Team Lead (Haskell)

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands; hybrid work with at least two days per week in the Utrecht office. Candidates must have EU citizenship or a valid work permit for the Netherlands and preferably already live in the Netherlands.

Salary: €77,000–€103,000 gross annual salary, including 8% holiday allowance, based on a 40-hour work week.

Company

hirify.global is a B2B SaaS platform that helps marketers and online businesses manage, scale, and optimize product marketing across e-commerce channels.

What you will do

• Lead a team of four experienced Haskell and Rust engineers, organizing work, setting priorities, and supporting team growth.
• Architect, develop, test, and maintain foundational platform services for product engineering teams.
• Improve service reliability, robustness, scalability, performance, and developer experience through Python tooling.
• Collaborate with team leads, the Infra Platform engineering manager, product engineering teams, and DevOps on roadmaps, requirements, and technical issues.
• Review code, break down complex projects, write actionable issues, debug problems, and help engineers resolve roadblocks.
• Hire team members, establish team culture, improve processes, and conduct performance reviews.

Requirements

• Previous engineering team leadership experience or substantial engineering experience with motivation to begin a leadership career.
• Strong backend development experience, functional programming knowledge, and professional experience with Haskell, Scala, or Rust.
• Ability to provide detailed high-level and low-level code reviews and mentor engineers technically.
• Familiarity with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, as well as Linux, Git, web technologies, and APIs.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, pragmatic prioritization, and people-oriented collaboration skills.
• Availability for at least 32 hours per week and ability to work from the Utrecht office two days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python.
• Direct Haskell experience; strong Rust or Scala experience with willingness to learn Haskell is also considered.
• Current residence in the Netherlands.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, collaborative culture focused on craftsmanship, autonomy, growth, and ownership.
• Flexible hybrid schedule with a 8:00–10:00 AM morning start window, home-working equipment, and an additional supplies budget.
• €1,000 annual learning and development budget, stock appreciation rights, and a company performance bonus of up to 10% of annual salary.
• 26 vacation days plus two reload days, with the option to purchase up to five additional vacation days.
• Three-week workcation, with three additional weeks for expats living in the Netherlands.
• Pension savings scheme, paid partner leave, commuting support, wellness resources, office meals, and team gatherings.

Hiring process

• Submit an application in English.
• Complete an introductory call with the Tech Talent Acquisition Partner.
• Continue with interviews if the initial conversation is a match.