# (RD) Senior Engineering Team Lead

The Sr.ETL is the "Captain" of a single squad. This is a squad leader role focused on delivery predictability, technical excellence, and day-to-day execution. You are a Senior+ Engineer who manages people, not a manager who used to code; if you cannot open the IDE and debug a production issue, you cannot perform this role. Meet the Job Delivery Mastery: Optimize the team’s "Idea to Production" cycle time and strengthen delivery predictability. BS Detector: Use your technical depth to spot unrealistic estimates, fragile designs, or risk blind spots. Hands-on Leadership: Spend ~50% of your time on system design and ~20% on hands-on development like code reviews and unblocking technical issues. Conflict Resolution: Mediate interpersonal or cross-team conflicts early to protect team cohesion and delivery. Talent Density: Team growth performance calibration, involved in hiring , and succession planning for your squad of 6-9 engineers. Emergency Response: During critical incidents, jump in technically or coordinate the response effectively. AI-Native Engineering: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, LLM workflows, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecyc

- **Id**: 354763
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/backbase-rd-senior-engineering-team-lead>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Madrid, Spain
- **Countries**: ES
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-24T12:46:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T08:25:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 106
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1688
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 18103
- **Name**: Backbase
- **Domain**: backbase.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/backbase>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 53000
- **Max usd**: 111000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_cell
- **Sample n**: 10

## Technologies

- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 106

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T19:13:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.479
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 106
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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