Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Salary: €90K–€105K annual base salary, including 8% holiday allowance; offer depends on experience and interview performance.

Company

hirify.global builds learning tools used by teachers and students worldwide.

What you will do

• Co-own the backlog and roadmap with the Product Manager, challenge scope based on user value, and turn product goals into technical plans.
• Lead the System Squad’s delivery through planning, unblocking, and day-to-day coordination.
• Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, direct feedback, annual development plans, and the Career Progression Framework.
• Set technical direction and quality standards, and review code and architecture in depth.
• Lead responsible AI adoption within the squad while maintaining quality and security.
• Review DORA metrics, PR cycle time, uptime, incidents, and technical debt; participate in the on-call rotation, hiring, and wider engineering initiatives.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years managing engineers with direct reports.
• Senior-level engineering expertise in a web stack, with the ability to contribute meaningfully to code and architecture discussions.
• Experience shaping a roadmap with a Product Manager and changing product direction based on user or data insights.
• Experience growing engineers through direct feedback and difficult development conversations.
• Ability to balance empathy with directness, communicate technical trade-offs, remain steady under pressure, and hold an unpopular position when needed.
• AI is already part of your working practice, and you have a clear view of how to introduce it to a team.
• Comfort with skill gaps, continuous feedback, uncertainty, and change in a scale-up environment.
• Excellent written and spoken English; available full-time.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby on Rails or Ember.js.
• Experience in EdTech or B2B SaaS used at scale.
• Background as a tech lead or product engineer.
• Experience establishing DORA or DX metrics and CI/CD.
• Affinity with education.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 paid holidays per year plus a day off for your birthday.
• Advantageous pension scheme and 3 days of volunteering leave per year.
• €550 annual Learning & Development budget plus 3 paid learning days.
• Travel allowance and Swapfiets subscription.
• Free access to the office gym.
• Unlimited mental health support through OpenUp in the EU, US, and Australia.