Tech Lead

About T-Innova

T-Innova has been building management software for sports facilities since 1993, headquartered in Barcelona. Our main product, Deporwin, handles commercial operations, administration, access control, and member management for hundreds of public and private sports centers across Spain and Latin America.

We’re part of Manos Software, a division of Valsoft Corporation, which gives us the backing of a larger group while we keep running as a focused, independent product company.

After 30+ years in this market, we’re at a turning point. The platform is proven and clients trust it, but the architecture needs to evolve to keep up with what customers and the market expect in terms of scalability, user experience, and release speed. We need a Tech Lead who can drive that evolution carefully, without breaking things for the clients who use the system every day.

The role

You’ll own the technical direction and lead the engineering team through a real modernization effort. The platform has a mature codebase and a large installed base, with many clients running customized on-premise environments. This isn’t a clean-slate rewrite. It’s an incremental transformation that has to keep things running while moving the architecture toward something modern and cloud-ready.

What you’ll do

• Assess the current architecture and build a realistic modernization roadmap, prioritizing changes that deliver value without disrupting existing clients.
• Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team. Set technical standards and build a culture where people take ownership of quality.
• Bring in automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability. Lay the groundwork for faster, more reliable releases.
• Identify and lead AI initiatives across the development process and the product. This means both improving how the team works (code generation, test automation, workflow tooling) and building AI-powered features for our clients.
• Design systems that separate business logic from legacy components, support multi-tenant SaaS delivery, and give our web modules more independence.
• Develop strategies for gradual client migration, automated deployment, and reducing per-client maintenance overhead, all while keeping the system reliable.
• Work closely with product, operations, and professional services to make sure technical decisions line up with business priorities.

What we’re looking for

Must have

• Proven experience as a tech lead or senior engineering leader, with a track record of modernizing legacy systems or leading platform migrations in production environments with real users.
• Solid understanding of legacy-to-modern migration patterns (strangler fig, API layering, incremental decoupling) and the pragmatism to apply them where downtime and client disruption are not an option.
• Strong backend architecture skills. Experience designing scalable, maintainable systems with modern stacks (.NET/C#, Python, Node.js, Go, or similar) and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with SQL Server and relational database design, migration, and optimization.
• Hands‑on experience introducing DevOps and CI/CD into teams or codebases that didn’t have them before.
• Practical AI experience. You’ve used AI tools in development workflows (code generation, testing, automation) or built AI-powered features, and you can evaluate new AI technologies and turn them into concrete initiatives for the team.
• Fluent in English and Spanish, written and spoken. Daily work happens in both.
• Available during Spanish business hours (CET/CEST). Remote is fine, but schedule overlap is required.
• Proactive. You spot what needs fixing before anyone asks, propose solutions, and follow through.

Nice to have

• Catalan language skills.
• Experience with PHP/Laravel.
• Familiarity with Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) or similar legacy desktop technologies.
• Experience with Windows Server environments and Remote Desktop Services (RDP) infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture and migrating on-premise clients to cloud-hosted models.
• Background in sports, fitness, or facility management.
• Experience running on-premise to cloud migration programs for a large client base.

Why T-Innova

This isn’t a maintenance job. You’d be reshaping an established platform that hundreds of sports facilities rely on, with real ownership of the technical direction. You’ll have backing from Manos Software and Valsoft to execute. We’re serious about bringing AI into both our development process and our product, and this role leads that effort. And you’d be building on 30 years of market presence and a loyal client base, not starting from scratch.

Compensation and benefits match the seniority and scope of the role.