Head of Engineering Milanuncios (Sellers Cluster) in Barcelona

As HoE you can be part of a huge transformation project. You will be the responsible and representative of the tech area related to Sellers Cluster, a Business Area of Milanuncios. You will have direct impact detecting points of improvement and autonomy proposing, aligning and boosting technical and process initiatives end to end.

You will have impact on stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, CCare…) and you will coordinate development teams (Scrum Squads) and leading transversal initiatives like Flight Levels, Agile, Accelerate, DDD, BDD, etc and above all, everything that can contribute to improve our vertical and cluster.

Main responsibilities:

• You will be the line manager for up to 3 teams (~15 engineers) doing 1o1s, dev talks, performance reviews, hiring, holidays, etc.

• You will act as a Servant Leader helping teams be self-sufficient (solving conflicts, managing dependencies, achieving business goals, improving continuously, increasing performance, etc.)

• You will ensure that teams keep a healthy balance between short term delivery and long term sustainability aligned with the product (i.e. keep technical debt under control, ensuring that teams react on health metrics, etc).

• You will foster a feedback culture based on Radical Candor creating a psychologically safe environment.

• You will need to be up to date with the industry technical standards.

• You will be a gatekeeper of the agile development framework inside teams ensuring the discipline end2end with the guidance of our Agile Coaches.

• You will not make deep technical decisions, we don’t expect you to be the strongest technician. Those decisions will be made by senior individual contributors instead.

• You will detect dysfunctions and propose,lead and shape new ways of working supported by different processes and roles in Adevinta

• You will be in charge of setting the technical strategy aligned with the cluster business goals helping the cluster and teams to find the most efficient way to achieve the goal.

• You will provide management mentorship ( mentoring others EMs and/or developers with track change desire).

• You will plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team , cluster and Marketplace.

• You will be in charge of new strategies and initiatives landing on the cluster ( in example DDD) and teams

Desired skills:

• People management: Assertiveness, empathy, fairness, honesty, humbleness and win for the team fail for the manager.

• Extensive written and oral communication.

• Agile frameworks, lean startup, scrum, kanban, flight levels, OKR, etc

• Leadership: influencer, change driver, people & org developer, strategic thinker

• Technical skills: Be familiar with the concepts of Accelerate metrics and capabilities,DDD philosophy, testing, AWS, distributed systems, SOLID, java, kotlin, reactjs, microservices, kafka, etc

Still there? We have more to tell you

At Adevinta Spain, we believe in the power of a fair and equitable benefits policy. And we do everything we can to make it so. Therefore, we pay special attention to all aspects that are key in your day-to-day life:

• Our work model prioritizes remote work combined with face-to-face dynamics in the office that help us connect and make strategic decisions as a team. There are a minimum of 5 face-to-face days per quarter that you will pick with your team, that is, a minimum of 20 days a year, of which there are 8 days that we have chosen for everyone because they are meetings that reinforce our culture as a company (development conversations with managers, the creation of objectives or the summer celebration and Christmas party)

• Furthermore, you have the option of working up to four weeks a year from wherever you'd like. To do this, you must have a good internet connection and be able to follow the team's schedules.

• Every year we engage in benchmarking against the external market in order to create competitive compensation packages. Moreover, we do have plans that allow you to "flex your gross salary" in order to purchase benefits such as meal vouchers, commuters card, training and child care.

• We have Apple, Dell and Samsung options to choose the hardware that helps you most in your daily life. Choose between a Macbook Pro (14" or 16") or Lenovo X1 laptop and an iPhone 12 or Samsung S21 phone.

• Do you travel by car or motorcycle? We subsidize part of the parking cost

• Your well-being is our priority. We cover fully for your medical insurance and we allow family members to be added to the policy for a discounted price.

• At the Barcelona office, you can enjoy sessions of 1 hour of physiotherapy

• Do you like going to the gym? We sponsor 70% of the monthly fee of your chosen centre/ studio and we have agreements with both Andjoy and McFit for discounted membership prices.

• We enjoy 23 days of paid-time-off a year.

• We offer free breakfast and drinks at our Barcelona office every day of the week. You can also choose to enjoy the freshmade set daily menu in our canteen for an economical price. In Madrid on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays you can enjoy free breakfast.

• Last but not least, you have 5 extra days to attend conferences and we offer one entrance ticket per year

What we want to achieve, together

At Adevinta Spain, we work hard so that millions of people can find what they are looking for through our six marketplaces, building new connections that help us make a positive impact on the planet.

We are Fotocasa, habitaclia, InfoJobs, coches.net, motos.net and Milanuncios. Every day, 1 in 2 people search for a new opportunity in one of our marketplaces in Spain. And they find it.

And to do so, at Adevinta Spain we create an environment where you are your best version of yourself every day, where you can give your all, and where your uniqueness adds to our diversity. Diversity in every sense of the word, in our people, in our products and our community. Because equality is at the heart of everything we do. Better as equals.

Adevinta is so much more than just a workplace. We have obtained the Great Place to Work certificate and 91% of our employees say that Adevinta Spain is an excellent place to work. An international accreditation that shows that we are one of the best companies to work for!