Engineering Manager

📍Eindhoven HQ (3 days in office) | 🗓️ 40hrs per week

• Strategy & Organisation: Translate Product and Tech strategy into clear team goals, improve team structure and ways of working, and keep the team aligned with engineering standards and organisational priorities.
• People & Hiring: Lead, coach, and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and retention.
• Delivery & Execution: Own end-to-end delivery for your team(s), manage scope and risks, remove blockers, and drive predictable execution without compromising quality.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the main engineering partner for Product and Design, co-own planning and prioritisation, challenge decisions constructively, and communicate progress and risks clearly to stakeholders.
• Technical Direction & Quality: Partner with senior engineers to guide architecture, engineering standards, code quality, documentation, test automation, and technical debt management.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the team owns its services in production, including observability, incident management, post-mortems, runbooks, SLOs, security, privacy, and compliance-related work.
• Continuous Improvement: Use team metrics, delivery insights, incidents, and retrospectives to improve team performance, collaboration, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
• Budget & Cost Awareness: Manage team-level tool, activity, and cloud/resource usage responsibly, and propose investments where they create clear value for the team or business.