Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Treatwell as a Software Engineering Manager and lead a talented cross-functional engineering team, supporting their daily work on innovative projects. You will own your team's delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and measurable business impact. Mentor engineers, fostering their growth and career progression. Cultivate a culture of innovation and challenge your team to think creatively. Act as a technical reference point, influencing architectural and implementation decisions. Define and leverage metrics to guide decisions and improve performance. Communicate your team's work to broader company goals and leadership. This role requires strong leadership skills, Agile experience, a strong technical background, and a product mindset.

Requirements

• You are an experienced leader of high-performing, cross-functional, autonomous development teams
• You understand the values and principles associated with Agile development and you have hands-on experience in some of the agile frameworks
• You coach and mentor engineers effectively, creating space for them to grow, learn, and take ownership
• You care deeply about code quality and maintain a strong focus on test coverage, reliability, and maintainability
• You have a strong technical background and aren’t afraid to go hands-on whether that’s reviewing code, diving into system internals, or pairing with engineers to tackle complex problems
• You have a strong product mindset and enjoy working closely with Product Managers to shape meaningful, user-centric solutions
• You have experience leading teams through incidents and understand how to support and improve operations in production
• You have an insatiable appetite for continuous improvement and solving problems
• You understand the importance of, and relationships between, quality, productivity and value in software development
• You know how to balance quality, speed, and long-term value in the software you help build
• You like to have fun at work!
• You are a fluent English speaker
• You are based in Spain and you hold a valid right to work

Responsibilities

• Creating an environment where your team can thrive. Removing obstacles, enabling autonomy, and ensuring people feel heard, supported, and motivated
• Taking full ownership of your team’s delivery and outcomes, ensuring their work aligns with strategic objectives and creates measurable impact for the business
• Walking side by side with your engineers in their growth journey, offering clear, timely feedback and helping them reflect, learn, and progress in their careers
• Challenging your teams to think creatively and ambitiously, cultivating a culture of innovation that seeks better ways of working and delivering value
• Enabling strong domain ownership within your team, helping engineers develop deep understanding of their problem space and taking full accountability for the quality, performance, and evolution of their domain
• Acting as a technical reference point for your team: you will participate in and influence architectural and implementation discussions, bring clarity to complex technical decisions, and ensure that high engineering standards such as maintainability, scalability, and operational quality are consistently applied
• Defining and leveraging meaningful team, operational, and product metrics to guide decisions, track progress, and improve performance over time
• Acting as a strong communicator and advocate for your team, helping connect their work to broader company goals and leadership insights

Benefits

• 28-days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Monthly 40 EUR Treatwell vouchers so you can treat yourself too
• Growth funds for you to develop and grow with your team
• A discount for gym membership
• Mental health support through our partnership with Plumm
• 100% remote position with flexible working
• Annual Treatwell retreat to a sunny European destination
• All the tools / devices supplied to do the best job you can eg. laptop, monitor, keyboard etc