Engineering Manager (Excel Agents)

Join our Excel Agents Team as an Engineering Manager in Amsterdam. Lead a team focused on building AI-powered agents that automate assurance workflows. Drive the technical direction and architecture of the Excel Agent platform, and partner closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams. Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and operational excellence.

• Lead an engineering team through outcomes, set clear goals, and trust them to figure out how to achieve them.
• Drive a step change in what the team can do with AI, tackling harder problems, raising quality, and expanding ownership areas.
• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Excel Agent platform, ensuring agents are reliable, observable, secure, and effective.

• Minimum 5 years as a software engineer with a passion for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality software systems
• Experience operating systems in production with a focus on reliability, observability, and maintainability
• Track record of leading engineering teams that build with AI day to day, and making those teams measurably more effective as a result
• Strong product aptitude; can challenge product framing, translate customer needs into technical solutions, and make effective roadmap tradeoffs
• An empowerment style of management; you lead through outcomes and trust, not by assigning tasks
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud native development
• Experience building AI-powered products or platforms, ideally involving LLMs, agentic workflows, document processing, or automation systems
• A track record of growing engineers and creating high-performing teams
• At least 3 years of leading and managing engineering teams, driving performance, growth, and professional development through hands-on mentorship, feedback, and goal setting
• Strategic thinker; able to shape product direction, technical direction, and team scope, not just execute on what's handed down
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving scale-up environment
• Experience building and deploying GenAI applications in production
• Experience with agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, or AI-powered workflow automation
• Experience with Python and modern backend development practices
• Familiarity with Azure AI services, document intelligence, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience working in startups or scaleups
• Experience in fintech, audit technology, or document-intensive workflows
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools
• Strong understanding of testing strategies and engineering quality practices