# Engineering Manager

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Flexport, you will lead the development of the Platform element in our PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) hub in Amsterdam. You will be responsible for driving the platform roadmap, identifying high-leverage problems, proposing strategies, and owning execution.

## Responsibilities

- Own the developer platform roadmap, identifying what's slowing engineers down and what's highest-leverage to fix

- Lead a team of platform engineers building and evolving tools, systems, and paved paths for product engineers

- Stay close to the ground, dogfooding the platform, running developer interviews, and bringing firsthand product instincts to prioritization decisions

- Drive execution, engaging directly with hard problems, reviewing technical designs, and helping your team find solutions

- Contribute to company-wide planning, cross-team decisions, and the long-term strategy of the combined platform, security, and infrastructure organization

- Help build the Amsterdam engineering culture, including hiring, onboarding, and team rituals

## Requirements

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time building developer platforms, internal tooling, or infrastructure

- 3+ years as an engineering manager, including experience owning a technical roadmap with high autonomy

- Deep technical expertise in modern developer platform work, including CI/CD systems, container orchestration, build tooling, API gateway and service communication patterns, IAM, and observability

- Strong product instincts applied to internal users, with a track record of identifying the right problems to solve

- Experience managing in a distributed, multinational engineering organization

## Nice to Have

- Experience in data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA

- Experience with AWS

- Experience with Terraform

- Prior experience managing engineers in the Netherlands or broader EU employment contexts

## How We Work

- In Amsterdam, we come to the office 3 times a week to collaborate and ship together

- We stay closely aligned with our coworkers on other continents, requiring genuine availability for overlap with engineers around the world

- We provide the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models

## Benefits

- Opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing company with global impact

- Daily catered lunches, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks

- Commute expenses covered for employees living outside of Amsterdam

- 25 working days of vacation

- Health insurance with a collective plan

- Defined pension contribution scheme

- Equity program making every team member a shareholder

- Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living

- Parental leave benefit for mothers and partners

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD systems
- container orchestration
- build tooling
- API gateway and service communication patterns
- IAM
- observability
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA
- AWS
- Terraform

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