Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

About the role

<p class="p1"><strong>A career driven by you</strong>. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We're not just leading the market;&nbsp;we're creating it. We're constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers. We're driven,&nbsp;ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn't stand still, where you can put your&nbsp;ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.</p> <p class="p1">As an <strong>Engineering Manager</strong>, you will lead an engineering team responsible for the backend&nbsp;platform powering one of the Netherlands' largest automotive marketplaces.&nbsp;</p> <p class="p1">You'll lead a team of approximately 5-6 engineers (currently supported by external engineers during an ongoing&nbsp;platform modernization). The team owns the core backend services that power the entire platform, including:</p> <ul> <li class="p1">Vehicle data ingestion from hundreds of external providers</li> <li class="p1">Backend services and business logic powering the platform</li> <li class="p1">Data matching, validation, enrichment and quality</li> <li class="p1">Search ranking and listing lifecycle management</li> <li class="p1">Click tracking, billing logic and fraud/bot protection</li> <li class="p1">Platform reliability, operational excellence and incident management</li> </ul> <p class="p1">The team is currently modernizing its backend platform, migrating from a legacy PHP/Scala stack to Java on AWS.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team</li> <li class="p2">Partner closely with Product to define priorities and successfully deliver the roadmap</li> <li class="p2">Drive technical excellence, engineering quality and operational maturity</li> <li class="p2">Lead architecture and technical discussions across multiple teams</li> <li class="p2">Establish strong operational practices, including on-call processes, incident management and post-incident reviews</li> <li class="p2">Improve system reliability, scalability and performance for a business-critical platform</li> <li class="p2">Coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and external dependencies</li> <li class="p2">Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement</li> <li class="p2">Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives across AutoScout24 Group</li> </ul> <p><strong>AI &amp; Engineering Productivity</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">Operate at a high level of efficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools</li> <li class="p2">Coach engineers on adopting AI to improve software quality and delivery speed</li> <li class="p2">Act as a role model for effective AI usage across engineering and leadership activities</li> <li class="p2">Identify opportunities to integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle</li> <li class="p2">Support the team's AI maturity and adoption as part of its ongoing transformation</li> </ul> <p class="p1"><strong>Technical environment</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">Java (primary language)</li> <li class="p2">Scala (legacy services)</li> <li class="p2">PHP (being phased out)</li> <li class="p2">AWS</li> <li class="p2">Kafka</li> <li class="p2">PostgreSQL</li> <li class="p2">Event-driven architecture</li> <li class="p2">Distributed backend systems</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll bring</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p1">3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams</li> <li class="p2">Strong prior experience as a hands-on software engineer</li> <li class="p2">Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems</li> <li class="p2">Strong background in object-oriented programming (preferably Java)</li> <li class="p2">Experience leading architecture and technical decision-making</li> <li class="p2">Experience introduci

Skills