Engineering Manager Platform Team Utrecht

Vacancy: Engineering Manager Platform Team

• Do you get energy from helping engineers do their best work, rather than trying to be the smartest person in the room yourself?
• Do you enjoy working at the intersection of people, product and technology, keeping overview, removing friction and helping teams move forward with confidence?
• And do you want to contribute to a technology platform that enables the global transition toward cleaner energy, while working in a remote-first, product-driven engineering organisation and earning up to €110k, +stock options and unlimited holidays?

Then this role is very likely worth your attention.

Your employer: a remote-first product scale-up enabling the clean-energy transition

Your employer is a successful, venture-backed technology scale-up building a platform that helps make modern energy systems more flexible, reliable and sustainable. Their software enables energy providers, technology partners and operators to work smarter in a world that is rapidly shifting toward renewable energy.

The platform already operates at meaningful scale across multiple regions and time zones. As renewable energy becomes more dominant, complexity increases rather than decreases.This makes reliability, consistency and strong engineering practices critical to the company’s success.

The organisation operates remote-first, with engineering, product and data teams spread across the Netherlands and the US. Despite the distributed setup, collaboration is strong, communication is clear and teams are closely aligned around shared product goals.

Engineering plays a central role in the company. Decisions are product-driven, data-informed and focused on long-term impact. The culture is mature, open and human. Psychological safety, trust and clear feedback are things people actively work on.

You join an international environment with many nationalities and disciplines working together. There is a strong sense of shared purpose and a genuine interest in making the world a better place,while helping each other grow professionally and personally.

Your role: Engineering Manager Platform Team Utrecht

As Engineering Manager Platform Team Utrecht, you lead a multidisciplinary Platform teamconsisting of backend engineers, SREs and data engineers. This team enables the rest of the engineering organisation by providing a stable, scalable and developer-friendly foundation.

Your primary responsibility is not to out-code your team, but to help them perform at their best.You remove blockers, improve collaboration, create clarity and help people grow.You keep a high-level overview of what the team is doing, why it matters and how it connects to broader product and company goals.

You come from a development background and understand modern software engineering well enough to actively participate in technical discussions. You can comfortably talk about backend systems, infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code. At the same time, you rely on your team’s technical expertise and empower them to own the details.

You balance people management with hands-on involvement in a way that fits you and the team. Some Engineering Managers in this organisation stay close to the code, others focus more on coaching, coordination and strategy. You have the freedom to shape this role based on your strengths.

Your responsibilities include:

• Supporting engineers through 1-on-1s, feedback, coaching and career development
• Creating a safe, energetic and productive team environment
• Hiring new team members and owning performance cycles, reviews and growth plans
• Helping the team prioritise work, manage capacity and stay focused on delivering value
• Building strong bridgeswith product, data and other engineering teams
• Keeping standards high around modern cloud engineering practices, without micromanaging
• Helping the organisation mature its way of working as it continues to scale

This is a role for someone who enjoys making others successful, who sees leadership as a craft and who gets satisfaction from enabling impact rather than claiming it.

What is required

• A background in software development, with a solid understanding of modern backend and cloud engineering
• Experience leading or coaching engineers in a product-driven environment
• Strong understanding of cloud-native concepts such as CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, containerisation and platform thinking
• Good understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform or SRE-style teams
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
• The ability to communicate effectively across disciplines including engineering, product and data
• High emotional intelligence and a people-first leadership style
• A strong product mindset and comfort working in a remote-first organisation
• The ability to successfully in a remote-first environment

What is offered

• Salary between €95.000 and €110.000, depending on experience and impact
• Stock options, allowing you to share in the long-term success of the company
• Unlimited holidays on top of statutory leave
• Good pension!
• A senior leadership role in a mission-driven technology scale-up
• A high degree of autonomy and trust in how you shape your role
• Access to a modern office in Utrecht when you want to work together in person
• The opportunity to lead a diverse, multidisciplinary engineering team
• A remote-first setup with flexibility and a strong engineering culture
• Collaboration with experienced engineers, product leaders and data specialists
• A meaningful product with real-world impact on global sustainability

Ready to help a platform team grow and enable impact at scale?