Description
A career driven by you. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We're not just leading the market; we're creating it. We're constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers. We're driven, ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn't stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team responsible for the backend platform powering one of the Netherlands' largest automotive marketplaces.
You'll lead a team of approximately 5-6 engineers (currently supported by external engineers during an ongoing platform modernization). The team owns the core backend services that power the entire platform, including:
- Vehicle data ingestion from hundreds of external providers
- Backend services and business logic powering the platform
- Data matching, validation, enrichment and quality
- Search ranking and listing lifecycle management
- Click tracking, billing logic and fraud/bot protection
- Platform reliability, operational excellence and incident management
The team is currently modernizing its backend platform, migrating from a legacy PHP/Scala stack to Java on AWS.
What you'll do
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Partner closely with Product to define priorities and successfully deliver the roadmap
- Drive technical excellence, engineering quality and operational maturity
- Lead architecture and technical discussions across multiple teams
- Establish strong operational practices, including on-call processes, incident management and post-incident reviews
- Improve system reliability, scalability and performance for a business-critical platform
- Coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and external dependencies
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives across AutoScout24 Group
AI & Engineering Productivity
- Operate at a high level of efficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools
- Coach engineers on adopting AI to improve software quality and delivery speed
- Act as a role model for effective AI usage across engineering and leadership activities
- Identify opportunities to integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle
- Support the team's AI maturity and adoption as part of its ongoing transformation
Technical environment
- Java (primary language)
- Scala (legacy services)
- PHP (being phased out)
- AWS
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Event-driven architecture
- Distributed backend systems
What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
- Strong prior experience as a hands-on software engineer
- Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
- Strong background in object-oriented programming (preferably Java)
- Experience leading architecture and technical decision-making
- Experience introducing and running operational excellence practices, including on-call rotations, incident response and postmortems
- Proven ability to deliver complex cross-team initiatives with multiple stakeholders
- Passion for coaching engineers and building high-performing teams
- Experience driving adoption of modern AI development practices within engineering teams is highly desirable
A culture of growth
With over 50 nationalities represented, we’re proud to welcome people of all backgrounds to our growing community. Here, you’ll have the tools, training and support you need to work in a way that suits you, learn new skills and reach your potential.
For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.
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