Engineering Manager — Web

About Stark

Stark builds the worlds 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.

Were based in Sant Boi Barcelona growing fast (77% year-on-year) and building a team that will take us even further. If you want to work on a product that people are genuinely obsessed with this is it.

Stark will become the global market leader in premium motorcycles. Building premium motorcycles requires innovation and we need your help to make us succeed in building the backend for our AI systems.

Our mission is to lead the way towards a sustainable motorcycle industry by reducing plastic and CO2 pollution.

This will be achieved by building sustainable products that are superior to traditional technology in terms of Performance Emotion and Design.

The Role

The Engineering Manager Web owns the delivery and technical health of both the Frontend and Backend web teams. This is a hands-on leadership role: the EM drives product and project management triages and fixes bugs and makes anything happen that the business needs from its web stack. The primary domain is e-commerce but the scope extends to any web-related challenge that surfaces across the companyfrom payment integrations and order workflows to internal tooling and data pipelines.

We need a technical leader who has shipped and scaled high-volume e-commerce systems can context-switch between frontend and backend problems daily and brings enough DevOps fluency to keep the infrastructure running while the teams build. The right person combines deep JavaScript expertise with solid Python knowledge and the operational instinct to unblock teams fast.

What Youll Do

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 shippedcoordinate 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 strongWAF 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.

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 or equivalent) and backend ( 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 deliverynot 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.

• Knowledge of web security best practices and WAF management.

• Experience working in a fast-growing scaling company.

Performance Criteria

• Delivery velocity: features fixes and integrations shipped on time and at quality.

• Platform uptime and performance under high-volume traffic conditions.

• Team health: retention growth engagement and hiring pipeline effectiveness.

• Incident response: mean time to detection and resolution for production issues.

• Code quality metrics: test coverage PR review turnaround deployment frequency.

• Stakeholder satisfaction: ability to translate business needs into shipped solutions with minimal back-and-forth.

Why work with us

• The chance to work on a product people are genuinely passionate about

• A fast-growing company with real momentum

• A creative international team based in Barcelona

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Direct access to riders race teams and the product this is not a remote-from-the-product role

• Subsidized lunch in our in house restaurant

• Free access to our in-house gym (including weekends!)

• 30 days of paid vacation

At Stark we dont just accept differencewe celebrate it we support it and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees our products and our community.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of gender identity sexual orientation race religion age neurodiversity or disability feels a true sense of belonging. We believe that diverse teams make better decisions and that a culture of equity is a prerequisite for innovation.

Accessibility: If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process (such as assistive technology extra time or a specific format) please let us know at We are here to support you.

We encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are excited to see how your unique perspective can help us grow