Lead Software Engineer (Team Lead) - 2 squads

Lead a squad shaping C Teleport’s billing or integration platform. Stay hands-on with.NET, guide technical direction, and grow engineers while delivering business-critical solutions.

You will lead one of two squads that run C Teleport's most business-critical domains; and as we scale, we're hiring a Lead for each. This is a leadership role with two halves that come together in one person: you own the technical direction of your squad and stay hands-on in the code, and you own the people. You build the team, grow it, and are accountable for how everyone in it performs.

At C Teleport we are transforming corporate travel by combining automation, machine learning and pragmatic engineering. As a squad Lead, you are your squad's connection to the wider company; the technical counterpart to your squad's Product Owner, who is also based in our Rotterdam office, and a trusted partner to the teams whose work depends on yours.

The two squads that you'll lead one

Billing Squad: invoicing, payments, reconciliation, VAT and revenue recognition across multiple jurisdictions. It sits at the intersection of travel, finance and engineering, and its work is felt directly on the company's revenue.

Back Office, Integration & Ecosystem Squad: the integration layer that connects C Teleport to the software our customers already run, plus the APIs and ecosystem surface through which outside systems, and increasingly AI tools, plug into the platform. The mission: make data flow automatically so manual re-keying disappears.

What you'll own (both squads)

Technical leadership

• Own the squad's technical direction, from design decisions through to the implementation itself.
• Own the squad's delivery outcomes to ensure the team ships reliable, complete solutions and follows through to production.
• Stay hands-on: contribute production code, lead reviews, and know the system deeply.
• Partner with the Product Owner to shape the roadmap and break work into incremental MVPs, shaping solutions, not accepting requirements blindly.
• Challenge estimates, surface risks early, safeguard production stability, and keep incidents and support tickets inside SLA.
• Enforce coding standards, reduce technical debt, and evaluate new technology with the Architects Group.

People leadership

• Line-manage the engineers in the squad: this is real, all-round people management, not a title.
• Own hiring for the squad: define the need, interview, and make the call.
• Run regular 1:1s, give direct feedback, and build each engineer's growth path.
• Own performance end-to-end: recognise and stretch strong performers, and address underperformance directly, including the difficult conversations and, where it comes to it, managing someone out.
• Set and hold the bar for how the squad works together, and promote a culture of "agree or disagree, but commit."

Must-haves (these are gates)

• 7+ years in software engineering with deep.NET / C# expertise.
• 2+ years leading engineers as a Team Lead / EM, with genuine appetite for the full people-management responsibilities above.
• Strong hands-on coding background, you'd rather write code than avoid it.
• Experienced with modern AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and able to use them effectively in day-to-day engineering and team management.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns, SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing and CQRS; practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and message brokers (RabbitMQ or similar); hands-on with microservices and Docker.
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work from our Rotterdam office 3 days per week. (We can sponsor highly-skilled-migrant candidates already in, or relocating to, the NL; we do not relocate candidates currently based outside the country.)

Nice to have (bonus, genuinely not required)

• For Billing: billing, invoicing, payments, ERP integration or other finance-related products; familiarity with VAT/GST, accounting principles or revenue recognition.
• For Back Office / Integration & Ecosystem: building and owning APIs, webhooks, or platform/integration products; connecting to enterprise finance/HR/scheduling systems; driving external partner/supplier integrations to live deployment.
• Experience with AWS or Kubernetes.

Tech stack

C#,.NET, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, AWS; alongside Docker, Redis, Elasticsearch and other supporting services across the wider platform.

The squad

Each is a small, focused team working remotely across European time zones, with you connecting it to the wider company from our Rotterdam office. You report to the CTO and work alongside a Tech Lead.

What we offer

• A hands-on technical leadership role with significant ownership of a business-critical domain.
• Hybrid working from our Rotterdam office, three days a week; close to your Product Owner and the people whose work depends on the squad, so the tightest collaboration happens in person.
• Professional growth in a fast-moving company at the intersection of travel, finance and engineering.

Hiring process

1. Recruiter / HR call - role, motivation, logistics.
2. Short technical video call with our engineer.
3. Technical challenge / interview.
4. Meet the CTO.

Target: ~3–4 weeks end to end.

Pre-employment screening

If your application is successful, we may conduct a pre-employment screening through a trusted third party, in line with applicable laws - this may include employment history, education, and other relevant publicly available information to help us understand your suitability for the role.

C Teleport is an equal-opportunity employer. We assess every application on merit and handle your data in line with GDPR.

About C Teleport

C Teleport is designed for teams in fast-moving industries such as aviation, energy, and maritime. We make managing travel simple and flexible. Every trip modification or cancellation happens instantly and automatically - no waiting, no manual steps.

Founded in 2017, C Teleport has 100 co-workers.