Engineering Manager (Banking)

Location: Hybrid setup in Valencia, Alicante, Zaragoza, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Alcobendas, or Lleida, Spain

Company

hirify.global designs AI-centric digital transformation solutions, modernizes IT infrastructures, and develops next-generation systems for banking, insurance, and industrial customers. This role supports a new Valencia tech hub launched with DKB Group.

What you will do

• Lead an engineering team responsible for Person Master Data, Tax & Exemption Orders, and Power of Attorney domains.
• Partner with HR to recruit and onboard engineering staff.
• Complete the handover of existing Person APIs and establish the team’s operational and development autonomy.
• Build effective working relationships with the Product Owner and business stakeholders, enabling autonomous management of priorities and dependencies.
• Maintain team engagement, structured domain learning, coaching, and sustainable performance.

Requirements

• Experience establishing strategic prioritization with a Product Owner across feature delivery, defect mitigation, technical debt, and refactoring.
• Ability to provide active technical leadership through system design, deep code reviews, and pragmatic coding contributions when needed.
• Ability to lead architectural discussions across Reactive and MVC paradigms and address complex compliance and regulatory constraints.
• Ability to manage and justify divergent stacks, including Reactive Kotlin with Coroutines and MVC Spring Boot, according to business and performance requirements.
• Ability to develop expertise across both technical stacks and the Person Master Data, Tax, and Power of Attorney domains through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Ability to guide recruitment for stack agility and support engineers learning complementary paradigms.
• Ability to cultivate psychological safety, identify burnout or boreout risks, mediate conflict, and sustain team health.
• Fluent English at minimum B2 level is required.

Nice to have

• German language skills.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Significant software development and architecture experience.
• Passion for Java/Kotlin, the Spring ecosystem, AWS, GitLab, microservices, Kafka, and Vue.js.
• Proactive problem-solving, strong work ethic, effective communication, analytical thinking, adaptability, and continuous learning.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work, flexible schedules, and compressed Fridays.
• Personalized development plans and training programs.
• Meal vouchers, life insurance, telecommuting support, and flexible compensation including health insurance, childcare, and training.
• Relocation package with financial support, guidance, and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Referral, wellness, psychological support, smart office, events, and international corporate culture programs.
• Inclusive environment focused on diversity, cooperation, mutual respect, and equal opportunities.