Engineering Manager - Foundations & Enablement

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Foundations & Enablement based in Netherlands.

This remote leadership role offers the opportunity to lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for the foundations that enable other teams to move quickly, securely, and consistently. You will own the team’s people development, performance, delivery, and technical roadmap while balancing requests from multiple product teams. The role spans developer experience, CI/CD, security practices, tooling, and shared platform capabilities. You will work across both frontend and backend disciplines and partner closely with Infrastructure on shared platform concerns. Success in this position requires strong technical judgment, clear prioritization, and the ability to communicate trade-offs across teams. In a globally distributed environment, you will help create scalable engineering practices while supporting a culture of coaching, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities

• Lead and support a cross-functional engineering team, focusing on delivery, people development, team performance, and continuous process improvement.
• Balance the team's technical roadmap with prioritized requests from multiple product teams, clearly communicating priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Maintain and evolve engineering-wide standards covering security, tooling, CI/CD, developer experience, and shared engineering practices.
• Partner closely with the Infrastructure team on shared platform concerns while maintaining clear ownership boundaries and responsibilities.
• Mentor engineers in their professional development and promote a culture of active coaching and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Support engineers with technical decision-making while ensuring delivery processes remain effective and commitments are met.
• Establish delivery estimates, monitor progress, identify risks, and help the team remove blockers and resolve obstacles.
• Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding activities to strengthen and grow the engineering team.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, establish goals, evaluate performance, and provide continuous feedback.
• Foster strong documentation, knowledge sharing, and open communication across the broader engineering organization.
• Promote empathy, openness, and inclusion while contributing to a positive culture within a diverse, globally distributed workforce.
• Continuously improve engineering processes and ways of working in a remote-first environment.