Senior Engineering Manager- Release & Developer Productivity

super; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical / Health Insurance

Open Annual Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Training & Learning Development

Job summary

Super in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Platform organisation, focusing on release enablement, engineering quality, and developer productivity.

You will lead cross‑functional squads, own CI/CD and release automation, strengthen quality gates, improve build times, and shape scalable, reliable delivery across the business.

Collaborate with product engineering, QA, SRE, and leadership to drive measurable impact on deployment speed and platform health.

Qualifications

• Engineering management experience leading platform or release engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing engineering team, managing performance and setting clear expectations.
• Drive improvements in release engineering and software delivery for frequent, safe releases.
• Improve engineering quality at scale with stronger gates, testing, and readiness.
• Increase developer productivity by reducing build times, CI issues, and tooling friction.
• Lead technical and architectural decision-making for CI/CD, automation, and tooling.
• Collaborate across squads and platform teams to deliver broad impact.
• Foster operational excellence with ownership, reliability, and incident response.
• Translate engineering improvements into measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Engineering management

Platform engineering

CI/CD practices

Release automation

QA collaboration

Developer productivity

Architectural decisions

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Job description

We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day.

We're looking for an Senior Engineering Manager to join our Platform organisation, leading a team focused on release enablement, engineering quality, and developer productivity. You'll lead a team responsible for critical developer-facing systems and practices, including CI/CD, release automation, quality guardrails, test infrastructure, local development workflows, and productivity tooling. Working closely with product engineering, platform teams, QA, SRE, and engineering leadership, you'll help make shipping software across Super faster, safer, and more predictable.

What the role involves

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, supporting engineers' growth, managing performance, setting clear expectations, and creating an environment where people can do impactful work.
• Drive improvements in release engineering and software delivery, owning and evolving the systems, workflows, and practices that enable teams to release safely, frequently, and with confidence.
• Improve engineering quality at scale, partnering with QA, product engineering, and platform teams to strengthen quality gates, testing strategies, release readiness, and production confidence.
• Increase developer productivity by identifying and reducing friction in the engineering workflow, including build times, CI reliability, local development environments, test feedback loops, deployment flows, and operational handoffs.
• Lead technical and architectural decision-making, guiding the team in designing scalable, maintainable solutions for CI/CD, automation, developer tooling, test infrastructure, and platform integrations.
• Collaborate across engineering, working with multiple squads, tribes, and platform teams to understand pain points, align priorities, and deliver solutions with broad organisational impact.
• Foster operational excellence, establishing strong ownership practices for the systems your team runs, including reliability, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Translate engineering problems into business impact, connecting improvements in release quality, delivery speed, and developer experience to measurable outcomes for the wider organisation.

What we are looking for

• Engineering management experience, ideally leading platform, release engineering, QA engineering, developer productivity, infrastructure, or tooling teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, release automation, deployment pipelines, testing strategies, and quality gates.
• Experience improving developer workflows at scale, such as build systems, local development environments, test infrastructure, monorepos, CI reliability, or internal developer platforms.
• Technical depth in platform engineering, with the ability to guide architectural decisions and challenge technical trade-offs.
• A quality-focused mindset, with experience partnering across engineering to improve release confidence, production readiness, and defect prevention.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, expectation setting, career development, performance management, and creating clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, especially when working with engineering teams that depend on shared platforms or centralised tooling.
• Strategic thinking, with the ability to balance immediate delivery needs against long-term platform health, engineering efficiency, and organisational scale.
• A pragmatic approach to platform work, focused on solving real engineering problems, measuring impact, and avoiding tooling for tooling's sake.

What we offer

• Medical / Health Insurance
• Open Annual Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Training & Learning Development

Additional benefits vary by country and will be shared during the hiring process

About Super

We are a global technology group, dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences. With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Greece and Serbia, and a network of offices across Spain, Croatia, Malta, Gibraltar, the Netherlands and the UK, we are a truly international organization. Our purpose at Super has evolved from sports and betting into creating the platform that stretches into the wider world of technology-driven entertainment. With a growing and diverse team of more than 5,000 people, we create immersive, responsible, and personalised experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Shaping the Future of Play

Everything we do at Super is rooted in doing what is right: for customers, for each other, and for our long-term vision. Our Culture Manifesto is our North Star. It captures our purpose, mission, and the six core beliefs that shape how we think, make decisions, and act every day. Want to explore our culture in more detail? Visit our careers page: super.xyz/careers

Super is committed to the highest standards of compliance, safety, and responsibility. As such, we are active members of the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) and the European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA).

At Super, we operate as a high-performing team. We hire and grow talent based on ability and potential, regardless of background and identity because we know diverse perspectives, drive better performance.