Freelance: Engineering Manager

Huxley; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 129,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley seeks an experienced Freelance Engineering Manager to lead a high performing software engineering team within a large scale digital product organization. You will drive technical excellence, develop engineering talent, and improve delivery performance across products used by millions globally.

You will work with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business stakeholders to align technical initiatives with strategic goals and ensure scalable, reliable services and strong operational

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong people management and coaching skills.
• Experience with large-scale production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop software engineers through structured growth plans.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage team performance, KPIs, delivery health, and roadmap execution.
• Identify and remove delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Drive recruitment activities and workforce planning.
• Own services and applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Improve operational excellence through monitoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Champion engineering best practices, code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Guide technical and architectural decision making.
• Partner with stakeholders across Product and Engineering to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Establish and improve engineering processes, standards, and workflows.

Skills

Engineering management

People management

Software engineering

Stakeholder management

Incident management

Architectural direction

Delivery leadership

Continuous improvement

Communication

Problem solving

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Freelance Engineering Manager to lead a high performing software engineering team within a large scale digital product organization. You will play a key role in developing engineering talent, improving delivery performance, and driving technical excellence across products and services used by millions of customers globally.

The team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable software solutions while ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business stakeholders to align technical initiatives with strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop software engineers through structured growth plans.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage team performance, KPIs, delivery health, and roadmap execution.
• Identify and remove delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Drive recruitment activities and workforce planning.
• Own services and applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Improve operational excellence through monitoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Champion engineering best practices, code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Guide technical and architectural decision making.
• Partner with stakeholders across Product and Engineering to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Establish and improve engineering processes, standards, and workflows.

Required Skills

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading software engineering teams.
• Strong people management and coaching experience.
• Software engineering background with knowledge of modern development practices.
• Experience managing large scale production systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience with incident management and service ownership.
• Ability to influence architectural decisions and technical direction.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities.
• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Comfortable operating in complex, fast paced environments.