GetGround is developing the infrastructure for a global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in companies. Trillions of dollars of assets are tied in inefficient illiquid markets - think property, ships, factory machinery & infrastructure to name a few.
Enveloping an asset in a company unlocks liquidity by enabling the right legal basis for asset ownership, governance and exchange. However companies, one of humanity's greatest inventions, are stuck in the past. We are digitising and automating the company, through:

• Programmatic incorporation and administration


• e-wallet financial infrastructure


• Automated accounting incorporating machine learning techniques and


• A secondary market platform built for scale

To start, we're tackling UK private residential investment property, with £1.3 trillion of stock and £30-50 billion in transactions a year.

Senior Engineering Manager | Lisbon, Portugal (working remotely in Portugal is possible - as long as you can come to the Lisbon office approximately once per month once)

Our mission is to create a fairer and more productive world - by making assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible.

We're democratising asset ownership. Historically wealth in society has come from capital growth rather than income, fuelling inequality. By creating a liquid asset marketplace, we think we can change this. Check out our blog.

The Engineering team is led by CTO and Co-Founder, Misrab, a Stanford Computer Scientist. You can read about his philosophy to product engineering here.

The role

An Engineer with experience of building a highly effective, diverse engineering organisation. The Senior Engineering Manager will play a critical role in enabling the GetGround engineering teams to scale themselves and their impact. Our tech stack includes a handful of Golang microservices on the backend, and React.js on the frontend, all deployed over GCP. The Senior Engineering Manager will enable teams to maximise their leverage, working closely with team leads.

Engineers at GetGround work on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.
The role comes with immense scope for growth and impact in a zero-ego, zero-BS environment. We're building a team that works together to solve hard problems that will enable us to achieve our mission to make assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible.

What you will do

• Work with GetGround leaders across the company to create and drive toward the vision of GetGround's mission


• Work with Engineering Managers to drive the roadmap and priorities for their teams, and work with dependencies across the company


• Support the engineering management team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability


• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of GetGround


• Recruit great engineers, partnering with our recruiting team


• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers


• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of GetGround's engineering management team

Who you are likely to be
A people leader

• You will have deep experience of engineering management and of organising engineering teams with a focus on both value delivery and long-term architecting for robustness, extensibility & agility


• You will also have experience building and scaling engineering teams, understanding that recruiting the best talent is critical. You will have invested significant time in this in the past and understand its value


• You trust and empower your teams to be accountable for their work and delivering excellence


• Servant leadership is core to who you are as an engineering leader


• You will have an engineering following that respects you as a caring and inspiring leader

A technical leader

• Your passion for technology is only eclipsed by your passion for enabling your teams.


• You are able to deep-dive technically when needed, asking great questions, challenging assumptions and ensuring the right choices are made


• You are able to assess tradeoffs when making technical decisions


• You are open to trying new technologies


• You see it as critical to stay close to your teams to deeply understand their roadblocks
  and are respected as a coach and mentor

You leverage effective processes

• You have run both short and long development cycles, with customer impact as a critical priority


• You have an experimentation mindset, and use this approach to deeply understand what is optimal for your team, embracing new ideas and validating the right approach


• You proactively reduce admin burden on your teams


• You are respected for removing roadblocks (both engineering and broader) and creating a high morale in your organisations


• Customer centric - you will enjoy shipping frequently to gain vital feedback from our customers.

Essential: The right to work in Portugal + fluent spoken and written english

About us
Hello, we are GetGround. We have been in stealth mode building amazing products to disrupt a marketplace. We are building a new global network for trading assets, starting with residential property. We have just secured Series A funding and are on a significant growth trajectory that has the confidence of QED, Mosaic as well as several prestigious private investors.
Our Co-Founder and CEO Moubin qualified as a Doctor and went on to have a successful career at McKinsey and private equity house, APAX. Moubin started GetGround with his brother and our CTO, Misrab. Misrab is a Stanford Computer Scientist that led the scaling of the Gojek Data Science team in Asia.
We are proud of how far we have come since 2018, but humbled and excited at what there is still to achieve. Our values sit at the core of everything we do - pursuit of excellence, feedback obsessed, No BS and healthy egos.
If you are great talent, but working somewhere where you don't feel recognised, developed, rewarded or included, your next home could be GetGround. Join us!
Please note, we have a flexible working policy that allows hybrid working. Please ask your Recruiter for more details.
Diversity & inclusion at GetGround
GetGround encourages applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are focussed on and committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
Our benefits

• Competitive salary + excellent stock options


• Competitive health, dental benefits


• Various discounts/benefits via Perks at Work


• Holiday/PTO allowance + 1 day off per month as a mental health day


• Support for conferences and professional learning & development