Engineering Manager - Content Discovery

About this role

<p>Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us.&nbsp;<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; display: inline !important; float: none;">💫</span></p> <p>Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale &amp; trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience &amp; reach. <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; display: inline !important; float: none;">🌱&nbsp;</span>Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="6">The Challenge 🧩</span></strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Buyer Tribe and lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for redesigning the Home experience and building the next generation of our recommendations platform.<br>You will guide the team through a complex technical and product transformation, including evolving the backend architecture, integrating advanced machine-learning capabilities, and supporting multiple recommendation use cases at scale.<br>You will be responsible for keeping the roadmap healthy and delivery predictable while continuously balancing experimentation, technical quality, scalability, emerging scope, and stakeholder expectations. This includes helping the team handle pragmatic trade-offs between speed and long-term technical sustainability, and creating the clarity, focus, and operating environment needed to deliver high-quality outcomes to ensure the best user experience.</p> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="592">What You Will Do 👇</span></strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="616">Lead engineering for a topic team to ship high-quality software on predictable schedules</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="706">Make sure that the meetings are effective</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="749">Coaches people &amp; the organization</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="784">Provide vision, sense of purpose, and visibility to teams</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="843">Implement process improvements</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="875">Have regular one-on-ones with engineers, where you will:</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="933">Set expectations, provide regular feedback &amp; keep team members accountable (Conduct performance reviews)</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1039">Develop a strong two-way feedback loop where you share organizational context and build a deep understanding of the engineer and how they work</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1183">Support engineers and help reach a resolution when challenges arise</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1252">Craft a fulfilling and engaging work experience through regular career growth and development conversation</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1360">Iterate and improve our engineering processes and technical culture</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1429">Participate in hiring and onboarding of engineers</span></p> </li> </ul> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="1487">What We’re Looking For 🔎</span></strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1517">You have experience leading engineering teams (Ideally +2 years)</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1583">You have very strong verbal English communication skills (Spanish is a plus)</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1661">You are comfortable with participatory management/servant leadership</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1731">Positive attitude, excellent problem-solving, and critical thinking</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1800">Quality-driven, attention to detail, and pragmatic</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1852">Excellent communication skills, adaptability, and eagerness to learn</span></p> </li> </ul> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="1929">What Would Be A Plus 🚀</span></strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1957">Previous exposure to Tribes &amp; Squads.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Do note that all our jobs are <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400