Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Enablement)

🚀 Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer at Fotocasa Platform & Enablement Team! 🏠 We are Fotocasa Group, Spain’s real estate tech leaders. Now part of the Scout24 Group, we are stronger than ever. We are combining our local market expertise with the power of a leading European digital ecosystem. Our mission: to connect people and homes through intelligent tools and the best market offerings. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform & Enablement team at Fotocasa. This is a highly impactful role that leverages backend expertise to drive platform capabilities and engineering enablement across the organization. The mission of this team is to accelerate and improve the effectiveness, reliability, and developer experience of engineering across the organization. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering, infrastructure, developer tooling, and engineering enablement. Your skills are a combination of strong backend expertise with broad technical capabilities across infrastructure and platform domains. You should be comfortable moving between application code, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, infrastructure-as-code, and developer workflows. Most importantly, we are looking for someone with an enabling mindset: a collaborative engineer who helps teams solve problems, reduces friction, and creates scalable engineering practices. What You’ll Do 🏗️ Design and build scalable backend systems and platform capabilities. 🚀 Improve developer experience and engineering productivity across teams. 🛠️ Build and evolve internal platforms, tooling, and shared services. ⚖️ Drive operational excellence through observability, automation, and reliability improvements. 🚨 Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response capabilities. 🤝 Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify friction points and remove delivery bottlenecks. 💡 Support teams in adopting platform capabilities and engineering best practices. ☁️ Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native practices. 🌱 Advocate for maintainable architectures, simplicity, and sustainable engineering practices. ✖️ Act as a technical enabler and multiplier across the engineering organization. Your future team You will work together with highly talented engineers in the Platform & Enablement Team at Fotocasa, where we deliver a strong impact across the organization. Together with your team, you will seek to accelerate the product engineering teams while keeping the infrastructure working at peak performance. What We’re Looking For 💻 Technical Skills Strong backend engineering experience using different technologies. Broad technical profile beyond backend development (“T-shaped” engineer). Experience driving engineering standards across organizations. Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and modern platform practices. Solid software engineering fundamentals and system design skills. Experience in Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platforms. Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems. Familiarity with Developer Experience (DevEx) practices and tooling (logging, tracing, CI/CD, etc.) Knowledge of SRE principles and reliability engineering. 🧠 Soft Skills, Mindset & Collaboration Strong communication and collaboration skills. Ability to work effectively across multiple engineering teams. Pragmatic and outcome-oriented approach to engineering. Strong sense of ownership and operational responsibility. Passion for improving developer experience and team effectiveness. Enabler mindset inspired by Team Topologies: Helping teams succeed rather than creating dependencies. Coaching and guiding instead of gatekeeping. Reducing cognitive load through better platforms and practices. Perks & Benefits 🚀 💰 Competitive Salary + Bonus: We offer a package that reflects your experience and impact. ⚖️ Flexibility & Balance: Enjoy a hybrid work model (2 days in the office), 25 vacation days, and 20 "work from anywhere" days per year. 📚 Professional Development: Grow your skills with an individual budget dedicated to your training and certifications. 🏢 Top-Tier Offices: Work from our incredible spaces in Barcelona and Madrid , featuring terraces, an on-site canteen, and breakfast. ☕🥐 🏥 Health Insurance: Stay covered with 100% premium health insurance for you. 🎟️ Flexible Remuneration: Save on taxes with options for public transport, gym memberships, childcare, meals, and family health coverage. 💻 State-of-the-Art Tech: We’ll provide you with the latest equipment and hardware to do your best work. Fotocasa Group is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Don’t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we strongly encourage individuals from historically excluded groups to apply. We’d love the chance to hear your story and see how you can contribute to our team.