Senior Engineering Manager - Booking & Availability (100% Remote within Spain)

Senior Engineering Manager role at Docplanner to lead the Booking & Availability engineering team within the PMS area, working with Product and Design. The role covers availability, scheduling, booking notifications, the waiting list, and Noa Reception, with a focus on reliable scheduling, team growth, and hands-on AI-native development.

Responsibilities

Own performance management for the team: set clear expectations, give direct and regular feedback, run reviews and calibrations, and deal with underperformance early; Level up engineers: build growth plans, coach through pairing and code review, create stretch opportunities, and grow the next senior engineers and tech leads; Hire well as the sub-area grows; Work with Product and Design to decide where to invest and when to pivot; Own the reliability of the scheduling engine, including correctness under concurrent bookings, recurring rules, time zones, and incident response; Stay hands-on by prototyping, implementing features, and making architectural changes; Keep AI-native practices sharp and keep quality high as delivery speeds up; Track and communicate impact with concrete metrics; Be the connective layer between PMSs and co-design shared modules with other PMS teams; Own Booking & Availability areas: Availability, Scheduling, Booking Notifications, Waiting List, and Noa Reception

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience; 4+ years leading engineering teams in product companies, including hiring, growth, and performance management; Experience driving platform or shared-component work across multiple teams or systems; Experience shipping systems where uptime and data integrity have real consequences, with the technical depth to own architecture and quality calls; A track record of growing people and handling difficult performance situations; Hands-on experience using AI to speed up how code is written, reviewed, and refactored, with good judgment on when not to rely on it; Experience driving AI adoption across a team, including bringing along skeptical or hesitant engineers; Proven ability to manage dependencies and stakeholders across organizations with different incentives; A founder mindset: moving quickly from idea to experiment, validating with real users, and changing direction when evidence says so; Thriving in ambiguity and being the first to try new things; Fluent English

Nice to have

Experience with scheduling, calendaring, or booking systems (availability rules, calendar sync, marketplace booking); Production experience with LLM-powered or conversational products (chat or voice agents), including evaluation and guardrails; Experience with notification systems at scale (SMS, email, push); Exposure to healthcare, clinic workflows, or regulated data environments; Experience working at scale; Spanish or another language of the company's markets

Benefits

Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh (restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, training tax savings); Remote or hybrid work model with hub in Barcelona; Flexible working hours; Summer intensive schedule during July and August; 23 paid holidays with exchangeable local bank holidays; Additional paid holiday on birthday or work anniversary; Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for employee, with subsidized family coverage (medical and dental); Access to hundreds of gyms via Wellhub; Access to iFeel mental wellness platform; Free English and Spanish classes