BACKEND ENGINEERING, MADRID

Backend Engineering
Backend Engineering Chapter Area Lead - Santander Digital Services

Country: Spain

Hello! Welcome to the place responsible for developing the technology that improves the lives of 160 million customers around the world!

This job offer is an opportunity not only to join a great company but also to collaborate in projects that have a real impact on society.

We are looking for a Back Engineering Chapter Area Lead based in our Abelias / Luca de Tena office, with at least 10 years of specific technical expertise.

Lets get to know each other!

One of our guiding principles is continuous innovation, working with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies and adopting all the leading market technology to work with the best tech stack.

We recently received Top Employer certification in Spain, Europe and globally for the sixth consecutive year and we are one of the Worlds 25 Best Workplaces. We are very proud to be an equal opportunities organisation and we are building a dynamic and proactive team. All we ask from you is that you bring a positive attitude and share our values and a commitment to development of cutting-edge technology, no matter where you come from or where you end up.

Your role

We are looking for a Back Engineering Chapter Area Lead based in our Abelias / Luca de Tena office, a key team in our technology ecosystem.

The Chapter Area Lead is the functional line report of a group of Chapter Leads that belongs to this specific technical expertise, back engineering (backender).

Aligns the practice and generate the environment that foster spread knowledge and products across the organization.

Your main responsibilities will be:
- Standardization
Defines together with Chapters, competences, and best practices across all the organizations areas: microservices architecture, patterns and practices.
- Competences mapping
Owns the complete picture of competences, distribution and demand within the organization in his/her specific expertise as backender engineer.
- Supports skills development
Ensures that Chapter Leads within the organization are properly equipped to ensure that skills development happen within their chapters
- Facilitating Knowledge Sharing across areas
Ensures that chapter members contribute to the organization sharing knowledge across different areas
- Share Vision
As leader of leaders, must ensure that companys strategy and vision are spread across all chapters
- Assess and Prioritize Opportunities
Ensures that chapter activities that are relevant for the organization are properly managed to get done in time and manner
- Improve Engineering Productivity
Lead and boost the importance of improve the productivity in the way we develop software, pushing for the use of any tool or practices that might increase to produce more with less cost.

Your main tasks will be:
- Chapter Leads members Mentoring and Coaching
- Maintain the big picture of chapters members allocation and demand
- Ensure that best practices are spread across the organization
- Gather information about companys products and ensure that Chapter Leads are equipped to prepare chapters members to use those products
- Creates or foster creation of technical contents for internal and external use
- Foster a culture of engineering based on Tech Manifesto principles
- Create forums, communities and events that ensures alignment and reinforce the culture of engineering and innovation within the company

From technical perspective, a Backend Chapter Area Lead:
- Acts as a senior Backend engineer by delivering high quality results in your chapters and providing technical guidance to the rest of Backend Chapters.
- Design, and oversee the development of scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems.
- Establish and uphold best practices in software engineering, system design, and development processes.
- Collaborate effectively with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions.
- Optimize backend systems for superior performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, evaluating their potential to enhance the organizations systems and processes.

What youll bring

Youre sure to fit in if you like technology and are constantly learning about new developments, as well as having an interest in better understanding the risks faced by the Bank. In addition to developing your technical skills, you should also be interested in improving your soft skills

If you think youve got what it takes, these are the key skills well be looking for:
- University degree, preferably in relevant subject such as Engineering or Science.
- Strong technical skills and specialist experience: Extensive experience in backend development with proficiency in programming languages such as PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, or Go.
- Excellent communication skills
- Talent/people skills
- Ability to Inspire people
- Experience building and maintaining software applications: Proficiency in designing and managing APIs.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization technologies (e.g.
, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Fluent English.

What is the Be Tech! experience like?
- Hybrid working model (working remotely some days and meeting with the team in the office on other days).
- Flexible working hours.
- Possibility of travelling to collaborate with teams in other countries.
- Opportunities to develop your career in different overseas units and countries.
- Continuous training in innovative technical fields so you are always up to date and have the tools you need to do your job.
- Career plan to ensure your professional growth and that your efforts are duly rewarded.
- Highly competitive salary and bonuses.
- Financial benefits (special interest rates for loans, preferential banking terms, life insurance, etc.)
- Social benefits (gym and medical centre on the premises, daily meal subsidy with a choice of seven restaurants, parking, shuttle service to the centre of Madrid, discounts and offers with different companies for Santander employees and much, much more that we will tell you all about when you arrive!)

What now?

If you like what youve read so far, youll like it even more once youre on board.
.. So why not join us?

PHP, Python, Java, Node

PHP, Python, Java, Node