This is not…

• Not a hands-off management role. You will still design, review, and write production code every week.
• Not a pure IC or architect role. You are accountable for people and for delivery, not only for the code. If you are looking to step back from management, or to step back from coding, this is not the role.
• Not a role where "leading engineers" was a title without the substance. If your team-lead experience didn't include running your own 1:1s, hiring, and personally handling underperformance, this role will feel like a bigger jump than it looks on paper.

Contract type

This role starts as a fixed-term contract, and permanent contract will be offered once the confidence of long-term collaboration is well established. If you need a permanent contract from day one, this isn't the right fit for you right now — for everyone else, it's the standard structure we use to make sure it's a genuine two-way fit before we commit long-term.

Must-haves (these are gates)

• 7+ of your most recent years in software engineering with deep, current .NET / C# expertise — this needs to be your active day-to-day stack now, not a language you used earlier in your career.
• 2+ years of current, full-scope people management as a Engineering Manager, meaning you've personally run recurring 1:1s, hired, and managed underperformance through to a resolution, including an exit where needed. A lead or architect title without this substance isn't enough.
• Strong hands-on coding background, you'd rather write code than avoid it.
• You use AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor's agent mode, or similar) as a daily driver, not just autocomplete, instead being comfortable directing agentic workflows, and ready to bring that fluency to how your team works, not only how you personally code.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns, SOLID, TDD, DDD, Event Sourcing and CQRS; practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and message brokers (RabbitMQ or similar); hands-on with microservices and Docker.
• Based in the Netherlands and able to work from our Rotterdam office 3 days per week. (We can sponsor highly-skilled-migrant candidates already in, or relocating to, the NL; we do not relocate candidates currently based outside the country.)

Nice to have (bonus, genuinely not required)

• Building and owning APIs, webhooks, or platform/integration products; connecting to enterprise finance/HR/scheduling systems; driving external partner/supplier integrations to live deployment.
• Experience with AWS or Kubernetes.

Tech stack

C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, AWS; alongside Docker, Redis, Elasticsearch and other supporting services across the wider platform.

The squad

It's a small, lean and focused team working remotely across European time zones, with you connecting it to the wider company from our Rotterdam office. You report directly to the CTO.

What we offer

• A hands-on technical leadership role with significant ownership of a business-critical domain.
• Hybrid working from our Rotterdam office, three days a week; close to your Product Owner and the cross-department stakeholders whose work depends on the squad, so the tightest collaboration happens in person.
• Professional growth in a fast-moving company at the intersection of travel and engineering.

Hiring process

1. Recruiter / HR call: role, motivation, logistics, plus an interactive technical assignment.
2. Technical challenge / interview.
3. Meet the CTO.

Target: ~2–3 weeks end to end.

Pre-employment screening

If your application is successful, we may conduct a pre-employment screening through a trusted third party, in line with applicable laws — this may include employment history, education, and other relevant publicly available information to help us understand your suitability for the role.

C Teleport is an equal-opportunity employer. We assess every application on merit and handle your data in line with GDPR.