Engineering Manager, Bill Pay
Run the six people who own supplier bills, from the inbox they arrive in to the payment that clears them.
Amsterdam · Hybrid, three days in office · Full-time
Salary band · published
€88,000 – €108,000
EUR per year · Manager · M3
Role at a glance
- Team
- Bill Pay
- Reports to
- Tomas Ekdahl, Co-founder & CTO
- Level
- Manager · M3
- Location
- Amsterdam, three days a week in the office
- Band
- €88,000 – €108,000 EUR per year
- Equity
- Options in the offer, four-year schedule
- Start
- From September 2026
About the role
Bill pay is six engineers and a product surface that a finance team touches every single working day. A bill arrives as a PDF in a mailbox, gets read, routes to whoever is allowed to approve it at that amount, and joins a payment run — and every one of those four steps is somebody's afternoon if it goes wrong.
You would manage the team and own the roadmap with the product designer beside you. We expect a manager here to keep reading code and reviewing designs; what we do not expect is that you write the team's features yourself.
What you'll do
- Run six engineers: one-to-ones, growth, hiring, and the honest conversation when it is needed.
- Own the bill pay roadmap with product and design, and defend the quarter it implies.
- Keep the approval engine and the document pipeline correct as more thresholds and entities land on them.
- Set the on-call rotation and make sure the review after an incident changes something.
- Represent bill pay to support and implementation, who hear about it first.
What you'll bring
- Two or more years managing engineers, and several before that writing production code.
- A record of shipping a roadmap without spending the team to do it.
- The judgement to know which correctness argument is worth a week and which is worth an hour.
- Comfort giving direct feedback early, in a small company where everyone will hear the result.
- Enough written English to put a decision, and its rejected alternative, in front of the whole company.
Nice to have
- Have run a team that owned money movement, approvals or documents.
- Hired into a European market with published salary bands.
- Kotlin or Go — bill pay is Kotlin, but the team's language is not what we are hiring for.
How we hire
Four steps, and a decision either way.
The same four for every role.No take-home that eats a weekend, and no round that exists to see whether you will put up with another round.
- Intro
A thirty-minute call
With the hiring manager, never a recruiter. You ask about the work, we ask what you have actually owned.
Same week you apply
- Craft
One piece of real work
A ninety-minute exercise taken from our own backlog — paid at your day rate if you would rather it were.
90 minutes, paid
- Team
Meet the three people
The ones you would sit beside, including whoever would review your code or sign off your ledger.
Two hours, one day
- Offer
A yes or a reason
A yes carries the band and the start date. A no carries why. Nobody is left to work it out from silence.
Inside two weeks
Benefits
Eight things you get on day one.
The same eight in Amsterdam and Lisbon.Nothing here is discretionary and nothing is a perk you have to ask twice for.
- Salary band, published
- Every advert carries its range. The same band in both cities, adjusted only for local tax.
- Equity in every offer
- Options on a four-year schedule with a one-year cliff, and ten years to exercise them.
- Three days in, two out
- Tuesday to Thursday in the office. Nobody schedules a meeting on the other two.
- Thirty days off
- Plus public holidays where you work, and the week between Christmas and New Year.
- Pension and health cover
- Employer pension contribution and full health insurance in both the Netherlands and Portugal.
- €2,000 a year to learn
- Conferences, courses and books. The budget renews each January and needs no approval under €500.
- Twenty weeks parental leave
- Fully paid, whichever parent you are, with a phased return across the month after it.
- A month in the other city
- Flights and a flat covered, once a year, in whichever office is not your own.
Apply
Send it and we will read it.
A CV or a link is enough —no cover letter, no form with fourteen fields.Every application gets a reply from the hiring manager, including the ones that are a no.