Senior Backend Python Engineer to design and lead scalable services in critical environments. The role offers a hybrid model with 60% remote work and professional growth opportunities.
Hybrid in BarcelonaNo Spanish needed
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Job details
Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.
Requirements
Have the right to work in Spain
Indra doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Be near Madrid for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
Have senior-level experience
Senior-level role.
University degree
“Titulación en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, Aeronáutica, Electrónica o similar.” — per the ad.
This job was automatically translated to English.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
🚀 What do we offer?
- Innovative and high-impact projects: You will work with cutting-edge technologies, with impact both nationally and internationally.
- A career plan tailored to you: Designed to boost your growth and professional development.
- Autonomy and Flexibility: You will have the freedom to organize your work, with a real work-life balance adapted to your pace.
- Stability and future: Long-term projects in a leading company with more than 60,000 professionals, with financial security.
- Days off: 22 working days of vacation +8 personal days.
- Close and transparent environment: You will enjoy direct and fluid communication with managers and colleagues, in a collaborative and open environment.
- Continuous training: through Open University and Udemy for Business (over 6,000 courses to specialize!)
- Employee discounts and benefits: Enjoy advantages in gyms, restaurants, shops, leisure, and much more as an Indra Group employee.
Requirements
What we're looking for
🎯 What are we looking for?
Don't worry if you don't meet 100% of what we're looking for. Go ahead, get to know our proposal, and tell us what you can bring!
🔹 Degree in Telecommunications, Aeronautical, Electronic Engineering, or similar.
🔹 Senior experience in aeronautical communications systems and UAS/UAV platforms.
🔹 Knowledge of C2, LOS, BLOS, SATCOM architectures and BVLOS operations.
🔹 Experience in the design, integration, and validation of tactical networks and mission data transmission systems.
🔹 Knowledge of redundant architectures, communications resilience, and operational continuity.
🔹 Experience in requirements management and the full systems development lifecycle.
🔹 High level of English.
Nice to have
⭐ We will especially value
✔ Experience with Tactical Datalinks, MANET, FANET, IP Mesh Networks, and private LTE/4G/5G.
✔ Knowledge of SDR (Software Defined Radio), cognitive networks, and multi-carrier networks.
✔ Experience in protocols and standards such as MAVLink, STANAG 4586, and STANAG 7085.
✔ Participation in defense, aeronautics, or autonomous systems programs.
✔ Experience in validation, certification, and testing of complex communications systems.
The role
Chief Engineer UAVs Communication. San Fernando de Henares (hybrid)
In our positioning as a leading company in the defense field, we want to strengthen our team with a Chief Engineer as the technical lead for UAV Communications, defining the strategic vision and converting ideas into high-value operational capabilities.
What you'll do
💡 What will you do?
🔹 You design communications architectures for UAS platforms, ensuring secure and resilient connectivity.
🔹 You define C2, LOS, BLOS, and SATCOM links for complex operations and BVLOS environments.
🔹 You design and integrate tactical networks and multi-link mission solutions.
🔹 You lead modeling, integration, validation, and communications testing activities.
🔹 You guarantee interoperability, availability, and continuity of communications in critical scenarios.
🔹 You participate in the definition of requirements, certification, and commissioning of aeronautical communications systems.
🔹 You act as a technical reference, collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering, integration, and operations teams.
Hiring process
2 steps2 interviews1–2 weeks in all
Revisión de tu perfil
Primera toma de contacto
With an equipo de selección · Phone call · 5–10 min
Breve llamada para conocerte y resolver dudas.
Entrevista técnica
With an el equipo
Reunión con el equipo, que explica el proyecto y las tareas diarias y explora tus conocimientos técnicos; puede incluir breves pruebas de competencias e inglés.
Oferta y bienvenida
- La entrevista técnica puede incluir breves pruebas de competencias psicológicas e inglés si es necesario.
- La primera llamada puede llegar desde un número desconocido.
Hiring process
🕓What is our selection process like?
- Profile Review 🔍: We evaluate your experience and skills to determine if you fit what we are looking for.
- First Contact (5-10 min) 📞: If you receive a call from an unknown number, it's our team! It will be a quick conversation to get to know you and answer any questions.
- Interview with the talent acquisition team🤝: We want you to get to know us better as a company: values, career model, skills.... so that both you and the Talent team can analyze if there is a match.
- Technical Interview 🤝: You will meet with the team, who will explain the project and daily tasks. We will also explore your technical knowledge. Additionally, we will conduct brief tests on psychological competencies and English (if necessary).
- Offer and Welcome 🎉: If everything goes well, you will join our team and start this new stage together!
Estimated Process Duration: 2 weeks.
About Indra
Indra is a global technology and consulting company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and a leader in IT and defense systems. It provides advanced solutions in air traffic management, defense electronics, cybersecurity, and digital transformation for clients worldwide. With a workforce of over 50,000 employees, Indra operates in more than 140 countries, making it one of Europe's largest defense and technology firms.
In Spain, Indra has a strong presence with major offices in Madrid, Alcobendas, and other cities, and it is a key player in the national defense and aerospace sectors. The company offers a wide range of roles for international professionals, from engineering and cybersecurity to project management and software development. Indra's work culture emphasizes innovation and technical excellence, and it actively recruits international talent, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in defense, space, and digital transformation.
- Industry
- IT and Defense
- Founded
- 1993
- Employees
- 50,000+
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spain
- In Spain
- Madrid, Barcelona, Alcobendas
- Website
- indracompany.com
Good to know if you are moving
- Indra is a major defense contractor, offering opportunities to work on advanced defense systems like SCAPA and NGWS.
- The company has a strong focus on innovation, with significant investment in R&D and technology development.
- Indra provides hybrid and remote work options for many roles, offering flexibility for international hires.
- With offices in Madrid and Barcelona, Indra offers a chance to live in Spain's two largest cities.
- Indra is a global leader in air traffic management, with its systems used in over 100 countries.
In their own words
About the company & team
At Indra Group, we protect what matters most.
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Additional information
As a company, we understand equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. Based on this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, equal pay, and work-life balance in professional and personal life.
This commitment is realized through the promotion of respectful and inclusive work environments, where all people are treated with dignity, can develop professionally, and have equal opportunities in selection, training, and promotion processes, offering a work environment free from any discrimination based on sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance.
¡INDRA is a Top Employer 2026 company! Join a company certified as one of the best employers in Spain, thanks to our comprehensive HR management and the conditions we offer our professionals.
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