Engineering Manager

Who you are

• At least 3 years of leading and managing engineering teams, driving performance, growth, and professional development through hands-on mentorship, feedback, and goal setting
• Minimum 5 years as a software engineer with a passion for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality software systems
• Track record of leading engineering teams that build with AI day to day, and making those teams measurably more effective as a result
• Experience building AI-powered products or platforms, ideally involving LLMs, agentic workflows, document processing, or automation systems
• An empowerment style of management; you lead through outcomes and trust, not by assigning tasks
• Strong product aptitude; can challenge product framing, translate customer needs into technical solutions, and make effective roadmap tradeoffs
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud native development
• Experience operating systems in production with a focus on reliability, observability, and maintainability
• A track record of growing engineers and creating high-performing teams
• Strategic thinker; able to shape product direction, technical direction, and team scope, not just execute on what's handed down
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving scale-up environment
• Experience building and deploying GenAI applications in production
• Experience with agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, or AI-powered workflow automation
• Experience with Python and modern backend development practices
• Familiarity with Azure AI services, document intelligence, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools
• Experience working in startups or scaleups
• Experience in fintech, audit technology, or document-intensive workflows
• Strong understanding of testing strategies and engineering quality practices

What the job involves

• We are looking for a skilled and passionate Engineering Manager to join our Excel Agents Team in the Amsterdam office
• Working in a bootstrapped and profitable scaleup, you'll have the unique opportunity to lead a team building the intelligence layer that automates the assurance lifecycle and brings AI directly into the workflows of auditors worldwide
• Lead an engineering team through outcomes, not tasks; set clear goals with the team and trust them to figure out how
• Make the team measurably better; raise the engineering bar, grow engineers into bigger problems, and address performance issues directly when they arise
• Drive a step change in what the team can do with AI; not just shipping faster, but tackling harder problems, raising quality, and expanding what the team can credibly own
• Lead the team responsible for building AI-powered agents that automate assurance workflows, from risk assessment and evidence gathering to control testing and documentation generation
• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Excel Agent platform, ensuring agents are reliable, observable, secure, and effective in real customer workflows
• Guide the team in designing and scaling agentic systems that combine LLMs, document intelligence, business workflows, and human oversight
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to shape the roadmap and translate customer needs into impactful AI experiences
• Make the architectural and technical calls that shape the team's systems, and stay close enough to the code to do so credibly
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and contribute to how DataSnipper leverages AI across the broader engineering organization
• Help shape the team's scope as it evolves, including expanding ownership areas and standing up new teams when needed
• Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, documentation, and operational excellence