AI-Driven Senior Engineering Lead (Hybrid, Amsterdam)

Independent Recruiters; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Hybrid in-office (Amsterdam)

Scale-Up environment

Job summary

Independent Recruiters seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale its software team, currently 8 FTE, with plans to grow. You will drive architecture, code reviews, and critical technical decisions, while pioneering AI-assisted development practices to boost velocity and quality.

Reporting to the Director Digital, you’ll bridge product, UX and hardware with engineering, ensuring seamless cross-functional collaboration across iOS, Android and web platforms in Amsterdam.

Qualifications

• Experience leading mobile software teams in a fast-paced consumer product environment.
• Strong backend and cloud fluency (GCP, Firebase) to guide design decisions.
• Excellent communication between hardware, marketing and software teams to build alignment.
• Architectural and security-focused with scalable systems from day one.
• Startup agility with collaborative product, design and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership: manage and mentor a cross-functional team (iOS, Android, Web).
• Modernize practices: introduce AI-assisted development, modern tooling, and agile methods to optimize delivery.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, Hardware, Marketing.
• Hardware-Software integration: influence connectivity decisions with Hardware teams.
• Ecosystem & Infrastructure: collaborate with DTC, Marketing, IT/Data teams to build shared frameworks.
• Technical Governance: uphold data architecture, security, and testing standards.
• Talent Development: attract and retain top engineering talent.

Skills

Leadership

Mobile engineering

Cloud

Backend systems

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional comms

Tools

Firebase

GCP

Job description

Independent Recruiters seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale its software team, currently 8 FTE, with plans to grow. You will drive architecture, code reviews, and critical technical decisions, while pioneering AI-assisted development practices to boost velocity and quality.

Reporting to the Director Digital, you’ll bridge product, UX and hardware with engineering, ensuring seamless cross-functional collaboration across iOS, Android and web platforms in Amsterdam.