Hybrid Engineering Manager

at bloomon

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Amsterdam, Netherlands

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading Domain Engineering squad at Bloom & Wild. Focused on architecture, scalability, and developer velocity while nurturing talent and fostering a culture of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Leading a pivotal squad: You will lead the Domain Engineering squad. A specialised squad designed to facilitate and enable our other Product Engineering squads, helping them move faster by removing architectural dependencies. Your mission is to clear the path for other squads, removing friction and unlocking velocity across the entire business.
• Shaping the future architecture: You won't just maintain code; you’ll actively deconstruct our monolith. You will be responsible for leading the strategy to identify domain boundaries and build the clear interfaces that transform our platform into a scalable, distributed system.
• Staying technical and hands-on: You will balance technical leadership with people management. We’d like someone who can dive into the code, pair on complex problems, and "get stuck in" alongside the team to drive delivery, while also guiding the squad's technical direction.
• Solving the "Scale" puzzle: You will guide the team to look beyond simple execution, focusing on high-level software design and architectural principles. You are solving the complex problems that come with success, ensuring our technology grows as fast as our business.
• Growing and nurturing talent: You’ll take immediate ownership for hiring and building a cohesive, high-performing team from the ground up, with a focus on enabling personal growth and career development.
• Collaborating to unlock value: You will work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to scope out technical roadmaps that don't just deliver features, but ensure long-term system health and stability.
• Championing technical excellence: You will set a high bar for code quality, helping the team understand why we build things a certain way and spotting architectural "wrong turns" before they become blockers.
• Fostering a culture of ownership: You will encourage the team to own their work from ideation through to production release, creating an environment of autonomy, accountability, and technical pride.

Requirements

• You are an empathetic leader who genuinely loves delivering through others. While your primary focus is on guidance and enablement, you are also comfortable being hands-on when necessary, and maintain the technical capability to contribute directly to the code base and architecture. You are comfortable guiding, evaluating, and flexing your style to get the best from those around you.
• You have a deep understanding of software architecture and design principles, specifically regarding the decoupling of large monoliths and defining clear domain boundaries (we value architectural thinking over specific language experience).
• Your background in software development combined with experience in people management, allows you to effectively guide the technical direction of a squad of highly senior engineers.
• You worked in an engineering environment of significant scale, understanding the challenges of enabling multiple squads to deploy independently and ensuring system stability.
• You’re excited about problem-solving and have a curious mindset, loving to learn and often taking initiative to improve things, especially when taking a logical and collaborative approach to finding solutions cross-functionally with other teams.
• You have a positive and optimistic attitude - you overcome setbacks and obstacles, and inspire and motivate those around you too.

Benefits

• Flexible working (core hours from 10-4pm)
• Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year
• Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
• 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart
• We’ll support your commute to our office and site locations. Depending on your journey to work, this may include a Swapfiets, an NS business card or expense reimbursement
• Phone allowance
• 24 vacation days and an option to buy an extra 5 each year
• Happiness days (1 extra day each quarter for your personal ‘me time’)
• 1 celebration day per year, to celebrate a holiday that’s important to you
• Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar
• Mental health support through Open Up, including access to online therapy sessions
• Allies and champions groups
• Mental Health First Aiders and awareness training for our managers
• In person and virtual yoga every week
• Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going
• Workplace pension contributions
• A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme
• Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics.
• We love having lunch together! We offer daily fresh and healthy lunch options at our locations in Amsterdam and Amstelveen,
• A BBQ-worthy rooftop terrace (Amsterdam HQ)
• Social & wellbeing monthly calendar
• We love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other important milestones!
• Summer and End of Year events, team lunches and post-peak celebrations
• Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!