Engineering Manager - Comparajá

Engineering Manager | ComparaJá.pt – Lisbon (Hybrid)

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to guide our development team in delivering high-quality software. You will own the delivery process end-to-end, ensuring that our products are built to modern development standards while fostering a culture of excellence and velocity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, experience in coaching and mentoring teams, and a passion for optimising processes to drive efficiency.

This is an office role based in Alvalade, Lisbon.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own the delivery of high-quality software: Lead the technical direction of projects, ensuring that software is delivered on time, meets business requirements, and adheres to the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability.
• Optimise development processes: Continuously review and improve the development lifecycle to increase efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance productivity.
• Coach and mentor developers: Provide hands-on technical guidance, mentorship, and support to the development team. Foster professional growth and engineering excellence through regular feedback, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure modern development standards: Promote and implement best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals and ensure a shared vision across the product lifecycle.
• Technical leadership: Make critical decisions around architecture, tools, and frameworks, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the codebase.
• Stay updated with industry trends: Continuously explore new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure the team is up-to-date with the latest advancements in software development. Especially concerning the ability to rapidly prototype ideas using AI.

About you:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the organisation.
• An analytical mindset to develop the best-fit technical solution.
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills, and knowledge of project management principles.
• An understanding of IT infrastructure, architecture, as well as a good understanding of non-technical parts of the business.
• Comfortable working in an international environment.

Skills Required:

• Experienced working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market, with a track record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual and tech leader
• Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud-based applications
• Our stack is: C#, Python, Nuxt/VueJS, PostgreSQL, all on AWS. The more experience in each the better, but all definitely not necessary.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English required.

Why Join Us:

• Own the technology team. This is a great opportunity to truly own a delivery team and be responsible for a development organisation. You will be taking part in an international organisation and be able to learn from your peers in other countries and the Group CTO
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Work-life balance. We offer a hybrid remote/office job that prioritises being able to manage your life outside work while still maintaining a culture of excellence.

Start date: as soon as possible.

CompaJá.pt is a leading platform for aggregating and comparing financial products and services in Portugal. Founded in 2015 as part Samlino Group we are operating across four European markets, our group empowered over 10 million users last year alone.

At ComparaJá.pt, our mission is to help Portuguese consumers make informed, confident decisions across all areas of personal finance—whether banking, insurance, or utilities—by providing easy access to unbiased, accurate information and free comparisons. Our vision is to become the go-to personal finance platform for consumers, partners, media, and other stakeholders, helping people identify and choose the best solutions for their needs—saving time and money in a simple and transparent way.

What We Offer:

• Hybrid work model: (Lisbon office + remote)
• Health insurance:
• Meal card:
• Transport subsidy:
• Opportunity to work on meaningful projects that power internal operations:
• A supportive, fast-moving, and collaborative team environment: