What you'll do
- Lead and build a new product engineering team from scratch while remaining hands-on in coding.
- Drive technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards in a major platform transformation.
- Contribute to full-stack development primarily using Ruby on Rails with server-rendered views.
- Collaborate closely with product and stakeholders to refine requirements and priorities.
- Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and code reviews to create a scalable and maintainable platform.
What you should know
- Opportunity to combine hands-on coding with leadership and team-building responsibilities.
- Role requires comfort working across both backend and frontend concerns.
- Ideal for engineers motivated by technical ownership and shaping evolving teams.
- Work environment involves ambiguity and evolving requirements, requiring proactivity and calmness.
- Strong communication skills needed to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
About the company
- A growing European technology business undergoing significant platform modernization.
- Values high-trust environment and invests heavily in internal engineering capabilities.
- Focuses on building modern, internally owned platforms replacing legacy systems.
- Operates with a remote-first setup offering flexibility within the Netherlands.
- Emphasizes technical autonomy and long-term influence on product and team development.
Key required skills
Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLTailwind CSSStimulusTDD