Engineering Manager — Web

About Stark

Stark builds the world’s most powerful electric motorcycles. From the VARG MX to the road-legal VARG EX & SM, our bikes have won world championships and are engineered to outperform anything with a combustion engine. We’re based in Sant Boi, Barcelona, growing fast (77% year‑on‑year) and building a team that will take us even further. Our mission is to lead the way toward a sustainable motorcycle industry by reducing plastic and CO2 pollution.

Role

The Engineering Manager – Web owns the delivery and technical health of both the Frontend and Backend web teams. This hands‑on leadership role involves product and project management, bug triage, and ensuring the web stack meets business needs. The primary domain is e‑commerce, but scope extends to any web‑related challenge that surfaces across the company.

Team & Delivery Leadership

• Manage and grow the Frontend and Backend web engineering teams: hiring, 1:1s, career development, performance reviews.
• Own sprint planning, prioritization, and day‑to‑day project management across both teams.
• Be the single point of accountability for getting things shipped—coordinate across design, product, QA, and external vendors as needed.
• Step in personally to unblock critical issues: debug production incidents, write code, review PRs.

E‑Commerce & Web Platform

• Drive the architecture, reliability, and evolution of the e‑commerce platform (catalog, cart, checkout, payments, order management).
• Own integrations with payment providers, ERP systems, and third‑party services.
• Ensure the platform handles high‑volume traffic and transaction spikes without degradation.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the full stack.

Technical Ownership

• Maintain high code quality standards through code reviews, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed of delivery with long‑term maintainability.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and deployments (AWS); handle DevOps tasks including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Keep the security posture strong—WAF configuration, dependency management, access controls.

AI & Tooling

• Drive adoption of AI‑assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) across both teams to accelerate delivery and code quality.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI tools and integrate them into the development workflow where they add real value.

Cross‑Functional Problem Solving

• Act as the go‑to technical resource for any web‑related need that arises across the company.
• Build internal tools, dashboards, and automations when they solve real problems.
• Collaborate closely with the IT Director to align web team priorities with company‑wide technology strategy.

Authority & Powers

• Authority to define technical standards, tooling, and workflows for both web teams.
• Decision‑making power over sprint priorities and resource allocation within the web engineering scope.
• Direct access to company leadership for fast escalation and alignment on business‑critical issues.
• Freedom to evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and services that improve delivery or platform performance.
• Authority to propose and drive process improvements across the web development lifecycle.

What You Will Bring to Stark

Must Have

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing engineering teams.
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript across both frontend (React, Next.js, or equivalent) and backend (Node.js, Express, or equivalent).
• Proven experience building and scaling e‑commerce platforms with high transaction volumes.
• Solid Python knowledge for scripting, automation, data processing, or backend services.
• Working DevOps skills: CI/CD pipelines, AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS), containerization, monitoring.
• Experience with payment gateway integrations and order management workflows.
• Track record of managing both product and project delivery—not just technical execution.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and a clear vision for integrating AI into engineering workflows.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Nice to Have

• Experience with headless commerce architectures or composable commerce stacks.
• Familiarity with ERP integrations (SAP, NetSuite, or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Background in B2B and B2C e‑commerce models. <