hands-on development like code reviews and unblocking technical issues.
- Conflict Resolution: Mediate interpersonal or cross-team conflicts early to protect team cohesion and delivery.
- BS Detector: Use your technical depth to spot unrealistic estimates, fragile designs, or risk blind spots.
- Emergency Response: During critical incidents, jump in technically or coordinate the response effectively.
- AI-Native Engineering: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, LLM workflows, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of experience and have shipped production code recently.
- Leadership: Explicit desire to lead people but remain an active technical contributor.
- Skills:
- High emotional intelligence and resilience under pressure.
- Strong unblocker who translates and synthesizes rather than just relaying messages.
We Offer
- Ownership: Real ownership means real responsibility. From day one, you set the pace, make the decisions, and see your work land where it matters. You drive the outcomes, you celebrate the wins.
- Ambition without ego: You'll work with people who've shipped things most thought couldn't be done. Direct, down-to-earth, no egos. The kind of team where the best idea wins and everyone's genuinely glad when it does.
- Real AI, running in real banks: We're not waiting for AI to be ready. It already is - running inside banks, serving customers, solving problems that matter, out in the real world today.
- Grow while you build: Annual learning budget, global exposure, and work that moves you forward. Your growth and our mission go hand in hand.
- Wellness that goes the distance: Real support built for the long game. We invest in the people who build the product, not just the product.
- Hybrid model: No micromanagement, offices across the world. The mission is clear. Where you do your best work is up to you.
About the Company
Backbase is at the forefront of building an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks. We raise the bar because we've seen what's possible when you don't settle.
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