🚀 Help build and grow a high-performing engineering organisation that powers Appical’s onboarding platform 🚀

About the role 🧐

As an Engineering Manager (People Lead), you play a key role in how our organisation grows, performs, and delivers. You combine people leadership with delivery ownership, coaching engineers to grow, keeping teams effective, and turning product ideas into reliable, high-quality software.

You’ll lead a team (around 5 direct reports) and work closely with the Tech Leads and Product Managers. Together, you make sure priorities are clear, execution stays on track, and the team continuously improves how it works.

While your primary focus is on people and delivery leadership, we value people managers who stay genuinely close to the work. Depending on your background and interests, there is room to contribute hands-on, whether through code reviews, technical input, or picking up a task when it helps the team. That kind of involvement is something we appreciate and encourage.

In this role, you'll be joining the Product & Development team. A team led by Gijs Hendrix.

What you’ll do

You coach and support engineers in their growth and performance, helping them develop their skills and reach their potential. You foster a strong culture of feedback, learning, and collaboration, where people can do their best work and continuously improve.

You help the team stay focused and aligned by ensuring clear priorities, realistic planning, and smooth delivery. You work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to keep execution on track, and contribute to the meetings and rituals that keep the team aligned and moving forward. Beyond the team itself, you drive alignment across teams and functions, and play an active role in product and personnel decisions that affect the team's direction and growth.

You also play an active role in how the team works together day to day. You look for ways to improve collaboration, simplify ways of working, and ensure the team keeps moving forward effectively. Continuous improvement is a natural part of how you operate.

In addition, you help build and support a strong and healthy team. You are involved in hiring and onboarding, and you make sure new team members can ramp up quickly and successfully. You keep an eye on team health, balance, and dynamics, and step in early when support is needed.

You’re a match if you… 💗

• Have experience in engineering leadership or are a senior engineer ready for people leadership

• Enjoy coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow

• Understand how software teams operate in a SaaS environment

• Can balance delivery, people, and product priorities

• Are comfortable working closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads

• Care about psychological safety and healthy team dynamics

• Can effectively lead a team of up to 5 engineers

• Are curious about how AI can improve modern engineering workflows

Don’t worry if you don’t meet all the criteria; a growth mindset and eagerness to learn are more important than ticking all the boxes.

What you'll get 🎉

• A leadership role with real ownership and impact with plenty of freedom and responsibility.

• You will become part of a unique scale-up organization with over 45 inspiring and talented colleagues.

• Cool office in Amsterdam-Noord (Pand Noord - Meeuwenlaan).

• An open and inclusive culture with lots of freedom and room for initiative.

• Competitive salary (Between €5.000,- and €6.750,- fulltime gross per month) based on your level of experience.

• An extensive pension plan to be tailored to your needs.

• A MacBook.

• Opportunity to participate in OneFit (company fitness) at a discount or other gym memberships.

• Hybrid and flexible work schedule.

• Opportunity for workations for 4 weeks per year.

• Daily delicious and healthy lunch.

• Access to mental well-being platform OpenUp for big or small challenges, whether work-related or not.

• We value personal growth, and Appical supports your ambition and professional development with various resources, training, and workshops.

• A Fun Committee that organizes fun activities such as board game nights, sports events, and theme parties.

About us 😃

"New beginnings start here!"

Since our establishment in 2012, we have been fully dedicated to transforming the world of pre- and onboarding. With our interactive platform, we offer newcomers worldwide a warm welcome and an unforgettable start. Together, we can turn every new beginning into an unforgettable experience!

Our mission goes beyond just the first day of work; we create digital, personal onboarding experiences from start to finish. We support organizations in successfully integrating new colleagues during their initial period of employment, as well as during any transitions they may experience thereafter (think of reboarding and offboarding).

With over 450 clients and 620,000+ users now, and as a proud member of the Visma family, we invite you to join us in further expanding the success of Appical!

Sounds good, right?

Are you the Engineering Manager (People Lead) we're looking for? Then we'd love to receive your cv and motivation letter via the link in this vacancy. We look forward to meeting you!

Any questions? Feel free to contact Joëlle van Erp (Recruiter) at +31 6 48710158.

Note: We do not work with external recruiters for this position.