Engineering Manager

TL;DR

Engineering Manager: Lead and grow autonomous engineering teams, shaping how software is built and delivered at scale with an accent on people-first leadership, predictable delivery, and real fan impact. Focus on fostering psychological safety, strengthening feedback loops, and ensuring operational maturity while contributing to department-level improvements.

Location: Hybrid in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Candidates must be based in the Netherlands, have an EU passport, or hold a partner/highly skilled migrant visa for the Netherlands.

Company

hirify.global is a marketplace for safely buying and selling tickets, connecting fans to events across 42 countries.

What you will do

• Coach and support engineers in their professional growth through regular feedback, mentoring, and clear expectations.
• Help teams plan and execute work more predictably and sustainably, strengthening feedback loops and delivery flow.
• Partner with senior engineers to help set technical direction, surface trade-offs, and resolve blockers.
• Ensure teams operate with a high level of operational maturity, including on-call practices, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers to improve how the engineering department runs as a whole.
• Act as a connector between teams, helping reduce friction and improve collaboration across the organization.

Requirements

• Multiple years of experience managing engineering teams in a product-focused environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, balancing people, delivery, and technical concerns.
• Proven ability to improve ways of working across multiple teams as organizations grow and mature.
• Comfortable operating in environments where teams are successful but not identical, evolving shared practices without forcing uniformity.
• Belief that speed and quality are not opposites, caring deeply about delivering real value while building resilient systems.
• Must be based in the Netherlands, have an EU passport, or hold a partner/highly skilled migrant visa for the Netherlands.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture with strong, autonomous teams.
• Environment of psychological safety, accountability, and ownership.
• Support for professional growth through regular feedback and mentoring.
• Opportunities to contribute to evolving engineering culture, processes, and organizational structures.
• Hybrid work model.
• Impact on a global product connecting over 18 million fans across 42 countries.