Engineering Manager - Content Discovery

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. 

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 & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach.  Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.

The Challenge

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.

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.

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.

What You Will Do

• Lead engineering for a topic team to ship high-quality software on predictable schedules

• Make sure that the meetings are effective

• Coaches people & the organization

• Provide vision, sense of purpose, and visibility to teams

• Implement process improvements

• Have regular one-on-ones with engineers, where you will:

• Set expectations, provide regular feedback & keep team members accountable (Conduct performance reviews)

• Develop a strong two-way feedback loop where you share organizational context and build a deep understanding of the engineer and how they work

• Support engineers and help reach a resolution when challenges arise

• Craft a fulfilling and engaging work experience through regular career growth and development conversation

• Iterate and improve our engineering processes and technical culture

• Participate in hiring and onboarding of engineers

What We’re Looking For

• You have experience leading engineering teams (Ideally +2 years)

• You have very strong verbal English communication skills (Spanish is a plus)

• You are comfortable with participatory management/servant leadership

• Positive attitude, excellent problem-solving, and critical thinking

• Quality-driven, attention to detail, and pragmatic

• Excellent communication skills, adaptability, and eagerness to learn

What Would Be A Plus

• Previous exposure to Tribes & Squads.

Do note that all our jobs are Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.

Wallapop is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.

We sponsor visa processes for international candidates when applicable and provide legal & admin support along the process combined with a competitive relocation package.

Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following Perks & Benefits:

• Generous individual learning budget of 2k per year
• Group and individual English, Catalan & Spanish lessons as part of our working day
• Private Health Insurance with Alan
• Flexible working hours + intensive Fridays
• Flexible remuneration to deduct from gross salary (kindergarten/food/transport check)
• Gym & Wellness plan, including physiotherapist in the office
• Generous referral Program & Charity Donation
• Bonus for weddings & newborns
• Wallapop Renta (Tax income support)
• Monthly plan for free shipping, bumps & home-pick-up on our services
• Work anniversary Gifts and Birthday Surprises
• Contribution towards your WIFI in your monthly payroll
• One-off payment based on compensation package to go towards setting up your home office
• Relocation package (monetary support and legal advice) and visa sponsorship, if applicable
• 26 holidays per year
• TOP hardware of your choice (latest Apple or Windows)

What does the hiring process  for this position look like? **Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts.**

Intro Call - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes.

Technical Task - you will prepare a practical case to present in order to assess the skills required for the role. 

Expertise Interview - run by the core team, focus on the hard skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes.

Stakeholder Interview - run by the hiring team and relevant stakeholders, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up, as well as on leadership skills aligned with the role requirements.This usually takes 60 minutes.

Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes. 

Offer  - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing.