Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

<p class=&quot;p1&quot;><strong>A career driven by you</strong>.

Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane.

We&#39;re not just leading the market;&nbsp;we&#39;re creating it.

We&#39;re constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers.

We&#39;re driven,&nbsp;ambitious and determined to do our best work, together.

For a career that doesn&#39;t stand still, where you can put your&nbsp;ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.</p> <p class=&quot;p1&quot;>As an <strong>Engineering Manager</strong>, you will lead an engineering team responsible for the backend&nbsp;platform powering one of the Netherlands&#39; largest automotive marketplaces.&nbsp;</p> <p class=&quot;p1&quot;>You&#39;ll lead a team of approximately 5-6 engineers (currently supported by external engineers during an ongoing&nbsp;platform modernization).

The team owns the core backend services that power the entire platform, including:</p> <ul> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Vehicle data ingestion from hundreds of external providers</li> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Backend services and business logic powering the platform</li> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Data matching, validation, enrichment and quality</li> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Search ranking and listing lifecycle management</li> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Click tracking, billing logic and fraud/bot protection</li> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>Platform reliability, operational excellence and incident management</li> </ul> <p class=&quot;p1&quot;>The team is currently modernizing its backend platform, migrating from a legacy PHP/Scala stack to Java on AWS.</p> <p class=&quot;p1&quot;><strong>What you&#39;ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Partner closely with Product to define priorities and successfully deliver the roadmap</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Drive technical excellence, engineering quality and operational maturity</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Lead architecture and technical discussions across multiple teams</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Establish strong operational practices, including on-call processes, incident management and post-incident reviews</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Improve system reliability, scalability and performance for a business-critical platform</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and external dependencies</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives across AutoScout24 Group</li> </ul> <p><strong>AI &amp; Engineering Productivity</strong></p> <ul> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Operate at a high level of efficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Coach engineers on adopting AI to improve software quality and delivery speed</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Act as a role model for effective AI usage across engineering and leadership activities</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Identify opportunities to integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Support the team&#39;s AI maturity and adoption as part of its ongoing transformation</li> </ul> <p class=&quot;p1&quot;><strong>Technical environment</strong></p> <ul> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Java (primary language)</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Scala (legacy services)</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>PHP (being phased out)</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>AWS</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Kafka</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>PostgreSQL</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Event-driven architecture</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Distributed backend systems</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you&#39;ll bring</strong></p> <ul> <li class=&quot;p1&quot;>3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Strong prior experience as a hands-on software engineer</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Strong background in object-oriented programming (preferably Java)</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Experience leading architecture and technical decision-making</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Experience introducing and running operational excellence practices, including on-call rotations, incident&nbsp;response and postmortems</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Proven ability to deliver complex cross-team initiatives with multiple stakeholders</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Passion for coaching engineers and building high-performing teams</li> <li class=&quot;p2&quot;>Experience driving adoption of modern AI development practices within engineering teams is highly desirable</li> </ul> <p><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;><strong>A culture of growth&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;>With over 50 nationalities represented, we’re proud to welcome people of all backgrounds to our growing community.

Here, you’ll have the tools, training and support you need to work in a way that suits you, learn new skills and reach your potential.</span><span data-ccp-props=&quot;{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}&quot;>&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;>For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.</span></strong><span data-ccp-props=&quot;{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}&quot;>&nbsp;</span></p>