Engineering Manager, Appical
People Lead
€5.000,- and €6.750,- fulltime gross per month
Office located in Meeuwenlaan, Amsterdam
Delivering employee centric onboarding experiences
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Delivering employee centric onboarding experiences
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
€5.000,- and €6.750,- fulltime gross per month
Office located in Meeuwenlaan, Amsterdam
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies give new employees a great onboarding experience.
Role
Who you are
- Have experience in engineering leadership or are a senior engineer ready for people leadership
- Enjoy coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow
- Understand how software teams operate in a SaaS environment
- Can balance delivery, people, and product priorities
- Are comfortable working closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads
- Care about psychological safety and healthy team dynamics
- Can effectively lead a team of up to 5 engineers
- Are curious about how AI can improve modern engineering workflows
- Don’t worry if you don’t meet all the criteria; a growth mindset and eagerness to learn are more important than ticking all the boxes
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager (People Lead), you play a key role in how our organisation grows, performs, and delivers. You combine people leadership with delivery ownership, coaching engineers to grow, keeping teams effective, and turning product ideas into reliable, high-quality software
- You’ll lead a team (around 5 direct reports) and work closely with the Tech Leads and Product Managers. Together, you make sure priorities are clear, execution stays on track, and the team continuously improves how it works
- While your primary focus is on people and delivery leadership, we value people managers who stay genuinely close to the work. Depending on your background and interests, there is room to contribute hands-on, whether through code reviews, technical input, or picking up a task when it helps the team. That kind of involvement is something we appreciate and encourage
- In this role, you'll be joining the Product & Development team. A team led by Gijs Hendrix
- You coach and support engineers in their growth and performance, helping them develop their skills and reach their potential. You foster a strong culture of feedback, learning, and collaboration, where people can do their best work and continuously improve
- You help the team stay focused and aligned by ensuring clear priorities, realistic planning, and smooth delivery. You work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to keep execution on track, and contribute to the meetings and rituals that keep the team aligned and moving forward. Beyond the team itself, you drive alignment across teams and functions, and play an active role in product and personnel decisions that affect the team's direction and growth
- You also play an active role in how the team works together day to day. You look for ways to improve collaboration, simplify ways of working, and ensure the team keeps moving forward effectively. Continuous improvement is a natural part of how you operate
- In addition, you help build and support a strong and healthy team. You are involved in hiring and onboarding, and you make sure new team members can ramp up quickly and successfully. You keep an eye on team health, balance, and dynamics, and step in early when support is needed
Application process
- We usually respond within two weeks
Our take
Appical is an onboarding platform supporting employees through all phases of the employment process. It empowers users to create the best possible employee onboarding experiences through how-to videos, gamification, quizzes, to-do lists, and documentation.
A leader in onboarding tech, the company is both digitising and simplifying the process. It has served hundreds of customers in over 140 countries, including the likes of PepsiCo, HP, Heineken, Hello Fresh and Bosch.
In 2022, Appical was acquired by Visma, a Norwegian company providing business software and services for accounting and administration. With Visma's products being complementary to Appical's platform, the two companies are in a position of great value within the European market.
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Company benefits
- Innovative and creative scale-up
- Macbook
- Phone contribution or iPhone with SIM
- Open, inclusive & diverse culture
- Epic team events & office parties
- Office in Amsterdam
- Paternity leave
- Appical Swag
- Flexible working hours
- Daily fresh lunch at the office
- Travel reimbursement
- Referral bonus
- 25 vacation days
- Learning platform with 300+ courses
- Bike plan
- Pension scheme
- Fitness membership offer
- Remote working
Company HQ
Buiksloterham, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Wietske van Hees
(Managing Director)Previously a Board Member at Roxit, Director of Customer Success at Visma and was a Director of Education at Raet.
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