About this role
ABOUT THE COMPANY An informal, well-established tech organisation in the real estate sector, based in central Rotterdam. Dutch and international consumerplatforms connecting house hunters with rental professionals. Short lines of communication, no politics, a lot of autonomy, and anengineering culture where AI-first working is genuinely meant. You report directly to the Head of Tech and are part of the engineeringmanagement team. THE ROLE You are responsible for the people, the processes and the execution power of your team(s). In practice that means:People leadership: one-on-ones, development plans and coaching tech leads and product owners on both the technical and personalside. Giving direction to product and engineering at the same time. You are the person who can hold a product discussion and anarchitecture discussion in the same conversation, and bring the whole team along on the outcome. Steering on measurable impact: SEO, SEA and CRO, Core Web Vitals, conversion and reliability, balanced against maintenance andtechnical debt. Safeguarding quality, security and scalability. Automated testing, monitoring and observability are a team responsibility here. Taking agentic AI further. Agents that write code independently, run spikes and substantiate architectural choices are already part ofdaily practice. You push the boundaries and bring the teams with you. Leading by example. Stakeholder management towards marketing, business and the board, plus attracting new senior talent. Technically you work with PHP (DDD/CQRS) and JavaScript, Docker and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform, mature CI/CD pipelines andtooling such as PHPStan, CS Fixer and Deptrac. Legacy components are being migrated to modern architectures step by step. WHAT YOU BRING At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, of which 3 to 5 in a leadership role (EM, Team Lead or Engineering Lead). Technically strong, preferably in PHP and JavaScript, ...