Backend Engineering Manager: Lead & Scale High-Impact Teams

Allianz Partners; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allianz Partners is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager (Backend) to lead backend engineering teams within the Advanced Analytics function. You will oversee Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI ecosystems, focusing on people leadership, hiring, and delivering high-quality, scalable services.

You will drive workforce planning, cross-functional delivery, and engineering standards across multiple teams, partnering with senior leaders to align skills with business priorities and platform

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership or people management role.
• Proven experience leading backend or full-stack engineering teams in modern software delivery environments.
• Track record managing multiple teams and supporting engineers at different career stages.
• Experience with performance management, career frameworks, talent development, and organisational planning.
• Strong background in hiring, interviewing, and scaling engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Grow High-Performing Engineering Teams.
• Build Organisational Capacity.
• Enable Engineering Excellence.
• Drive Delivery and Cross-Functional Collaboration.
• Talent Acquisition and Team Development.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Hiring

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Tools

Java/Spring Boot

Python/FastAPI

Microservice architectures

API design

Kafka

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitOps

ArgoCD

Job description

Allianz Partners is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager (Backend) to lead backend engineering teams within the Advanced Analytics function. You will oversee Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI ecosystems, focusing on people leadership, hiring, and delivering high-quality, scalable services.

You will drive workforce planning, cross-functional delivery, and engineering standards across multiple teams, partnering with senior leaders to align skills with business priorities and platform