Engineering Manager
Deeptech RecruitmentDeep Tech Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing European electric mobility company whose products are designed to outperform established combustion technology across performance, emotion and design. The business develops, manufactures and sells premium physical products, with its engineering teams working close to customers, operations and the product itself.
Its wider mission is to accelerate a more sustainable mobility industry by reducing CO2 and plastic pollution without asking customers to compromise on performance. The company is scaling quickly and is looking for an Engineering Manager to take full ownership of the technical health and delivery of its web organisation.
The role
This is a hands-on leadership position spanning both frontend and backend web engineering. You will own delivery, technical direction and team health, while remaining close enough to the code and infrastructure to unblock critical issues.
The primary domain is e-commerce, including catalogue, checkout, payments and order management, but the remit extends to any important web challenge across the business. That could mean resolving a production incident, improving an integration, building an internal tool or helping a data workflow move reliably into production.
The right person has scaled high-volume e-commerce systems, can switch comfortably between frontend and backend problems, and brings the DevOps judgement needed to keep the platform dependable while the teams continue to build.
The company is growing, and the Engineering Manager is expected to create and contribute to a culture of collaboration, ownership and innovation from day 1.
Why consider it
A product that inspires genuine customer and employee passion.
A fast-growing business with strong momentum and ambitious plans.
A creative, international team in the Barcelona area.
Competitive salary and benefits.
Direct proximity to the physical product, its users and the teams building it.
Subsidised lunch, access to an in-house gym and 30 days of paid holiday.
A working culture built around ambition
The company expects people to challenge established ways of working, search for the limits of what is possible and deliver outstanding results. It values clear goals, direct feedback, adaptability, learning from mistakes and high standards without unnecessary hierarchy.
What you will own
Team and delivery leadership
Manage and grow the frontend and backend web engineering teams, including hiring, 1:1s, career development and performance reviews.
Own sprint planning, prioritisation and day-to-day project management across both teams.
Be the single point of accountability for delivery, coordinating with design, product, QA and external partners when needed.
Step in personally to unblock critical issues through production debugging, coding and pragmatic pull-request review.
E-commerce and web platform
Drive the architecture, reliability and evolution of the e-commerce platform across catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and order management.
Own integrations with payment providers, ERP systems and third-party services.
Ensure the platform can absorb high-volume traffic and transaction spikes without degradation.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the full stack.
Technical ownership
Set high standards for code quality through review practices, testing and CI/CD.
Make architectural decisions that balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability.
Oversee AWS infrastructure and deployments, including monitoring, alerting and incident response.
Maintain a strong security posture across WAF configuration, dependencies and access controls.
AI, tooling and cross-functional problem solving
Drive thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor and GitHub Copilot to improve delivery and code quality.
Continuously assess emerging tools and integrate them where they add measurable value.
Act as the go-to technical leader for important web needs across the company, including internal tools, dashboards and automations.
Partner closely with senior technology leadership to connect web priorities with the wider company strategy.
The authority to make things happen
Define technical standards, tooling and workflows for both web teams.
Decide sprint priorities and allocate resources within the web engineering scope.
Escalate business-critical issues directly to company leadership.
Evaluate and adopt technologies, frameworks and services that improve performance or delivery.
Propose and lead improvements across the web development lifecycle.
What you will bring
Essential experience
Solid experience leading engineering teams for international product-focused businesses..
Deep JavaScript and TypeScript expertise across frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js and backend environments such as Node.js or Express.
Proven experience building and scaling e-commerce platforms handling significant transaction volumes.
Solid Python knowledge for scripting, automation, data processing or backend services.
Working DevOps capability across CI/CD, containerisation, monitoring and AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront and RDS.
Experience integrating payment gateways and supporting order-management workflows.
A track record of owning product and project delivery, not only technical execution.
Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools and a clear view of how they should support engineering workflows.
Strong written and spoken English.
Useful additional experience
Headless or composable commerce architectures.
ERP integrations such as SAP, NetSuite or comparable platforms.
Infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
Both B2B and B2C e-commerce models.
Web security and WAF management.
Fast-growing or scaling product companies.
How success will be measured
Team health
Retention, growth, engagement and the strength of the hiring pipeline.
Delivery
Features, fixes and integrations shipped on time and to the expected quality.
Reliability
Platform uptime and performance during high-volume traffic and transaction peaks.
Incidents
Mean time to detection and resolution for production issues.
Engineering quality
Test coverage, review turnaround and deployment frequency.
Business partnership
Turning business needs into shipped solutions with minimal friction.
Inclusion and accessibility
Our client is committed to an inclusive environment in which people of every gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, neurotype and disability can belong and contribute. Diverse teams make better decisions, and equity is treated as a condition for innovation.
If you need reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, including assistive technology, additional time or another format, tell your Deep Tech Recruitment contact and we will support you.
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