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Engineering Manager in Madrid

Spotahome

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Job Description

Who are we?

Let’s face it - finding a place to live in ranges from moderately painful to abysmal. Taking time off work for multiple viewings, competition for the best properties, and relentless admin fees make the process time consuming, lengthy and complicated. At Spotahome, we are on a mission to reinvent the property rental experience by making it transparent, instant, and exciting. Loved at last: Unreal estate.

We’re an online marketplace offering anyone, anywhere a comprehensive listing of apartments, rooms, studios, and student residences in the city of their choice. Our home checkers personally check thousands of rooms taking professional photos, HD video tours and designing floor plans, meaning potential tenants can find their new home 100% remotely.

We’re looking for a customer obsessed, results driven, and technically fearless Engineering Manager to join us in changing the rental industry, from our new hub in Clerkenwell, London.


Spotahome has raised a total of $72 million in capital. It is a private series B company backed by Kleiner Perkins, Passion Capital and Seaya Ventures as main investors. Investors also include Travis Kalanick (Uber), Drew Houston (Dropbox), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp), Arthur Kosten (Booking.com), amongst others. Since launching in 2014, we’ve grown to over 300 people. The rental market in Europe is worth $500B per year (https://bloom.bg/2dPsBDJ)… this is Day 1!

 

What is the purchase decision team?

  • Imagine yourself in the shoes of a customer looking for a new home to live in an innovative platform as Spotahome. Deciding where to live is possibly one of the most important decisions a person might make at any given life stage. The work of your team will give the customer peace of mind while making that decision. You will help them find the perfect home, at an affordable price in an area that they love with all required information for them to build enough trust to kick off the booking process.
  • You will lead the Purchase Decision Team, part of the Customer Tribe. The Customer Tribe’s mission is to take care of our customers, our potential tenants. We live for the customer, and we strive to create the best rental experience and shape their perception of real estate forever. The Purchase Decision Squad is responsible for the acquisition of new customers as well as the optimisation of their discovery experience allowing them to find their perfect apartment. They also need to present enough relevant information to earn the customer’s trust to be able to proceed to the booking stage.

 

What would you be doing?

  • As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a growing engineering team , establish and identify goals  for the team, contribute to growing it and provide structure and direction to deliver value to their customers. The key to success at this stage of the journey is managing growth and delivery as well as keeping the team motivated. This is a unique opportunity to have a tremendous impact as a technical leader!
  • You will work with a team of highly skilled Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers and QA Engineers, and you will enable  them to set the direction of the team. Along with the Technical Leads and Engineers, you will have to ensure our technology and architecture solves customer problems effectively.
  • You will find the balance of managing teams and staying connected to technical details, as well as external technology trends. On a day-to-day basis, you will partner and communicate with our Madrid and London offices, quickly make technical and organisational decisions, and help grow and develop new and Senior Engineers.
  • You will join a very fast-paced startup environment ensuring that your team delivers the best product in the market and the best tech tools for our Listers, Renters, and the Spotahome operations and support teams. The technical decisions and products your team delivers will be used by millions of people across the world to find their homes. It is a huge challenge that requires both a technical and an entrepreneurial mindset. You will be challenged every day with different technical and business problems and you will independently decide how to solve them, while communicating with and working in close partnership a diverse, global team.
  • You will help us build an engineering culture of speed, learning, and rapid iteration. You will support your team members to grow as engineers and be successful at Spotahome. You will be part of hiring and onboarding new members of the organization.

 

Right now we use:

  • PHP for our backend services
  • JavaScript, React and NodeJS for our backend-for-frontend and frontend layers
  • React Native for our mobile applications
  • Scala, Akka, Python and Go for several purposes
  • REST APIs for synchronous communication among services and RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication on an event-driven architecture
  • GraphQL API as the entry point for out customer-facing apps (web and mobile)
  • Docker to containerize our services, and Kubernetes to deploy them
  • Kafka, Redshift and Google data suite for data reporting

 

What we value

  • Our team has a true passion for creating clean, functional and well-designed code. We love Software Design Patterns, and emphasise reliability, scalability and quality in all of the work we do.
  • We are an agile team, with some members working remotely, so we have value strong and open communication. We are fans of solid software architecture and we read and apply some of the DDD principles to create the best product team in a microservices environment. All teams are independent and own their own CI/CD with frontend and backend completely decoupled. We deploy several times a day which means we can see our code in production in record time.
  • We’re scaling fast…. Like really fast. With that comes some ambiguity, so you’ll need to be able to move fast and make decisions that will impact our developers and our customers.
  • We love learning and we love learners. We don’t expect you to know everything, but we want you to be passionate about learning and self-improvement… regardless of how much experience you have.

Bonus points: It’d be great if you have an open Github account we could take a look at… please include it in your CV/Application if you do!

 

Our People and Culture

  • We were international from the start. Our four founding partners lived all over the world before getting together to create Spotahome and we’re now a team of over 25 different nationalities.
  • We live for the customer and embrace simplicity, we trust in trust and constantly innovate - we truly believe in our mission to make renting as simple and fast as getting a coffee.
  • We understand that rush-hour can be horrible, and have flexibility around working hours, and there’s no problem with working from home when you need to. We want you to be in the frame of mind to do your best work.
  • We don’t want to brag…. But we think our engineers are pretty awesome. We work with cutting edge technologies and are big contributors to opensource (check out our github - https://github.com/spotahome). We encourage all of our engineers to get out into the meet-up space, and constantly sponsor and attend tech talks.
  • We have a focus on continuous personal development and love learning. For this reason, everyone has their own learning and development budget to help them grow…. As long as you teach us everything too :)

 

Diversity Statement

Here at Spotahome we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees.

Everyone is welcome. We don’t discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

We want to facilitate everyone in bringing their best selves to our interviews, so if there are any adjustments we can make for our process to be more inclusive, please let us know.

 

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