Engineering Manager

📍 Amsterdam (unfortunately, we don't support visa sponsorship nor remote working at the moment)

🕗 32-40h per week

💶 €6,500 - €7,500

About us

Producthero is a rapidly growing SaaS scale-up based in Amsterdam. Our clients include Rituals, Bol, Wehkamp, and Ikea. Over the past five years, we have evolved into an internationally operating shopping advertisement platform with more than 12,000 clients across all European countries. From our office in Amsterdam, our team of 45+ enthusiastic heroes and a growing team of office dogs create an outstanding platform to help webshops and online marketing agencies improve the performance of their product ads on Google.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager, you play a key role in guiding and growing our engineering team, driving the engineering strategy and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will be leading a team of 10-15 team members (divided over 3 sub-teams) and report directly to the CTO. Collaboration is central in your role, as you work closely with the Product Owner, Tech Leads, the leadership team and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals. You coach the team with their projects and ensure a collaborative and safe work environment. 

This role focuses more on your capabilities as a people manager than the depth of your knowledge in tools and technology. 

How you make impact

• You lead, mentor and support the engineering team and help them develop and succeed in their roles. You do this by coaching the team through regular check-ins and development conversations, and encourage a learning culture.

• You help define and drive the technical strategy. You oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope.

• You serve as a bridge between the engineering team and other stakeholders, ensuring that technical considerations are clearly communicated and understood.

• You help grow and structure the engineering team, by identifying skill gaps, contribute to headcount planning and by being a hiring partner to our internal recruiter.

• You promote a culture of open communication and transparency within the team and across departments, and lead by example. 

We look for someone who has

• A background in leadership roles, with proven experience in leading engineering teams, preferably in a SaaS or startup environment.

• Experience in strategic planning, goal-setting and performance management. 

• A passion for mentoring and developing team members, promoting a culture of respect, inclusion, and continuous learning.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a focus on empathy and transparency.

• A data-driven approach to decision making, with proficiency in analysing and interpreting relevant metrics to drive the engineering strategy. 

• Knowledge of and experience with PHP, Laravel, PhpUnit/Pest, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), JavaScript and Vue.js.

• Knowledge of (Google) Cloud Services and CI/CD (GitHub Actions) would be a plus.

• Experience with Scrum and project management tools.
  

What we offer along with your compensation package

• Base salary of €6,500 - €7,500 💶

• Attractive pension plan 💰

• 8% holiday allowance paid out every May

• 25 vacation days per year 🌴

• Possibility to work from home 2 times per week

• Possibility to work from abroad 2 weeks per year

• A generous learning & development budget of €1500 per year 🤓

• Staying strong and healthy with a €20 discount on your Onefit subscription 🏋️

• Healthy lunch at the office 🥙 (or occasionally less healthy 🍔)

• Wellbeing support through personal coaching 🌱

• Travel allowance for your commute 🚎

• Unique work location in a monumental chapel in De Pijp ❌❌❌

• Team trips, activities, and Friday borrels 🧃🍻🥂

• The best part - working with the best team!

We value flexibility, finding joy in our work, and having a good time together. We believe in being Innovative, Inspiring, Scalable, Transparent, and Empathetic at the core of our values. If you can relate, go ahead and apply!