Engineering Manager (Team Lead) - Back Office & Integrations | Relocation Offered

C Teleport; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work from Rotterdam

Ownership & growth

Cross‑functional collaboration

Job summary

C Teleport is seeking a hands‑on Engineering Manager to lead the Back Office & Integrations squad in Rotterdam. You will set technical direction, contribute production code, and grow the team while coordinating with Product Owner on roadmap and incremental MVPs.

You will balance people management with delivery, ensuring integration work across Planning, HR, Finance, and AI agents lands reliably. This role requires deep .NET/C#, microservices, and modern architectural thinking.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with deep, current .NET / C# expertise.
• 2+ years of current, full‑scope people management as an Engineering Manager.
• Strong hands‑on coding background; prefer coding over management detachment.
• Experience with AI coding agents as a daily driver.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns: SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing and CQRS; PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ; microservices and Docker.
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work from Rotterdam office 3 days per week; sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership: define the squad's direction and deliverables, ensure production-ready outcomes.
• Hands‑on coding, lead reviews, and understand the system deeply.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to shape the roadmap and break work into MVPs.
• Challenge estimates, manage risks, and maintain production stability within SLA.
• Enforce standards and evaluate new tech with Architects Group.
• Line‑manage engineers: regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth paths.
• Handle hiring decisions and performance management.

Skills

C# / .NET

People management

Software engineering

AI coding agents

Microservices

Docker

PostgreSQL

CQRS / Event Sourcing

RabbitMQ

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

About C Teleport

C Teleport is designed for teams in fast-moving industries such as aviation, energy, and maritime. Aimed at making crew and staff movement simple and flexible, we enable teams to book, manage, and adapt flight and hotel bookings through a single, purpose-built platform. Our mission is to revolutionise the business landscape and enable 1 billion users to plan and re-plan their trips by automating travel management for their companies.

Diversity

With two offices in the Netherlands and Latvia, plus team members based around the world, C Teleport brings together people from over 30 nationalities, proudly creating a diverse mix of languages, cultures and perspectives.

Remote roles available

30+ nationalities and counting

Relocation opportunities

Good to know We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about what they do and want to help change the crew travel industry for good.

Here's what makes C Teleport a great place to work:

We grow – you grow

Growing at a rate of 30% yearly, we’re continuously increasing both the number of employees and the scope of their roles. As we enter new markets and grow our user base, employees have great opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment.

Unique product

We are proud to say that our product revolutionises the market, automating crew travel management and helping customers find flights that they can change and cancel. This provides great value to many businesses that have uncertain travel plans.

International experience

Though our biggest customer base is in Europe, we serve customers on every continent, from the Philippines and Turkey to the U.S. and beyond. It is a great place if you’re looking to work with an international crowd.

Ready to make an impact?

If you’re looking for meaningful challenges, opportunities to grow, and the chance to work with talented people from around the world, we’d love to hear from you.

Explore our open roles and join us in shaping the future of crew travel!

Position

You will lead the Back Office & Integrations squad: the team that connects C Teleport to the systems our customers already run, from Planning, HR and Finance platforms to the AI agents that increasingly act on their behalf. The squad’s mission is simple to state and hard to deliver: data moves between systems on its own, and nobody re-keys anything by hand. This is a hands‑on leadership role. You set the squad's technical direction and write production code alongside your engineers. You also build the team, grow each person in it, and answer for how they perform.

C Teleport automates corporate travel for companies whose people are always on the move, with pragmatic engineering and machine learning doing the work that used to take a travel desk. Your squad is where that automation meets our customers’ own systems. As Squad Lead you are the squad's face to the rest of the company. You work day to day with your Product Owner, who sits with you in Rotterdam, on what to build and how to ship it in increments. And you are the person other teams come to when their work depends on the integration layer, so they can trust that what you promise will land.

What you'll own

Technical leadership

• Own the squad's technical direction, from design decisions through to the implementation itself.
• Own the squad's delivery outcomes to ensure the team ships reliable, complete solutions and follows through to production.
• 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, shaping solutions, not accepting requirements blindly.
• 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 the Architects Group.

People leadership

• Line‑manage the engineers in the squad: this is real, all‑round people management, not a title.
• Own hiring for the squad: define the need, interview, and make the call.
• Run regular 1:1s, give direct feedback, and build each engineer's growth path.
• Own performance end‑to‑end: recognise and stretch strong performers, and address underperformance directly, including the difficult conversations and, where it comes to it, managing someone out.
• Set and hold the bar for how the squad works together, and promote a culture of "agree or disagree, but commit."

This is not...

• Not a hands‑off management role. You will still design, review, and write production code every week.
• Not a pure IC or architect role. You are accountable for people and for delivery, not only for the code. If you are looking to step back from management, or to step back from coding, this is not the role.
• Not a role where "leading engineers" was a title without the substance. If your team‑lead experience didn't include running your own 1:1s, hiring, and personally handling underperformance, this role will feel like a bigger jump than it looks on paper.

Contract type

This role starts as afixed‑term contract, and permanent contract will be offered once the confidence of long‑term collaboration is well established. If you need a permanent contract from day one, this isn't the right fit for you right now - for everyone else, it's the standard structure we use to make sure it's a genuine two‑way fit before we commit long‑term.

Your qualification

• 7+ of your most recent years in 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 ofcurrent, 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.)

Will be a plus

• Building and owning APIs, webhooks, or platform/integration products; connecting to enterprise finance/HR/scheduling systems; driving external partner/supplier integrations to live deployment.
• Experience with AWS or Kubernetes

What we offer

• A hands‑on technical leadership role with significant ownership of a business‑critical domain.
• Hybrid working from our Rotterdam office, three days a week; close to your Product Owner and the cross‑department stakeholders whose work depends on the squad, so the tightest collaboration happens in person.
• Professional growth in a fast‑moving company at the intersection of travel and engineering.