Senior Engineering Manager

TestGorilla

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Origin: • 🇳🇱 Netherlands

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💰 €76,000 - €95,650 per year

Senior

AngularAWSCloudDistributed SystemsPythonTypeScript

About the role

Lead and inspire a product engineering team, driving technical excellence, ownership, and individual growth
Responsible for end-to-end delivery, operation, and evolution of critical product modules that power skills-based hiring
Report directly to the VP of Engineering and work closely with Product, Design, and Data leaders
Own delivery of key initiatives, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes with measurable impact
Partner with Product, Design, and other departments to drive alignment, planning, and prioritization
Build and continuously improve engineering processes that drive quality, velocity, and team productivity
Foster a data-driven culture by leveraging analytics in team and cross-functional collaborations
Define, track, and report on team health using industry-standard metrics (DORA metrics, cycle time, defect rates)
Champion a healthy codebase through maintainable, well-tested code that aligns with established standards
Drive technical vision, architecture decisions, and execution strategy in collaboration with Head of Technology and VP of Engineering
Foster a culture of trust, safety, high performance, ownership, and accountability
Actively participate in hiring, coach and mentor engineers to grow scope and impact

Passion for TestGorilla's mission to help one billion people find their dream jobs
Exceptional leadership and collaboration abilities with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Thrives in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
Proven ability to lead senior engineers, cultivate technical leadership, and build high-performing engineering teams
Deep technical background in software engineering, expertise in designing and scaling complex, distributed systems
Experience operating in high-growth SaaS environments, ideally with B2B or platform-focused products
Hands-on experience in Backend (Python) or Frontend (Angular/TypeScript) strongly preferred
Strong working knowledge of cloud-native architecture; AWS experience is a big plus
Track record of solving ambiguous problems, driving change, and leading at scale
Typically expect at least 5 years of Engineering Management experience and 10+ years in technical roles
Bonus: experience managing teams in asynchronous, fully remote, and multicultural environments
Bonus: strong product sense and history of close collaboration with product management
Bonus: background in technical hiring and employer branding for engineering orgs
Bonus: experience leading cross-functional programs in start-ups or scale-ups