Engineering Manager & Squad Lead — Hands-On & People Growth

Rotterdam Innovation City; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Rotterdam office three days a week

Job summary

C Teleport is seeking a Lead to head two squads, owning both technical direction and people leadership while staying hands‑on in the code. You will connect with the Product Owner across the company and partner with stakeholders from our Rotterdam office.

This role blends leadership with coding, focusing on Billing and Back Office squads, roadmapping incremental MVPs, and ensuring production stability in a fast‑growing travel‑tech environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of active software engineering with deep, current .NET / C# expertise — this needs to be your active day‑to‑day stack now, not a language you used earlier in your career.
• 2+ years of current‑full‑scope people management as an Engineering Manager, meaning you've personally run recurring 1:1s, hired, and managed underperformance through to a resolution, including an exit where needed. A lead or architect title without this substance isn't enough.
• Strong hands‑on coding background, you'd rather write code than avoid it.
• You use AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor's agent mode, or similar) as a daily driver, not just autocomplete, instead being comfortable directing agentic workflows, and ready to bring that fluency to how your team works, not only how you personally code.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns, SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing and CQRS; practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and message brokers (RabbitMQ or similar); hands‑on with microservices and Docker.
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work from our Rotterdam office 3 days per week. (We can sponsor highly‑skilled‑migrant candidates already in, or relocating to, the NL; we do not relocate candidates currently based outside the country.)

Responsibilities

• Own the squad’s technical direction from design decisions through to implementation and delivery.
• Lead delivery outcomes to ensure reliable, complete solutions and production readiness.
• Stay hands‑on: contribute production code, lead reviews, and know the system deeply.
• Partner with the Product Owner to shape the roadmap and break work into incremental MVPs.
• Challenge estimates, surface risks early, safeguard production stability, and keep incidents and support tickets inside SLA.
• Enforce coding standards, reduce technical debt, and evaluate new technology with Architects Group.
• Line‑manage engineers: 1:1s, feedback, growth plans, and performance management.

Skills

7+ years in software engineering (C#,.

2+ years engineering manager

Hands-on coding

AI coding agents daily

Architectural patterns (SOLID, TDD, Dn

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Docker

Net/C# stacks

Net microservices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

C Teleport is seeking a Lead to head two squads, owning both technical direction and people leadership while staying hands‑on in the code. You will connect with the Product Owner across the company and partner with stakeholders from our Rotterdam office.

This role blends leadership with coding, focusing on Billing and Back Office squads, roadmapping incremental MVPs, and ensuring production stability in a fast‑growing travel‑tech environment.