(RD) Senior Engineering Team Lead
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
The Sr.ETL is the "Captain" of a single squad. This is a squad leader role focused on delivery predictability, technical excellence, and day-to-day execution. You are a Senior+ Engineer who manages people, not a manager who used to code; if you cannot open the IDE and debug a production issue, you cannot perform this role.
Meet the Job
- Delivery Mastery: Optimize the team’s "Idea to Production" cycle time and strengthen delivery predictability.
- BS Detector: Use your technical depth to spot unrealistic estimates, fragile designs, or risk blind spots.
- 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.
- Talent Density: Team growth performance calibration, involved in hiring , and succession planning for your squad of 6–9 engineers.
- 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.
How About You?
- You have 5+ years of experience and have shipped production code recently. Web, Mobile, Backend (Angular, Kotlin, Swift, Python, …)
- You have an explicit desire or experience leading people but remain an active technical contributor.
- You possess high emotional intelligence and resilience under pressure.
- You are a strong unblocker who translates and synthesizes rather than just relaying messages.
- You are based in Madrid and open to coming into the office once a week.
The team: Product & Platform Department HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 23 open in Product & Platform Department. 12 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
CI/CD (18 of 23), LLM (12 of 23), GitHub (11 of 23), Microservices (9 of 23), Angular (8 of 23), JavaScript (8 of 23), Android (7 of 23)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) posted Oct 13
- Senior AI Engineer posted Oct 12
- Platform Engineer posted Oct 12
- Senior AI Engineer posted Oct 6
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Oct 1
- Senior AI Engineer (Android) posted Sep 28
- AI Applied Software Engineer (Android) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer (Android) posted Sep 22
- AI Applied Software Engineer (iOS) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer (iOS) posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 22
- AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 22
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Sep 16
- Staff Engineer I posted Sep 3
- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) posted Sep 2
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Aug 25
- Product Manager posted Aug 17
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Jul 31
- AI Applied Software Engineer posted Jul 31
- Senior Database Engineer posted Jun 24
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Jun 10
- Senior AI Applied Software Engineer posted Apr 1
From the team and dates on Backbase's own job board.
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