Engineering Manager

Ohpen; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (3 days)

Office Amsterdam (Rokin 111)

Competitive salary

AI-first culture

Job summary

Ohpen is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Amsterdam-based Savings & Investments engineering team. You will lead a group of senior engineers, own delivery, and shape the technical direction with the S&I Architect and product specialists.

You will foster a high-performing, collaborative culture focused on excellence and AI-enabled engineering. You’ll report to the S&I Engineering Director and partner with client-facing teams to translate business needs into executable plans, with a strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading teams of 6–12 senior engineers.
• Background in financial services, fintech, payments, insurtech, or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience delivering complex software in C#/.NET or a comparable strongly-typed stack.
• Track record of building delivery structure: OKRs, RAG reporting, sprint discipline, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers based primarily in Amsterdam, owning performance, growth and team health.
• Drive delivery of product and platform initiatives with clear scope, timelines and trade-offs, communicating with stakeholders.
• Build a culture of accountability and engineering excellence within the team.

Skills

Leadership of 6–12 engineers

Fintech background

C#/.NET or similar strongly-typed

OKRs & sprint discipline

Coaching engineers

AI tooling adoption

Direct and honest communication

Dutch language (a plus)

Job description

As Engineering Manager for our Amsterdam-based Savings & Investments engineering team, you will own the day-to-day leadership, delivery, and development of a team of senior engineers working on the core of our platform. You will report directly to the S&I Engineering Director and work closely with our S&I Architect, product specialists, and client-facing teams.

This is a people-first leadership role. You will be expected to build a high-performing, motivated team, drive delivery with clarity and accountability, and create the conditions for your engineers to do their best work. You are not expected to be the best coder in the room - you are expected to make the room better.

Briefing

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers based primarily in Amsterdam, with full ownership of performance, growth, and team health
• Drive delivery of product and platform initiatives with clarity on scope, timelines, and trade-offs - and communicate these proactively to stakeholders
• Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence within your team
• Partner with the S&I Architect to ensure technical decisions align with the platform strategy and long-term vision
• Collaborate with product specialists and client success teams to translate business requirements into executable engineering plans
• Establish and maintain clear metrics for team performance, delivery quality, and operational health - and act on them
• Actively embed AI tooling and an AI-first mindset into how your team designs, builds, and ships software
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and retaining top engineering talent
• Identify and address risks early - whether technical, delivery-related, or people-related

About You

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Experience & background

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading teams of 6–12 senior engineers
• Background in financial services, fintech, payments, insurtech, or enterprise SaaS - you understand regulated, production-critical environments
• Experience delivering complex software in C#/.NET or a comparable strongly-typed stack; you can have an informed technical conversation without being in the weeds
• Track record of building delivery structure: OKRs, RAG reporting, sprint discipline, and metrics that actually drive decisions
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineers - not just manage them

Mindset & approach

• Results-oriented: you set clear goals, hold yourself and your team accountable, and don't mistake activity for progress
• AI-native: you actively explore how AI tooling can accelerate your team's output, improve quality, and reduce toil - and you bring your team along on that journey
• Direct and honest communicator - you surface problems early, propose solutions, and don't wait for someone else to call it
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you can operate in a scaling organisation where not everything is defined yet
• Dutch language skills are a plus, though not required - we work in English

Why us?

WHAT WE OFFER

• A leadership role with real ownership at a company that is scaling into Tier 1 financial institutions
• A collaborative, international engineering culture across Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Bratislava
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working (3 days per week) from our Amsterdam office (Rokin 111)
• The opportunity to shape how AI changes the way a fintech engineering team works - not as a buzzword, but as a practical daily reality