Build and grow the teams

• Foster a highly engaged engineering team through regular, thoughtful 1-on-1s, effective retrospectives, and proactive identification and addressing of sources of dissatisfaction.
• Be accountable for successfully onboarding new engineers, ensuring new engineers become productive and integrated quickly.
• Actively develop engineers through coaching, feedback, and targeted growth opportunities aligned with both individual aspirations and company needs.
• Set clear performance expectations and hold a high bar - delivering regular, direct feedback - both praise and course corrections.
• When the need arises: together with Tech Leads, identify hiring needs and drive the recruiting process.

Drive engineering success

• Partner closely with Product to maintain alignment and momentum around established goals and priorities.
• Be an enabler for the product teams you support: remove technical obstacles, assist with technical decisions, and maintain high team health.
• Together with Tech Leads and the Head of Software Engineering, drive a culture of technical excellence and establish best practices across the organization.
• Ensure sustainable high team performance by balancing ambitious goals,, quality, and team health over time.
• Identify and lead improvement initiatives - both within individual teams and across the software development organization.

Stay connected to the craft

• Spend 20-30% of your time contributing hands-on as a developer within one of the cross-functional teams. Team assignment may rotate.
• Maintain a holistic understanding of the full product and technology landscape at HOLOPLOT - from how a system is configured to how audio reaches the audience - so you can connect the dots and keep development on track.
• Set up and guide smaller workgroups for cross-stack tasks, and connect the right people to tackle them efficiently.

Foster a healthy organization

• Shape a productive work environment by championing collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement within the broader software development organization.
• Lead by example with a pragmatic, hands-on, "can-do" mindset, never shying away from getting your hands dirty.
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, even under pressure - calm, focused, and intentional.
• Inspire trust, ownership, and accountability across teams.
• Be proactive and motivate the people around you to take strong action. But also be calm and conscious.

• Proven experience in an engineering management or team lead role, managing software engineers in a cross-functional product development setting.
• A strong technical background as a software engineer - you have shipped production code and are comfortable contributing hands-on.
• Familiarity with several of the technologies in our stack: Go, Python, C++, Rust, TypeScript/Vue, Kubernetes, NATS, gRPC, …
• Experience building, growing, and retaining engineering teams: hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to foster collaboration and trust within and across teams.
• Experience working in agile, cross-functional product teams alongside Product Managers, Designers, and Tech Leads.
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written. You can explain complex situations clearly to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.
• A genuine interest in people and people development - you find satisfaction in helping engineers grow and succeed.
• Experience in using AI for engineering.

• Experience in the (professional) audio, embedded systems, or IoT industry.
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization and establishing engineering-wide processes and standards.