Lead Engineer

Driving Innovation and Excellence in Engineering Solutions at bol

How do you make our customers happy?

By leading and taking accountability with your team to develop high-performance services and solutions for our platform. As Lead Engineer in a team of 5-9 engineers, you’ll be the ‘guardian’ ensuring every deployment is scalable and enhances the experience for our 13 million customers. Are you up to the challenge?

The biggest challenge

This role is like solving complex puzzles while walking a tightrope. You’ll need to balance rapid product development with enterprise-wide architectural considerations, all while actively contributing to the codebase. Can you maintain stability without sacrificing adaptability? Can you design solutions that are both best-in-class and quick to market? If you’re nodding, we should talk.

What you'll do as Lead Engineer

As Lead Engineer, you'll be the compass for your multidisciplinary product team. You’ll work closely with the (Group) Product Manager to ensure feasibility during discovery phases and collaborate with other Lead Engineers on cross-team architecture and technical decisions. You will collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager to optimize team performance, drive technical decision-making, and design effective solutions.

As part of the Fraud and Risk department, you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding our platform against financial crime. Our team specializes in Customer Due Diligence (CDD), ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while proactively identifying and mitigating risks related to identity fraud, money laundering, and other financial threats. You’ll collaborate closely with data analysts, compliance officers, and product teams to develop and refine risk models, automate detection workflows, and enhance our customer onboarding processes with a risk-first mindset.

You’ll be the guardian of code quality, the architect of elegant solutions, and the bridge between your team’s work and our broader enterprise architecture. While you won’t manage the team directly, you’ll lead by example, actively contributing to the codebase and making key technical decisions – tough calls galore! You’ll be crucial in maintaining the health of our systems, continuously improving solutions, and ensuring that every product we build is not just functional, but exceptional. Additionally, you’ll be the first point of contact for technical matters, translating complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders when needed.

• Leading daily engineering efforts for your product team
• Designing solutions that neatly align with our enterprise architecture
• Ensuring technical and architectural health of team solutions
• Making and overseeing technical decisions within the team
• Guarding code quality and feasibility in product discovery
• Actively contributing to the team's codebase
• Serving as the technical liaison for your team

Key qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development in complex, fast-paced environments.
• 3+ years of experience leading teams of 5-9 engineers in building scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Strong architectural and solution design skills aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Pragmatic, results-driven leadership focused on delivery and technical integrity.
• Collaborative team player who empowers engineers while making critical decisions.
• Active contributor to the codebase, ensuring code quality and innovative solutions.
• Excellent communicator, effectively coordinating with other teams, Engineering Managers, Product Managers and stakeholders.

3 redenen waarom dit (n)iets voor jou is

• Silo-based: You’re fine with technically integrated projects, just not with team or stakeholder interaction. Or vice versa.
• Linear or fixed mindset: You do not believe in iterative feedback and continuous improvement.
• Perfectionist to a fault: You can't fathom deploying code before it's completely bug-free.

Impressive track record: Merging complex technical solutions with team collaboration is your forte.

• Link between product and enterprise: Optimizing products within an enterprise architecture comes naturally.
• Full-stack communicator: You can easily communicate between engineers, engineering leadership and product people.

Where you'll land

Welcome to bol, the e-commerce wonderland where 13 million customers shop from a treasure trove of 37 million products. You’ll be joining a crew of 2,900 innovators who’ve been disrupting retail since 1999. We’re always pushing the envelope, and if there’s a better way to build our platform, we want you to help realize it! Here, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with top talent, and directly influence how we innovate in the fast-paced world of e-commerce. Your impact will ripple through our entire organization, touching the lives of millions of customers and tens of thousands of partners.

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