Engineering Manager

Engineering

Vilvoorde / Gent

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As an Engineering Manager, you lead one engineering squad within a product line, typically between four and twelve engineers. This is the first formal people leadership role in our engineering organization.


You are accountable for team performance, delivery quality, and the operational health of the systems your team owns. You balance execution with people leadership, ensuring alignment with product priorities while building a healthy, engaged, and sustainable engineering environment.


You act as the primary interface between your team and product stakeholders, creating clarity, focus, and accountability.

Challenge?

• Lead and develop a high performing engineering team through regular one on ones, feedback cycles, and growth plans.

• Create a psychologically safe, inclusive, and accountable team culture.

• Ensure predictable, high quality delivery aligned with product roadmap priorities.

• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery rituals.

• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery and operational risks.

• Own team level metrics such as throughput, cycle time, defect rate, and system stability.

• Ensure production health, reliability, and SLA adherence for your team’s systems.

• Partner closely with the Tech Lead to balance feature delivery and technical sustainability.

• Support incident management and drive meaningful postmortem improvements.

• Improve team processes continuously and align with other Engineering Managers on standards and best practices.

• Provide clear visibility into progress, risks, and trade offs to stakeholders

Profile?


• Strong background as a software engineer with solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle

• Prior experience coaching and developing engineers at different seniority levels

• Comfortable engaging in architectural discussions and understanding technical trade offs

• Experience working in agile delivery environments

• Able to balance roadmap ambition with realistic team capacity

• Skilled in delivering clear, constructive feedback and managing performance

• Strong communicator who can translate engineering constraints into business language

• Demonstrated ability to foster ownership, accountability, and focus within a team

• Calm and structured in handling conflict, performance challenges, and operational incidents

• Motivated to grow as a people leader while maintaining technical credibility

• Fluent in English as the main working language, knowledge of Dutch and or French is a plus


Offer:

• A fascinating and challenging role within an experienced, highly innovative, and dynamic team and company

• Extensive learning opportunities as we continuously improve our processes and strengthen our business partnering through in depth business analysis

• An attractive salary package aligned with your experience and responsibilities

• A broad range of extra legal benefits including a company car with fuel card, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, and additional ambulatory care insurance

• A solid and comprehensive training plan complemented by our Corilus Employee College, supporting continuous professional development

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