Welcome to DKB Code Factory…. 

{ { … a_place_to_stay_yourself:

} } ; 

{ { … a_place_to_stay_curious:

The Senior Engineering Manager will build and scale a manager‑of‑managers layer and a reusable engineering platform across five teams in Valencia and Berlin, enabling rapid, secure, and maintainable delivery of a new business banking product. This role combines people leadership (hiring, coaching, performance calibration) with hands‑on ownership of engineering standards, platform architecture, and delivery practices in a regulated banking context.

} } ; 

{ your_responsibilities: [

• Lead and grow a manager‑of‑managers layer: hire, coach, and develop founding Engineering Managers and create clear career pathways across the Valencia site.  
• Own the engineering operating system: establish and enforce standards for code review, testing, CI/CD, architecture review, observability, and incident handling.  
• Drive multi‑team delivery from discovery through MVP and production hardening, resolving cross‑team dependencies and maintaining release discipline.  
• Build a modular, reusable business‑banking platform that accelerates future use cases and reduces duplicated implementation effort.  
• Ensure service reliability, performance, security, auditability, and operational readiness for customer‑facing mobile and backend systems.  
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Architecture, and Compliance to align priorities and deliver customer value.  
• Represent Valencia engineering in site‑building, talent planning, and leadership alignment with the Head of Valencia.

] } ;

{ following_qualifications_would_be_in_line_with_our_desired_profile_for_this_position: [

• Proven experience as a manager of managers, directly leading and developing multiple Engineering Managers across teams.
• Demonstrable track record of multi‑team product engineering leadership (not only project/delivery management).
• Concrete examples of hiring, performance management, and building quality systems (scorecards, calibration, promotion decisions).
• Credible engineering depth: experience making technical trade‑offs, influencing architecture, and explaining technical decisions to engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience with engineering standards and platforms: CI/CD rollout, automated testing, observability, and incident response processes.
• Experience operating within regulated environments (security, compliance, audit readiness) or equivalent domain experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to create psychological safety and coach managers.
• Fluent in English; Spanish language skills are a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), Kubernetes, and containerised deployments (nice-to-have).
• Familiarity with CI tooling (GitLab/GitHub Actions, Jenkins), observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, tracing), and mobile stacks (Kotlin/Swift or React Native) (nice-to-have).
• You're passionate about your work, but also know how to enjoy your free time!

] } ;

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Actively ship production code to the web products
• Work closely with your dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
• Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, Typescript

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

About the Role

📍Hybrid from Madrid or Valencia 

You will engineer the core of our proprietary internal platform that democratizes AI across the company. This is not a standard full-stack role maintaining existing systems, you will build the factory that enables other teams to create autonomous AI Agents. You will design Chain of Thought reasoning flows, integration layers, and agent logic that allow AI to execute complex business tasks at scale. This is applied AI engineering: no model fine-tuning, just sophisticated system design and relentless execution. You will join a new focused team of two engineers, collaborating daily with the AIGO team and cross-functional partners across Global Operations, Customer Satisfaction, and Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and expand our internal AI platform, enabling internal teams to build autonomous AI Agents without deep ML expertise
• Engineer Chain of Thought reasoning flows and integration layers that power agent logic
• Build reliable, long-running AI Agent systems that handle failures at scale and prevent cascading outages when external LLM providers go down
• Design node-based tools for intent retrieval, context management, and API routing
• Program agent logic using TypeScript, Node.js, Express, React, Next.js, and SQL
• Maintain a high bar for software quality and reliability while innovating at speed
• Integrate AI-native tooling (Cursor, Claude Code) into your development workflow without sacrificing code quality

Key Requirements

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Express, React, Next.js, and SQL
• Practical knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux environments
• Hands-on experience with Chain of Thought (CoT), Agent building, and RAG concepts
• An AI-First mindset: you already use Cursor or Claude Code and possess the engineering rigor to validate AI-generated code
• Proven track record of shipping software to production

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with Cursor or Claude Code 
• Knowledge of ML theory (helpful for context, though fine-tuning is not part of the role)

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days: Set up your development environment, adopt AI-first workflows, gain a functional understanding of our internal AI platform, ship a bug fix to production, and build your first AI Agent using our platform.

First 60 days: Deep dive into a key product area’s architecture, design and implement a small-scale AI feature, and demonstrate independence in troubleshooting and shipping without hand-holding.

First 90 days: Take ownership of a significant AI feature from concept to production, contribute to internal documentation on Agent best practices, and actively participate in architectural reviews as a fully integrated team member.

One year: Transform a portion of our AI platform with a major AI-driven application feature, become recognized as a stakeholder in building and optimizing AI Agents across Groupon, and maintain a high bar for software quality while innovating at speed.

We Are Interested In

A true builder who wants to engineer the platform that powers AI Agents, not just write prompts. You bring a balance of “Old School” engineering discipline (reliability, structure) and “New Wave” AI agility. You are excited to use the latest AI-native stack to create sophisticated internal tools that drive global operations and shape how a global company operationalizes AI. 

#LI-KH1  #LI-Hybrid