📍 Location: Spain and Portugal (with occasional travel to client offices in the UK and US)
🕒 Full-Time | Senior Leadership Role
About the Role
We are looking for a highly experienced Engineering Lead to drive the modernisation and transformation of a major platform. This is a long-term strategic initiative requiring deep technical expertise and leadership to scale infrastructure, refactor monolithic systems, and lead large-scale migrations.
You will lead a cross-functional engineering team, ensuring that technical decisions align with business goals. This role requires someone who understands the complexities of large-scale system transformations, with prior experience in platform modernisation, and high-impact engineering migrations.
Key Responsibilities
🔹 Technology Leadership & System Modernisation
- Lead the decoupling of large monolithic systems into scalable, modular architectures.
- Drive major migrations in backend frameworks, databases and cloud infrastructure.
- Oversee performance optimisation, infrastructure scaling, and technical debt reduction.
- Ensure engineering best practices.
🔹 Engineering Strategy & Execution
- Define technical roadmaps, ensuring modernisation efforts are practical, scalable, and deliver business value.
- Lead architectural discussions on backend services, databases, and cloud platforms.
- Collaborate with Product & Business teams to ensure alignment between technical execution and commercial objectives.
- Set and enforce engineering excellence standards (CI/CD, DevOps, security, monitoring, and reliability).
🔹 Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Build, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary engineering team working across backend, frontend, and infrastructure technologies.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and business leaders.
- Own team structure, onboarding, and capacity planning to ensure high performance and retention.
🔹 Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Act as a technical advisor to C-level executives, providing clear insights into risks, trade-offs, and opportunities.
- Ensure alignment across engineering, product, and business teams in defining and achieving modernisation goals.
- Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technical Expertise
Having hands-on experience in the following areas will be highly valuable:
✅ Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot, microservices architecture).
✅ Frontend Development: Solid experience with React, TypeScript, and modern frontend technologies.
✅ Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL solutions.
✅ Cloud & Containerisation: Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure).
✅ CI/CD & DevOps: Strong understanding of automated pipelines, cloud deployment strategies, and observability.
✅ Scalability & Performance: Designing high-load, low-latency platforms.
What we’re looking For
✅ Proven Experience in Large-Scale Migrations & Modernisation – You’ve led the transformation of major platforms.
✅ Strong Technical & Architectural Vision – You make strategic, high-impact decisions while maintaining hands-on technical credibility.
✅ Leadership & Communication – You can inspire and align technical teams and executives.
✅ Results-Oriented Mindset – You focus on outcomes, efficiency, and business impact.
Preferred Experience & Qualifications
🎓 Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Required).
🌍 Europe-based, with flexibility for travel.
What We’ll Offer You in Return
🚀 The chance to join an organisation with triple-digit growth that is redefining how software is built.
🌍 A multicultural community of top-tier tech experts to collaborate with and learn from.
💰 A competitive compensation package aligned with your expertise.
📈 Growth opportunities inside the company as we expand our thought leadership in various industries.
🏆 The opportunity to work with industry-leading companies driving cutting-edge innovations.
🌍 A flexible and hybrid working environment with offices in multiple locations worldwide
Come and join our #ParserCommunity.
