Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Manage software engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, feedback sessions, career growth discussions, and structured development plans.

• Oversee performance management, including setting objectives, conducting formal evaluations, handling promotion cases, and addressing challenging performance conversations.

• Lead the recruitment process by defining capability requirements, conducting interviews, and making final hiring decisions.

• Assist new engineers with a structured onboarding process and support during their probation period.

• Guide engineers towards advancement in senior individual contributor and technical leadership career paths.

• Utilize metrics such as throughput, cycle time, DORA metrics, and incident trends to pinpoint issues related to personnel, capabilities, and staffing.

• Collaborate with technical leaders and engineering teams to ensure that teams possess the necessary skills, capacity, and support.

• Stay technically engaged to challenge estimates, assess technical risks, and evaluate engineering practices.

• Promote healthy operational practices, including equitable distribution of on-call responsibilities.

• Identify capability deficits, performance risks, engagement challenges, and retention threats, communicating these to engineering leadership.

• Champion continuous improvement by transforming identified challenges into measurable actions.

• Lead initiatives related to developer empowerment, operational maturity, internal automation, security, or cloud efficiency.

• Contribute to maintaining consistent engineering management standards across a distributed organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• A minimum of 3 years of genuine line-management experience with software engineers.

• Proven track record of overseeing one-on-ones, performance reviews, career development, hiring, and performance management.

• Experience in making challenging personnel decisions, including managing underperformance and, when necessary, exits.

• Demonstrated success in developing engineers into senior roles, technical leadership positions, or expanded responsibilities.

• Strong technical background to assess engineering quality and engage in discussions regarding architecture, cloud systems, delivery practices, and operational risks.

• Familiarity with contemporary cloud-native engineering environments, CI/CD, and production software operations.

• Working knowledge of incidents, on-call practices, observability, and production reliability.

• Acquainted with modern AI-enabled or LLM-based products and their engineering environments.

• Experience utilizing engineering metrics and delivery data to identify issues and inform management decisions.

• Ability to balance empathy and support with clear expectations, accountability, and direct feedback.

• Excellent communication skills with confidence in collaborating with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

• Proficient in English and experience working effectively with distributed or international teams.

• Experience in regulated, high-availability, or enterprise environments such as fintech, banking, telecommunications, or similar fields is highly valued.

• Strong written and verbal English skills (C1+).

• Located within the European Union and able to work on a B2B contract.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement.

• More than 20 days of paid time off.

• Provision of Apple equipment.

• Budget allocated for training and professional development.

• Senior engineering leadership role with significant responsibility for people development and team effectiveness.

• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced engineers in building modern cloud and AI-enabled products.

• Work within an international and distributed engineering environment.

• Substantial opportunity to influence engineering practices beyond your immediate team.

• Chance to lead cross-functional initiatives with a visible impact on the organization.

• Collaborative environment working alongside senior technical and engineering leadership.