Frontend Platform Engineering Manager (100% remote-friendly within Spain)

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Frontend Platform Engineering Manager (100% remote-friendly within Spain), Barcelona

Client:

Docplanner Tech

Location:

Barcelona, Spain

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

2

Posted:

01.04.2025

Expiry Date:

16.05.2025

Job Description:

The goal of the team is to provide internal products, tools, services, and frameworks to enable Product teams to focus on customer needs instead of tooling. We work closely with the Product teams to increase their productivity and speed up software delivery.

You will report to the Head of Product Platform and manage a team, focusing on project success and the professional development of your team members.

Role

We are seeking a strategic leader to join our company as the Engineering Manager for the Frontend Platform Team within the Product Platform area. The Frontend Platform Team's mission is to provide Product Teams with frontend tools that simplify and accelerate the development process (currently with a particular focus on building modular frontends a.k.a “microfrontends”). Daily, we develop a suite of tools, automations, standards, and guides that enhance the developer experience, improve consistency, and facilitate rapid experimentation. The team delivers solutions using a platform-as-a-product approach and manages processes from discovery to delivery.

What you will be doing

Managing the team

• Lead a team of 3 to 5 senior software engineers, with the potential for future expansion.
• Facilitates the technical decision in the proper direction that meets the requirements.
• Work closely with the Staff Engineers to develop an accurate technological strategy.
• Facilitate communication within the team and across different departments to ensure alignment on project goals and objectives.

Managing the project

• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Act as a hands-on project manager and people leader throughout the process.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on time within scope and budget.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, tech leaders, product managers, and legal and security teams.

Develop people

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching inside the team.
• Provide regular feedback to team members and help them set and achieve personal career goals.
• Regularly assess the performance of team members.
• Foster a team culture that values collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity.

Qualifications

What will help you thrive?

• Experience in team building and leadership, with excellent mentorship and coaching skills.
• Proven experience as a leader in similar team context - Frontend Platform.
• You have worked in distributed frontend systems - you understand the challenges and opportunities they present.
• Strong technological background.
• You possess strong project management skills and have experience managing projects end-to-end, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Growth mindset: nobody ticks all those boxes above, but a willingness to learn is strongly valued here.

Additional Information

Let’s talk money

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills. The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company.
• Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings;
• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona;
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly);
• Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier);
• 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays;
• Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).

Health comes first

• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental);
• Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership for you and your family with Wellhub;
• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling.

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference. If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

“We believe all humans, in all their beautiful diversity, should have equal rights, dignity and respect. Period.” Mariusz Gralewski, CEO