IT Engineering Manager
As Engineering Manager, you are responsible for the operational and people management of ImpactBuying’s development organisation across all products and platforms. You lead multiple development disciplines and create an environment in which teams collaborate effectively and deliver high quality, secure and scalable software.
You focus on leadership, delivery, quality, culture and continuous improvement. By providing clear direction, technical guidance and mentorship, you enable teams to work efficiently, maintain strong velocity and complete sprints in a predictable and sustainable way.
You don’t act as a hands-on developer, but ensure that development teams have the support, structure and standards needed to achieve technical excellence and reliable delivery. You will report directly to our CTO.
Engineering leadership and people management
You lead and coach Tech Leads, Back- and frontend developers, Infra & security and our IT Ops team. Supporting their growth, effectiveness and accountability. You are responsible for the overall performance, engagement and development throughout the teams. You ensure clear goals, regular & structured feedback, performance management and development plans are in place for all team members. You actively contribute to building a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, collaboration and continuous learning. Act as the go-to person for technical challenges within the team.
Delivery and operational management
You oversee delivery across all development teams, ensuring predictable execution, maintain velocity and high quality outcomes. You align priorities and capacity across Verda platform development, Powerchain and IB Solutions. You ensure effective use of Agile and Scrum ways of working, and continuously improve team processes where needed. You monitor dependencies, risks and bottlenecks, and act proactively to resolve them.
Quality, security and reliability
You are accountable for software quality across teams, including QA processes, testing strategies and release cycles. You foster a strong quality culture and ensure QA is embedded structurally in development. You Enforce coding standards, perform code reviews, and promote best practices for clean and maintainable code. You work closely with security specialists to ensure scalable, resilient and secure platforms.
Stakeholder collaboration
You collaborate closely with product management, leadership and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals. You translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans for engineering teams. You communicate transparently about progress, challenges and trade-offs.
You focus on leadership, delivery, quality, culture and continuous improvement. By providing clear direction, technical guidance and mentorship, you enable teams to work efficiently, maintain strong velocity and complete sprints in a predictable and sustainable way.
You don’t act as a hands-on developer, but ensure that development teams have the support, structure and standards needed to achieve technical excellence and reliable delivery. You will report directly to our CTO.
Engineering leadership and people management
You lead and coach Tech Leads, Back- and frontend developers, Infra & security and our IT Ops team. Supporting their growth, effectiveness and accountability. You are responsible for the overall performance, engagement and development throughout the teams. You ensure clear goals, regular & structured feedback, performance management and development plans are in place for all team members. You actively contribute to building a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, collaboration and continuous learning. Act as the go-to person for technical challenges within the team.
Delivery and operational management
You oversee delivery across all development teams, ensuring predictable execution, maintain velocity and high quality outcomes. You align priorities and capacity across Verda platform development, Powerchain and IB Solutions. You ensure effective use of Agile and Scrum ways of working, and continuously improve team processes where needed. You monitor dependencies, risks and bottlenecks, and act proactively to resolve them.
Quality, security and reliability
You are accountable for software quality across teams, including QA processes, testing strategies and release cycles. You foster a strong quality culture and ensure QA is embedded structurally in development. You Enforce coding standards, perform code reviews, and promote best practices for clean and maintainable code. You work closely with security specialists to ensure scalable, resilient and secure platforms.
Stakeholder collaboration
You collaborate closely with product management, leadership and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals. You translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans for engineering teams. You communicate transparently about progress, challenges and trade-offs.
This is where we start
Tech Lead, Testing, Security, .NET, Frontend
Senior work level
8 years of work experience
English, Nederlands speaking
This is what you get back from us
Inhouse
€ 6.200 -
€ 7.000
monthly
Hybride
25 holidays
Flexible working hours
Courses
Travel allowance: Full reimbursement
Laptop
Pension
This is what you do
At least a 40-hour work week
Collaborate with 20-50 colleagues
You work with Management, IT
This is where we start
You Recognize yourself in our company values:
- Trust in yourself and the team
- You want to make a Positive Impact with the work you do, and for the people around you
- You have a Can Do Attitude about handling challenges and new things
- And you know how to Have fun and seek joy in your work.
- Extensive experience leading software development teams, including mentoring and coaching senior engineers, tech leads and managers
- Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams across backend, frontend, QA, infra and security
- Strong experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies and operating in sprint based environments at scale
- Experience scaling engineering teams and organisations in growing SaaS environments
- Solid understanding of software architecture, system design and engineering best practices, including SOLID principles, to effectively guide and challenge teams
- Experience bringing complex software solutions to production in enterprise level
- Deep understanding of software development lifecycles, QA processes, testing strategies and release management
- Strong awareness of security by design principles and experience fostering a security minded engineering culture
- Experience working with modern cloud and engineering platforms such as Azure, Git, CI/CD pipelines and Jira
- Familiarity with containerisation and infrastructure concepts such as Kubernetes, Docker and GitOps based processes
- Understanding of scalable software concepts including APIs, messaging, load balancing, SQL and NoSQL technologies
- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to provide technical
- Strong people management/communication skills combined with operational discipline and ownership
Working conditions
- A market conform salary
- Pension Plan
- 25 vacation days + 5 panic days
- Impact-Driven Work: Contribute to technology that drives ethical and sustainable business practices.
- Leadership & Growth: Opportunity to lead, mentor and grow within a company that is growing.
- Collaborative Team: Work with skilled professionals who value knowledge sharing and innovation.
- Flexible Work Environment: Hybrid & Flexible work options available.
- Attention for professional & personal development
- IB is a B-Corp organization that values diversity, equity and inclusion
- We love to do fun stuff together; quarterly team outings & more
Working at Impact Buying
Inhouse
Hybride
25 holidays
ImpactBuying B.V. is a dynamic company with a mission. We want to provide our clients with Data they can trust, report and act on to make a Positive Impact in their supply chain. We are a service-oriented, knowledge provider with a secure and collaborative software suite. Together with a committed team ImpactBuying ensures its customers know where their products come from, under which conditions they are created, and what the ingredients or components of their products are.
ImpactBuying delivers validated data that enable its customers to manage their supply chain risks in real-time and improve issues related to product safety, quality, social compliance, and environmental risks. ImpactBuying delivers services and applications with internal-, external- and self-employed colleagues.
ImpactBuying’s customers are large retailers and B2B supplier companies like Ahold Delhaize, Jumbo, DetailResult Groep, VION, SuperUnie, Action, Hema and many more. We support customers who want to make a difference in their supply chain with their buying power in a cost-effective way.
Location
Wognumebuurt 1
1817BH Alkmaar
Nederland
Wognumebuurt 1
1817BH Alkmaar
Nederland
50-100
Employees
1
Office
2010
Founding year
