Engineering Manager (FX Risk Management)

Ebury is a global fintech, headquartered in London, helping businesses move money across borders through FX, payments, and lending. As an Engineering Manager in the Málaga hub, the mission is to build and lead the teams that build the best client risk management application in the market. The role focuses on client risk management, which helps clients understand, manage and reduce their exposure to foreign exchange risk, through products and capabilities that identify currency exposure, define risk management strategies, and protect against adverse currency movements through hedging solutions. Office setup: Malaga office, hybrid with 4 days in the office and 1 day working from home. The hiring process has 4 stages: Intro Chat (~30 min), Hiring Manager Interview (~30 min), Technical & Systems Design (~60 min), and Hiring Manager & Product Leader (~60 min).

Responsibilities

Build & Grow the Team: Own hiring end-to-end, setting high standards and coaching engineers through actionable feedback, clear growth paths, and performance management; Delivery Ownership: Translate ambiguous business outcomes into clear roadmaps, sequence work, manage risk, and deliver reliably at a sustainable pace; Technical Leadership: Guide architecture and design reviews for high-scale, event-driven transactional systems on AWS and BigQuery; Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with Product and Design to shape customer solutions and influence strategic trade-offs; Operational Health: Ensure production-grade stability, humane on-call loads, testing standards, CI/CD, and strong observability; Responsible AI Adoption: Integrate AI tools into development workflows safely and effectively while maintaining complete ownership of shipped code

Requirements

Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams with a track record of mentorship and high delivery standards; Solid CS foundation with hands-on credibility building/operating distributed systems at scale (AWS, event-driven architecture, APIs); Ability to define an interview bar, run rigorous hiring processes, and close exceptional talent from scratch; Hands-on usage of AI coding tools and strong opinions on how teams best leverage AI for productivity and product capabilities; Focus on client value, pragmatic scoping, and high discipline around money-movement systems (idempotency, reconciliation); Fluency in English with exceptional ability to articulate complex technical ideas and align cross-functional teams

Nice to have

Fintech/payments/regulated domain experience; Web & mobile channel exposure

Benefits

Competitive Package: Strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and comprehensive benefits; Career Progression: Clear leadership paths, senior mentorship, and room to grow across technical and organizational domains; Premium Equipment: High-end MacBook Pro or equivalent Linux hardware; Collaborative Culture: Inclusive, high-performing environment rewarding technical excellence, decision-making, and constructive challenge; Hub Leadership: Opportunity to help shape the Málaga office's culture, talent density, and engineering standards from day one