Engineering Manager
Kantox, Spain

You will be part of our top-notch team of developers, Barcelona beach-based (literally ocean views all year long from your workspace).

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Kantox software engineering team in Barcelona! We work mainly with Ruby, Elixir, Java, R, Python, Docker, Ember.JS and RabbitMQ. You will work with a self-motivated multi-disciplinary multi-cultural team that views software development as an extreme team sport. Your responsibilities will be as heavy as you can possibly carry.

Our platform core is primarily based on Ruby on Rails but we also make good use of Elixir and Elixir/Phoenix as well. You will work with a self-motivated multi-disciplinary multi-cultural team that views software development as an extreme team sport.

If you have Engineering Management experience you know that the responsibilities do not fit into a bullet point list. However, some of the most prominent areas of work are:

• Making sure all developers have everything they need, from hardware and morale to perfectionism and career path.
• Finding areas with poor communication and rewiring them.
• Building and enacting workflows in a way that reduces surprises to zero.
• Building and fostering corporate culture towards desired behaviour.
• Carefully setting up and modifying incentives so that they bring maximum value.
• Identifying problems, analysing and participating in their permanent resolution.
• Questioning everything and constantly with the aim to revise to the better.

• Previous commercial experience of high-level programming, preferably in different languages.
• Previous commercial experience in a leadership position with demonstrable results.
• Conceptual knowledge of CSS, JS, AWS, TDD, Jira, Agile, Docker, Data Science, QA, contract testing, concurrency and a long et cetera.
• Team player with strong opinions capable of building consensus for the causes that they are passionate about and equally capable of accepting the direction once a decision has been taken.
• Healthy paranoia regarding all those things that can possibly break, especially people.
• Ability to take a complex feature and explain it to a dog with satisfactory results.
• Self-driven, autonomous personality capable of moving ahead in the agreed direction with minimal supervision.
• Ability to broker multiple high-value projects with colliding priorities, understanding who to ask to be informed and who to inform.
• Fundamentalist fervour in attention to detail.

• High fluency in English.

• An environment of innovation, accountability, and constructive feedback
• A diverse and multicultural team of over 40 different nationalities
• Grow your role and build your career with our learning and development opportunities.
• A collaborative and inclusive culture of sharing and teamwork. Build connections for life.
• Hybrid working and flexible hours so you can work when and where you feel best
• Some testimonials: The culture and the people at Kantox make me want to recommend Kantox as a place to work. There is a good balance between learning and growing and support from fellow team members. I feel like the people are very welcoming and make Kantox an easy place to feel at home."

• Competitive salary
• Sponsored learning budget
• Free private health insurance
• Free Spanish, English and French lessons

• Relocation package if needed

• Flexible working hours + short Fridays
• Hybrid work model

• 29 days of annual vacations

• Gym discounts and free sports activities

• Restaurant Ticket with monthly credit and regular cross-team lunches

• Fresh fruit and unlimited coffee

• Pizza Fridays

• Beautiful office with incredible 360-degree views of Barcelona

Kantox is a leading fintech company developing sophisticated Currency Management Automation software solutions that help companies to automate their foreign exchange processes and leverage currencies for growth.

We are a 180-person strong team, split between London and Barcelona. So far, we’ve raised over 30 million and became profitable in 2018. Thanks to our clients, we continue to grow at a fast pace. Clients in 75 countries have already exchanged more than USD $18 billion with us!

In October 2022, BNP Paribas signed an agreement for the acquisition of Kantox. Kantox will continue to operate as an independent company, now with the experience and market power of BNP Paribas behind it. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed in the coming months.

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