Lead/Senior Software Engineer

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 are looking for a Senior Product Manager with expertise in Motors, Automotive Marketplaces, or Vehicle Aggregators to join the team, reporting directly to a Director of Product. You will own the end-to-end experience for the Motors vertical, identifying product-market fit for new services that cater to both private sellers, buyers and professional car dealers. This is a high-impact role where you will balance the complexity of high-ticket transactions with user simplicity, ensuring that buying or selling a vehicle on Wallapop is transparent, trustworthy, and efficient. This role requires a blend of industry insight, product vision, and leadership skills to drive initiatives that address the unique challenges of the automotive market. You will work in a cross-functional team, partnering daily with software engineers, designers, data scientists, and stakeholders like marketing, sales (professional accounts), operations, and customer service. What You Will Do 👇 * Shape the Motors Ecosystem: Contribute to the long-term vision for Wallapop’s automotive category. You’ll prioritize a roadmap that boosts inventory quality, generates high-value leads for professionals, and makes listing a vehicle effortless for everyone. * Tailor the Experience: Adapt our core marketplace features to meet the unique demands of the automotive world—think specialized search tools, smart vehicle categorization, and intuitive dealer management systems. * Launch New Services: Partner with Operations, Finance, and external partners to design and launch value-added services like vehicle history reports and financing options. * Experimental Discovery: Use data and experimentation (such as A/B testing) to improve the user journey from the first search to the final contact, reducing uncertainty and improving the quality of every lead. * User & Market Intelligence: Act as the voice of the customer. You’ll gather insights from buyers, private sellers, and professional dealerships to deeply understand and solve the friction points of online vehicle sales. * Collaborative Leadership: Guide cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, fostering an environment where high-quality features are shipped effectively and collaboratively. * Evaluate Performance: Keep a pulse on product health and user feedback to drive continuous improvements and service excellence. * Stay Curious: Keep up with automotive trends—from the rise of electric vehicles to new digital retail regulations—and advocate for best practices that keep Wallapop ahead of the curve. What We’re Looking For 🔎 * Product Leadership: Significant experience in Product Management, specifically within automotive marketplaces, motors classifieds, or vehicle aggregators. You have a track record of navigating the unique dynamics of C2C and B2C transactions. * Market Mastery: You understand the car-buying journey deeply—from how private sellers list their vehicles to how professional dealers use tools like DMS or inventory feeds to reach buyers. * Technical Collaboration: You are comfortable bridging the gap between product vision and engineering. You can discuss API integrations and system architecture effectively to ensure technical feasibility and scalability. * Strategic & Analytical Thinking: You enjoy solving complex problems and can use data to back up your decisions. You’re comfortable with data analysis tools and methodologies. * Collaborative Influence: You have a natural ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels, fostering a culture of transparency and shared goals. * Language: Fluency in English is required to collaborate with our international team. What Would Be A Plus 🚀 * Machine Learning Familiarity: Experience or interest in ML concepts, such as price estimation models or recommendation algorithms, to help us provide smarter insights to our users. * Spanish Language Skills: While our main language is English, Spanish proficiency is a plus   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. 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 * Free office meals, lunch selection from different providers * 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. Expertise Interview - run by the hiring team, focus on the required core skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60 minutes. Case Study Submission - you will be assigned a task to submit within 5 up to 7 days where you will be able to showcase your expertise / technical skills required for the role. Case study Interview - You will present the case study to showcase your product expertise. This usually takes 60 minutes. Stakeholder Interview - run by relevant stakeholders reflecting the reality of the context of the role, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up. 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.

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We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   📍Barcelona, Spain | 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance  + benefits  Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office ⭐ Engineering Management at Monzo  Engineering Managers at Monzo are part of cross-functional, autonomous teams and groups. Our teams are mission driven, and typically include Product Managers, backend, web and mobile engineers as well as data scientists, designers and subject matter experts relevant to that mission. Teams are organised into groups, and then collectives - we aim to keep our line management structure as shallow as possible, and for teams to directly own decision making relevant to their work. Engineering Managers are accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes for their area - that means supporting and developing best in class engineering talent, as well as creating an inclusive team environment for people to do their best work. You’ll be responsible for structuring, organising, supporting and challenging your team to deliver on their mission. You can read more on the expectations of Engineering Managers on our Progression Framework. 🔑You’ll play a key role by... * Leading a high performing, senior team of engineers. You’ll be supporting, coaching, and developing them through their careers.  * Partnering closely with other disciplines including Product, Design, Research, and Data, to build out product strategy, vision and mission setting, and goal setting. * Taking accountability for delivery across your squad(s), collaborating with Technical Leads and Product Manager. * Actively fostering a high bar for engineering excellence within your teams. * Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices. * Lead on communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focus space for engineers to do their best work. * Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards. 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… While this is not a role which requires hands-on-coding, we are looking for an experienced manager who has a strong technical and delivery background and has worked as a software engineer in previous roles. We recognise that engineering managers lead in different ways, we’re looking for someone who:  * Has worked on user-facing mobile products - ideally, you’ll be able to discuss the product impact you’ve made in your previous roles, including working on product strategy, roadmapping, and goal setting. * You have a founder mindset and like taking ownership of anything that will drive business impact.  * Has an understanding of what good looks like for a high-performing team of engineers and ability to chart a course to get there * Is comfortable operating with ambiguous problem areas with a high degree of autonomy. * It’s a bonus if you have experience working in an experimentation led environment. * Has delivery experience and is able to guide the squads in achieving their outcomes. * Focuses on outcomes over processes, who optimises for the highest impact and leverage. * Is able to input, understand and challenge engineering decisions - but to empower the team to make those decisions themselves * Is able to to coach people to achieve their goals * Has a natural ability to inspire and motivate a team The interview process: Our interview process involves three main stages 1. Recruiter Call (30 mins) You'll meet our Engineering Leadership Recruiter to discuss your experience and learn more about Monzo. They'll be your partner and guide throughout the interview process. 2. Initial Call (1 hour) You'll meet with one of our Senior Engineering Managers or Engineering Directors. They'll ask you about your previous experience, in particular people leadership, product delivery and technical leadership. They’ll ask example based questions (‘Tell me about a time when…’) 3. Loop Stage (3 hours 30 mins) The Loop stage consists of 3 x 60 min interviews that take place over 1-2 days (depending on your availability) and one 30 minute reverse interview (more details below). - Team and Org Management (1 hour) An example based interview with 1-2 of our engineering leaders. They’re interested to hear examples from your previous experience on the teams you’ve led, how you’ve shaped and partnered with product, and the impact you had. - System Design (1 hour) You'll partner with a Staff or Principal Engineer on a technical whiteboarding exercise. - Behavioural (1 hour) Similar to Team and Org Management, this is an example based interview with 1-2 Engineering Leaders. This interview focuses on your people leadership style and core behaviours as an Engineering Manager. - Chat with an Engineering Leader (30 mins) At Monzo, we believe interviews are a two-way street. This will be your opportunity to ask us any questions about Monzo, engineering leadership or our teams – whatever’s on your mind.  All things going well, you'll have completed the hiring process 🚀 What’s in it for you: 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance  + benefits  📍Barcelona, Spain ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. 📚Learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences #LI-JS1  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊