Lead engineer

rb2; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 67,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Lunch provided

Bike plan

Laptop + phone allowance

Travel allowance

Team events

Job summary

rb2 is building an AI-first engineering practice with teams in Purmerend, Lisbon, and Xiamen. You will lead architecture, set direction, and stay close to code to shape delivery across time zones.

You will drive AI-assisted development, ship prototypes in short sprints, and grow engineers while maintaining a product mindset focused on user impact and business value. Hybrid work and deep tooling support are offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong cloud experience, including serverless platforms.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering.
• Product-minded with a data-driven approach.
• Familiar with AI-assisted development such as Copilot, Cursor, LLM integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small international engineering team across Purmerend, Lisbon, and Xiamen, setting direction and delivery.
• Stay close to the codebase to ground architectural decisions.
• Turn ambiguous business goals into technical plans with efficient alternatives.
• Ship validated prototypes in short innovation sprints and own long-term architecture.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development through tooling and standards.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Cloud

Serverless

Team leadership

Product mindset

AI-assisted development

English fluency

Tools

Copilot

Cursor

LLM integration

AWS

Job description

Build things that last. And things that ship in three weeks. At rb2, you'll lead the engineering behind two kinds of work: scalable commerce platforms that large B2B brands rely on for years, and fast innovation sprints where you validate a bold idea and get a working prototype in front of users. You'll own the architecture, set the technical direction, and stay close enough to the code to shape it yourself.

We're building an AI-first engineering practice. Our teams already run on approximately 75% AI-assisted development, and our management leads from the front. You'll help define how a modern engineering team designs, ships, and operates when AI is a core part of the workflow, not an afterthought.

What you'll do

• Lead a small international engineering team across Purmerend, Lisbon, and Xiamen, setting direction, growing people, and keeping delivery sharp across time zones
• Keep writing code and stay close to the codebase, so the architectural calls you make are grounded in the work
• Turn ambiguous business goals into technical plans and push back with lower-effort alternatives when they deliver similar impact
• Ship validated prototypes in short innovation sprints and own the long-term architecture of platforms brands depend on
• Drive our adoption of AI-assisted development through tooling, patterns, and team standards

What we're looking for

• Strong, hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Solid cloud experience, including serverless platforms
• Proven experience leading engineering teams: you have grown engineers and owned delivery, not just managed tickets
• A product mindset: you think in user impact and business value, validate with data, and care about the why, not only the how
• Comfort with, or genuine curiosity about, AI-assisted development such as Copilot, Cursor, LLM integration, and where the field is heading
• Fluent English; Dutch is a plus

Why rb2?

Here, you can combine both sides of senior engineering: building systems that last for years and validating ideas quickly enough to learn from them. We invest in your growth with training, strong tooling, and time to go deep on AI. You'll join an opinionated engineering culture where ownership, technical quality, and actually shipping belong together.

What we offer

• €6,000-€6,750 gross per month based on 40 hours, plus a bonus of up to two months' salary and a 5% additional contribution
• 24/26 vacation days and an extra day off for every six months without sick leave
• Hybrid working from the Purmerend area
• Training, tooling, and time to go deep on AI
• A laptop of your choice and phone allowance
• Daily fresh lunch, travel allowance, and a bike plan
• Team outings, drinks, boat trips, and ski trips

Your new colleagues

Ina Koning

Corporate Chef

Mark Roex

COO

Front-end Developer

Marketing Manager

Roelof Blom

CTO

GK Zhang

Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Office Manager

CEO

Digital Creative

Back-end Developer

Solution Architect

Merve Koc

Business Analyst

Gloria Cai

Front-end Developer

Technical Lead

Managing Partner

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