Software Engineering Manager

We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager to work with a talented cross-functional engineering team on our main SaaS product. You will be there to support on a day-to-day basis, working on all kinds of projects to innovate and improve the working efficiency of our engineers, along with checking in with the team weekly and helping motivate and inspire.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Creating an environment where your team can thrive. Removing obstacles, enabling autonomy, and ensuring people feel heard, supported, and motivated.
• Taking full ownership of your team's delivery and outcomes, ensuring their work aligns with strategic objectives and creates measurable impact for the business.
• Walking side by side with your engineers in their growth journey, offering clear, timely feedback and helping them reflect, learn, and progress in their careers.
• Challenging your teams to think creatively and ambitiously, cultivating a culture of innovation that seeks better ways of working and delivering value.
• Enabling strong domain ownership within your team, helping engineers develop a deep understanding of their problem space and taking full accountability for the quality, performance, and evolution of their domain.
• Acting as a technical reference point for your team: you will participate in and influence architectural and implementation discussions, bring clarity to complex technical decisions, and ensure that high engineering standards such as maintainability, scalability, and operational quality are consistently applied.
• Defining and leveraging meaningful team, operational, and product metrics to guide decisions, track progress, and improve performance over time.
• Acting as a strong communicator and advocate for your team, helping connect their work to broader company goals and leadership insights.
  
  
  

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their condition.

Requirements

About you:

• You are an experienced leader of high-performing, cross-functional, autonomous development teams.
• You understand the values and principles associated with Agile development and you have hands-on experience in some of the agile frameworks.
• You coach and mentor engineers effectively, creating space for them to grow, learn, and take ownership.
• You care deeply about code quality and maintain a strong focus on test coverage, reliability, and maintainability.
• You have a strong technical background and aren't afraid to go hands-on whether that's reviewing code, diving into system internals, or pairing with engineers to tackle complex problems.
• You have a strong product mindset and enjoy working closely with Product Managers to shape meaningful, user-centric solutions.
• You have experience leading teams through incidents and understand how to support and improve operations in production.
• You have an insatiable appetite for continuous improvement and solving problems
• You understand the importance of, and relationships between, quality, productivity and value in software development
• You know how to balance quality, speed, and long-term value in the software you help build.
• You like to have fun at work!
• You communicate fluently in English. Any other European language is a plus.
• You are able to commute 3 days to our Amsterdam office (Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal).
  
  
  

Benefits

We'll treat you with:

• A challenging role at one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe, with a fun company culture in the heart of Amsterdam.
• 28 vacation days, plus national holidays
• A competitive monthly performance-based commission
• A €40 voucher each month via our benefits platform Alleo - so you can treat yourself, too
• Mental health support through our partnership with OpenUp
• The possibility to use the Lease a Bike scheme after 7 months of employment
• Participation in the pension plan with Bright Pension after 7 months of employment
• A delicious freshly prepared office lunch each day, available for a small contribution
• One extra day off per year - the Treat Yourself Well Day - to recharge and take time for yourself, in your own way