Engineering Manager (Kafka)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; hybrid work with 2 recommended office days per week.

Salary: €100,300–€121,400 gross annually, excluding 8% holiday pay.

Company

hirify.global operates a second-hand marketplace, shipping services, and payment products across Europe.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of 5+ infrastructure engineers through goal setting, feedback, performance reviews, mentoring, and career development planning.
• Own team health, delivery velocity, operational workload, sustainable pace, and hiring as the team expands.
• Create and improve operational procedures, agile workflows, incident response routines, and on-call practices.
• Unblock engineers, resolve cross-team dependencies, and coordinate with peer platform teams and internal stakeholders.
• Partner with the Staff Engineer and TPM to translate technical strategy into roadmaps, priorities, and predictable delivery.
• Ensure reliable services, clear SLAs, roadmap visibility, and eventually consistent systems that synchronize data across cross-Atlantic markets.

Requirements

• Experience managing, coaching, and developing software and/or infrastructure engineering teams with a track record of delivering results.
• Strong understanding of goal-setting frameworks, performance review cycles, continuous feedback, and engineering career growth pathways.
• Ability to collaborate in a leadership triad with a Staff Engineer on technical decisions and a TPM on program execution.
• Skill in creating structured workflows, clarifying ownership, facilitating constructive discussions, and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Strong commitment to people development, psychological safety, healthy on-call culture, and team satisfaction.
• High-level understanding of software engineering and platform concepts, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical specialists without being hands-on.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience in platform, infrastructure, SRE, or cloud organizations.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar platforms.
• Experience establishing or improving on-call rotations, incident post-mortem processes, or service-level management.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with home office support, work-from-home allowance, and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
• Up to 90 remote workdays per year in the EU, including 21 days globally; non-EU citizens can work worldwide for 21 days.
• 25 days of paid annual leave, pension plan, lunch benefit, commute support, and flexible benefits budget.
• Share options, monthly hirify.global shopping budget, company bike leasing, and a dog-friendly office.
• Learning budget starting at €3,000 annually and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
• Employee Assistance Program for employees and families, plus team-building events.