About the role
A career driven by you. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We're not just leading the market; we're creating it. We're constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers. We're driven, ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn't stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team responsible for the backend platform powering one of the Netherlands' largest automotive marketplaces.
You'll lead a team of approximately 5-6 engineers (currently supported by external engineers during an ongoing platform modernization). The team owns the core backend services that power the entire platform, including:
Vehicle data ingestion from hundreds of external providers
Backend services and business logic powering the platform
Data matching, validation, enrichment and quality
Search ranking and listing lifecycle management
Click tracking, billing logic and fraud/bot protection
Platform reliability, operational excellence and incident management
The team is currently modernizing its backend platform, migrating from a legacy PHP/Scala stack to Java on AWS.
What you'll do
Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team
Partner closely with Product to define priorities and successfully deliver the roadmap
Drive technical excellence, engineering quality and operational maturity
Lead architecture and technical discussions across multiple teams
Establish strong operational practices, including on-call processes, incident management and post-incident reviews
Improve system reliability, scalability and performance for a business-critical platform
Coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and external dependencies
Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives across AutoScout24 Group
AI & Engineering Productivity
Operate at a high level of efficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools
Coach engineers on adopting AI to improve software quality and delivery speed
Act as a role model for effective AI usage across engineering and leadership activities
Identify opportunities to integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle
Support the team's AI maturity and adoption as part of its ongoing transformation
Technical environment
Java (primary language)
Scala (legacy services)
PHP (being phased out)
AWS
Kafka
PostgreSQL
Event-driven architecture
Distributed backend systems
What you'll bring
3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
Strong prior experience as a hands-on software engineer
Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
Strong background in object-oriented programming (preferably Java)
Experience leading architecture and technical decision-making
Experience introducing and running operational excellence practices, including on-call rotations, incident response and postmortems
Proven ability to deliver complex cross-team initiatives with multiple stakeholders
Passion for coaching engineers and building high-performing teams
Experience driving adoption of modern AI development practices within engineering teams is highly desirable
A culture of growth
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.
For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.
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