Engineering Manager

About the Position

Engineering Manager

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. We serve more than 250,000 businesses across Europe with an all-in-one solution that simplifies payments and money management. We’re an 850-strong team of product, finance, support, commerce, and engineering specialists working across Europe – from Lisbon to London.

As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of skilled engineers in defining and delivering the technical roadmap for our products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll help shape product strategy and direction, while representing engineering in key technical discussions. Your work will directly influence product quality, scalability, and innovation, playing a critical role in our overall success.

Responsibilities

• Lead a growing team of application engineers, with a hands-on leadership approach expected from all engineering managers
• Bring strong technical expertise and a proven track record in large-scale distributed systems and/or guiding teams through complex technical transitions
• Drive strategic technical decisions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, and lead cross-domain technical initiatives that align with overall business and product goals
• Identify improvements within the team, propose actionable solutions, and coordinate efforts to improve team velocity and effectiveness
• Help shape the broader domain vision, influence strategic direction, and set goals for ongoing product improvement
• Balance hands-on engineering with big picture thinking, taking pride in mentoring and developing high performing teams
• Maintain a results driven mindset focused on delivering impact at scale and speed

Requirements

• Management Experience: Preferably 2+ years of managing multidisciplinary teams, with a proven ability to recruit, retain, and grow top engineering talent.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and mentor engineering teams. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills. You are a great active listener.
• Engineering Excellence: Significant hands-on experience in various contexts, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full-stack products, preferably on the JVM or PHP stacks.
• Product Sense: A strong understanding of product development principles and a customer-centric approach.
• Bias Towards Action: Balance speed and quality, make quick decisions, and learn from mistakes.
• Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for finding creative solutions to complex challenges.
• Passion and Energy: Demonstrate ownership and enthusiasm, seeing new tasks as opportunities to contribute and grow.
• Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.

We Offer

• 20 days working from abroad: Enjoy the flexibility to work from abroad for 20 days a year (excl high risk countries)
• Wellbeing Budget: Enjoy €60 per month net towards taking care of yourself.
• Lifestyle and Health Support: Reach out for coaching and support whenever you need it via OpenUp.
• 26 holiday days: Time to relax. Plus an extra 2 days off in between 27 and 31 December!
• Commute options: Receive an NS Business Card and participate in our bike lease plan
• Birthday off: It’s your special day! Why spend it at the office?
• WFH Equipment Budget: One off budget of €400 for our new hires.
• Hybrid working: With WFH & Internet allowance at €60 a month.
• Discounted Lunch: Hot and cold meals plus snacks available each day for less than €4 and only pay when you use the service!
• Health Insurance: Insure with ONVZ or receive €125 net towards your own insurance.
• Annual Mollieverse event: All Mollies get together, connect and have fun.

How we hire

Step 1: Apply

Our Talent Acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application, and respond within 2 weeks.

Step 2: Screening call

If you seem like a Mollie-in-the-making, we’ll invite you to a screening call so we can learn more about each other.

Step 3: Are you the one?

You'll have two or more interviews. And if it's a highly technical role, we'll also assess the specific skills you'll need.