Engineering Manager (Team Lead) - Back Office & Integrations (.NET/C#)

Location: Must be based in the Netherlands and able to work from the Rotterdam office three days per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Hybrid working; candidates outside the Netherlands are not relocated.

Salary: €7,000–8,000 gross per month, plus 8% holiday allowance.

Company

hirify.global automates corporate travel through engineering and machine learning, connecting customer systems with travel workflows.

What you will do

• Lead the Back Office & Integrations squad and own its technical direction, architecture decisions, delivery outcomes, and production stability.
• Write and review production C# code weekly while maintaining coding standards, reducing technical debt, and evaluating technology with the Architects Group.
• Partner with the Product Owner in Rotterdam to shape the roadmap, challenge assumptions, and deliver incremental MVPs.
• Manage engineers through hiring, recurring 1:1s, feedback, growth planning, performance management, and underperformance resolution.
• Coordinate with other teams that depend on the integration layer and keep incidents and support tickets within SLA.

Requirements

• 7+ of the most recent years in software engineering with deep, current .NET/C# expertise as the active day-to-day stack.
• 2+ years of current, full-scope Engineering Manager people management, including recurring 1:1s, hiring, underperformance management through resolution, and exits where needed.
• Production C# code written and merged as part of the regular job within the last 6 months.
• Daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor agent mode, or similar, including directing agentic workflows.
• Solid practical knowledge of architectural patterns, SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL; message brokers such as RabbitMQ or similar; microservices; and Docker.
• Must be able to work from the Rotterdam office three days per week and already live in the Netherlands for highly skilled migrant sponsorship eligibility.
• A lead or architect title without full-scope people management experience is not sufficient.

Nice to have

• Experience building and owning APIs, webhooks, or platform and integration products.
• Experience connecting enterprise finance, HR, or scheduling systems and delivering external partner or supplier integrations to production.
• Experience with AWS or Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Initial 12-month fixed-term contract, with a permanent contract offered after confidence in long-term collaboration is established.
• Hybrid work from the Rotterdam office three days per week, with close collaboration with the Product Owner and cross-department stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical leadership with significant ownership of a business-critical domain.
• Professional growth in a fast-moving travel engineering company.
• Small, focused squad working remotely across European time zones; reporting directly to the CTO.

Hiring process

• Recruiter or HR call covering the role, motivation, and logistics, plus an interactive technical assignment.
• Technical challenge or interview, followed by a meeting with the CTO.
• Expected end-to-end process: approximately 2–3 weeks. Successful applicants may undergo legally compliant pre-employment screening covering employment history, education, and relevant public information.