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AAbound
Madrid, Spain3 months ago
Grade
Lead
Work format
Hybrid
English level
B2, upper-intermediate
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We’re redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. While traditional lenders rely almost entirely on credit scores, we look at the full financial picture - how much you spend, and what you can afford to repay to build a deeper, more accurate understanding of each customer's unique financial situation.
And we've shown it works at scale. We’ve issued over £1.3bn in loans directly to customers while delivering market-leading credit performance - for every 10 defaults the industry expects, we see only 3. We also reached profitability just 2.5 years after launch.
Backed by £2bn+ of funding from top-tier investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank, we’re recognised as one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs (Sifted, CNBC). Now, we’re expanding into new markets and product lines - and we’re looking for ambitious people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and grow with us.
We're looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead technology delivery for Abound Spain. This role will be responsible for adapting, deploying and operating Abound’s lending platform in Spain, ensuring it meets local business, operational and regulatory requirements while remaining aligned with our global technology strategy.
This role combines hands-on software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership and team management, reporting to the Spain Director and to the Chief Product Officer. While remaining actively involved in software development, you will act as the technology owner for Spain, ensuring Abound’s global platform is successfully localised, integrated and operated within the Spanish market.
You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Risk, Operations, Compliance and external technology partners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. You will help shape the local technology roadmap, ensuring that Spain benefits from the strength of Abound’s existing platform while adapting it to the needs of the local market.
We value engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, take ownership beyond writing code, and are equally comfortable discussing architecture, integrations, operational resilience and software delivery. This is an opportunity to play a key role in launching and scaling Abound’s business in Spain while remaining close to the technology.
At Abound, you'll be part of a culture that values autonomy, curiosity and continuous improvement. You'll work with a modern Python-based technology stack, gain deep exposure to consumer lending and fintech, and can build a scalable technology operation from an established global platform.
What success looks like
Who you are
Strong experience building and maintaining production systems in Python
Experience leading engineering teams or complex technical projects
A hands-on engineer who enjoys solving technical problems while providing technical leadership
Experience designing solution architectures for business-critical systems
Experience adapting and deploying shared technology platforms to meet local market, operational and regulatory requirements
Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures and modern software engineering practices
Experience integrating third-party technology providers and external platforms
Experience collaborating directly with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Strong engineering judgement with the ability to make pragmatic technical and architectural decisions
Experience maintaining highly available production environments with a focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence
Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a delivery-focused mindset
Experience working with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms
Experience within consumer lending, retail banking or regulated financial services
Good understanding of the end-to-end lending lifecycle, including loan origination, servicing and collections
Experience working with lending platforms rather than building products entirely from scratch
Experience localising global technology platforms for regulated markets
Experience integrating Open Banking providers, payment providers, credit bureaus, identity verification, fraud prevention and collections platforms
Experience evaluating and selecting third-party technology vendors
Experience supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery and operational resilience initiatives
Experience operating technology within regulated environments, understanding governance, auditability, information security and operational controls
Highly desirable
This position is based in Madrid with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days per week on-site in our office in Las Rozas, Madrid.
About Abound
We’re redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. While traditional lenders rely almost entirely on credit scores, we look at the full financial picture - how much you spend, and what you can afford to repay to build a deeper, more accurate understanding of each customer's unique financial situation.
And we've shown it works at scale. We’ve issued over £1.3bn in loans directly to customers while delivering market-leading credit performance - for every 10 defaults the industry expects, we see only 3. We also reached profitability just 2.5 years after launch.
Backed by £2bn+ of funding from top-tier investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank, we’re recognised as one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs (Sifted, CNBC). Now, we’re expanding into new markets and product lines - and we’re looking for ambitious people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and grow with us.
About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead technology delivery for Abound Spain. This role will be responsible for adapting, deploying and operating Abound’s lending platform in Spain, ensuring it meets local business, operational and regulatory requirements while remaining aligned with our global technology strategy.
This role combines hands-on software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership and team management, reporting to the Spain Director and to the Chief Product Officer. While remaining actively involved in software development, you will act as the technology owner for Spain, ensuring Abound’s global platform is successfully localised, integrated and operated within the Spanish market.
You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Risk, Operations, Compliance and external technology partners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. You will help shape the local technology roadmap, ensuring that Spain benefits from the strength of Abound’s existing platform while adapting it to the needs of the local market.
We value engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, take ownership beyond writing code, and are equally comfortable discussing architecture, integrations, operational resilience and software delivery. This is an opportunity to play a key role in launching and scaling Abound’s business in Spain while remaining close to the technology.
At Abound, you'll be part of a culture that values autonomy, curiosity and continuous improvement. You'll work with a modern Python-based technology stack, gain deep exposure to consumer lending and fintech, and can build a scalable technology operation from an established global platform.
Our technology stack
Who you are
Highly desirable
What you will be doing
What success looks like
This position is based in Madrid with a hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days per week on-site in our office in Las Rozas, Madrid.
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