AILY LABS

Engineering Manager

AILY LABS

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Madrid • Spain

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About the role

  • Own the definition and delivery of monthly and weekly goals for your team, in partnership with Product and AI Principals, ensuring they are specific, measurable and directly tied to business impact
  • Maintain a single, transparent source of truth for roadmap, priorities, and status in JIRA and review it with stakeholders on a weekly basis
  • Continuously track progress against commitments using clear metrics and proactively unblock or re‑scope when risk to goals appears
  • Run effective planning and refinement: make trade‑offs explicit, cut or postpone low‑impact work, and ensure the team is always working on the highest‑leverage items
  • Translate company and product strategy into 2–3 clear focus areas for the team per month and communicate them so every engineer knows “what matters now” and “what success looks like”
  • Use data to drive improvements: define and monitor a small set of team KPIs (e.g. lead time, defect rate, on‑time delivery, system SLOs) and lead experiments to improve them
  • Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews that explicitly link individual goals to team and company goals, and track progress over time
  • Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company’s values
  • Look after our engineers and help them grow

Requirements

  • Proven ability to turn high‑level business objectives into a prioritized engineering roadmap and clear, trackable goals
  • Demonstrable experience running data‑driven delivery (OKRs, team KPIs, or similar) and reporting progress to stakeholders at different levels
  • Track record of converting impossible goals into smaller achievable ones while planning for longer term complete solutions to protect focus and ensure teams deliver on their highest‑impact commitments
  • Strong command of agile delivery tools and practices (e.g. backlog management, forecasting, metrics), using them to create visibility rather than bureaucracy
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering or a relevant field
  • 3+ yrs. experience in a people management role
  • At least 5+ years of experience as a Developer or QA
  • Full-stack experience a plus
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills in English at all levels
  • Scrum/Kanban experience a plus
  • Demonstrated effectiveness in fast-paced, complex situations
  • Ability to drive thorough refinement sessions with the team
  • Refined sense of prioritisation based in impact generation
  • Demonstrable ability to drive improvements through metrics
  • Valid authorization to work in the European Union (no visa sponsorship available).
Benefits
  • Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
data-driven deliveryOKRsteam KPIsagile deliverybacklog managementforecastingmetricsfull-stack developmentQAperformance reviews
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationprioritizationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitycoachingteam buildingtransparencystrategic thinking
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceMaster's degree in engineering