Engineering Lead (Finance & Internal Tools)

Workwize; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Top tools and equipment

Entrepreneurial culture with room to成长

Off-sites and team events

Team lunches and surprise events

ClassPass corporate membership

Job summary

Workwize seeks an Engineering Lead for Finance & Internal Tools to own the delivery of billing, invoicing and internal platforms. You will lead a small, high-impact team, balance hands-on coding with mentoring, and work closely with Product, Operations and Finance.

You will report to the Engineering Manager, scale the team, drive roadmap execution, enforce quality through code reviews and testing, and collaborate with senior leadership across the business.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer, including 1–2 years managing engineers with direct reports.
• Experience handling performance issues: setting expectations, giving hard feedback and supporting someone who is struggling.
• Leadership style that can switch between directing and coaching, depending on the situation.
• Confidence to explain and defend your point of view to senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with a modern web stack. We use Laravel (PHP), Node.js, React, Filament and MySQL.
• A track record of delivering B2B web products end to end, working with non-technical colleagues.
• Daily use of AI tools in your development work.
• Clear written and spoken English (Dutch is not needed).

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow your engineers through 1:1s, clear feedback and growth plans.
• Set a clear bar for performance, and act early when someone is not meeting it.
• Own delivery of the team's roadmap and keep progress, risks and blockers visible.
• Plan the roadmap and quarterly goals with Product, Operations and Finance, including what we say no to.
• Run planning, refinement and retros, and represent the team in talks with other teams.
• Keep standards high on code review, testing, monitoring, security and incident follow-up.
• Hire new engineers for your team.

Skills

Team leadership

Performance management

Stakeholder communication

Hands-on coding

AI tools in development

English communication

Tools

Laravel

Node.js

React

Filament

MySQL

Job description

Engineering Lead (Finance & Internal Tools)

Amsterdam, Netherlands (Hybrid) or Remote in EMEA

About Workwize

Workwize helps companies equip their remote and global teams with IT equipment. Our SaaS platform takes care of buying, delivering, managing and returning laptops and other devices in more than 100 countries. Today more than 50,000 users and 120,000 devices are managed through Workwize.

About the role

You will lead the team that builds the systems behind our finance and internal operations. That means billing, invoicing and the internal tools our Operations and Finance teams use every day. The team is small but has a big impact. Mistakes here are expensive, so quality and good judgement matter.

You lead the engineers, work closely with the team's Product Manager and report to the Engineering Manager. You also work directly with senior leadership. You own the people, the way the team works and the delivery of the roadmap. You stay close to the code: about 30 to 40% of your time goes to code reviews, technical design and some hands-on work.

What you will do

• Lead and grow your engineers through 1:1s, clear feedback and growth plans
• Set a clear bar for performance, and act early when someone is not meeting it
• Own delivery of the team's roadmap and keep progress, risks and blockers visible
• Plan the roadmap and quarterly goals with Product, Operations and Finance, including what we say no to
• Run planning, refinement and retros, and represent the team in talks with other teams
• Keep standards high on code review, testing, monitoring, security and incident follow-up
• Hire new engineers for your team

What you bring

• 5+ years as a software engineer, including at least 1 to 2 years managing engineers with direct reports
• Experience handling performance issues: setting expectations, giving hard feedback and supporting someone who is struggling
• A leadership style that can switch between directing and coaching, depending on the situation
• Confidence to explain and defend your point of view to senior stakeholders
• Hands-on experience with a modern web stack. We use Laravel (PHP), Node.js, React, Filament and MySQL. You don't need to know all of them, because strong engineers learn them fast
• A track record of delivering B2B web products end to end, working with non-technical colleagues
• Daily use of AI tools in your development work
• Clear written and spoken English (Dutch is not needed)

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, or with finance and billing systems (invoicing, order-to-cash, tax, or accounting and ERP integrations like Exact or QuickBooks)
• Experience with Laravel Filament or other admin panel tools, or moving internal tools off low-code platforms like Retool
• Experience building LLM features or AI agents for internal operations
• Scale-up experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, logistics or operations

Where you will work

• In the Netherlands: hybrid, 2 to 3 days a week in our Amsterdam office
• Elsewhere in EMEA: remote, with working hours that overlap with CET and occasional visits to Amsterdam

Our hiring process

• Call with Talent Acquisition
• Team fit interview
• Technical interview
• Case study: two short role-play scenarios with the panel. You don't need to prepare.
• Culture interview

What we offer

• Flexible hybrid work
• Top tools and equipment
• An entrepreneurial culture with room to grow
• Off-sites and team events
• Team lunches and surprise events
• ClassPass corporate membership