Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead) - 2 squads | Relocation Offered

C Teleport; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

C Teleport in Rotterdam is hiring a Lead for one of two squads, owning both technical direction and people leadership. You’ll stay hands-on in code while growing the team and aligning with product goals to deliver reliable, scalable features.

We welcome engineers with 7+ years in .NET/C#, strong leadership experience, and a pragmatic mindset. Hybrid work three days a week in NL; AWS/Kubernetes and modern tooling a plus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with deep .NET / C# expertise.
• 2+ years leading engineers as Team Lead / EM, with people-management responsibilities.
• Hands-on coding background, contributing production code.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns (SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS) and databases/messaging.
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work from the Rotterdam office three days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own the squad's technical direction from design through to implementation.
• Own the squad's delivery outcomes ensuring reliable, production-grade solutions.
• Stay hands-on: contribute production code and lead reviews.
• Partner with the Product Owner to shape the roadmap and break work into MVPs.
• Line-manage engineers and run regular 1:1s, providing feedback and career growth paths.
• Set and uphold standards for teamwork and production stability.

Skills

C# expertise

.NET

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

AI-assisted tools

Architectural patterns (SOLID, DDD, CQ

PostgreSQL & RabbitMQ

AWS / Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

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?

Position

You will lead one of two squads that run C Teleport's most business-critical domains; and as we scale,we're hiring a Lead for each. This is a leadership role with two halves that come together in one person: you own the technical direction of your squad and stay hands-on in the code, and you ownthe people. You build the team, grow it, and are accountablefor how everyone in it performs.

At C Teleport we are transforming corporate travel by combining automation, machine learning and pragmatic engineering. As a squad Lead, you are your squad's connection to the wider company; the technicalcounterpart to your squad's Product Owner, who is also based in our Rotterdam office, and a trusted partner to the teams whosework depends on yours.

The two squads that you'll lead one

Billing Squad: invoicing, payments, reconciliation, VAT and revenue recognition across multiple jurisdictions. It sits at the intersection of travel, finance and engineering, and its workis felt directly on the company's revenue.

Back Office, Integration & Ecosystem Squad: the integration layer that connects C Teleport to the software our customers already run, plus the APIs and ecosystem surface through which outside systems,and increasingly AI tools, plug into the platform. The mission: make data flow automaticallyso manual re-keying disappears.

What you'll own (both squads) 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.

Your qualification

• 7+ years in software engineering with deep .NET / C# expertise.

• 2+ years leading engineers as a Team Lead / EM, with genuine appetite for the full people-management responsibilities above.

• Strong hands-on coding background, you'd rather write code than avoid it.

• Experienced with modern AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and able to use them effectively in day-to-day engineering and team management.

• 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

• For Billing:billing, invoicing, payments, ERP integration or other finance-related products; familiarity with VAT/GST, accounting principles or revenue recognition.

• For Back Office / Integration & Ecosystem: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 people 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, finance and engineering.