Job Title: Head of Engineering
Location: Netherlands
My client are looking for a head of engineering to help shape the future of their growing tech organisation in the Netherlands. This is a key leadership role where you’ll be driving team growth, scaling engineering practices, and leading our backend teams to new levels of performance and quality.
Experience expectations:
- Lead, support, and grow a team of backend engineers (they currently have a engineering team of 35+ developers)
- Partner with Product and Design to deliver impactful features that support our long-term vision.
- Introduce and refine engineering processes that enable autonomy, accountability, and speed at scale.
- Act as a mentor and coach to team leads and senior engineers, helping them grow in both people and technical leadership.
- Ensure high standards of software quality, availability, and performance across our backend systems.
Requirement:
- Proven experience managing backend engineering teams in high growth environments.
- A strong track record of scaling teams and building healthy engineering cultures.
- Hands-on experience with modern backend architectures and cloud infrastructure (Experience with Java, Scala, Kotlin or Python is a plus)
- A pragmatic approach to software development balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with other leaders.