Engineering Manager - Retailer 1

Engineering a well-designed financial landscape for a high impact future

How do you make our partners happy?

By empowering two teams to build well-designed, lean, transparent and reliable solutions that together create the financial heartbeat of Retailer 1. You’ll foster a culture of ownership, cross team collaboration, and continuous improvement that enables teams to deliver outcomes that matter—fueling the success of Retailer 1 on our bol platform and with that serving our 13 million customers. It’s where the ‘money rubber’ hits the road 😊 Ready to lead innovation where design complexity is high, and the stakes are too?

The biggest challenge

Simplicity and high impact through boundary design, reliability, focused innovation and continuous improvement. Can you coach resilient teams to step by step improve the R1 financial eco-system, making it every day more simple and impactful?

Teams who have high quality standards and reliability as a second nature so they can focus on innovation and continuous improvement. Teams who understand the need and joy of collaborating cross-functionally, both inside the area and outside, with our close collab-teams in Finance and R1 commercial operations.

We’re looking for someone who together with the teams and their environment can form a vision and can translate that into a clear path towards a healthy, trustworthy and impactful financial heartbeat for Retailer1.

What you'll do as Engineering Manager

As Engineering Manager in Retailer 1 Foundation – Financials, you’ll lead two high-impact teams focused on streamlining the financial flow of Retailer 1 on behalf of the whole area and thus ensuring a big chunk of bol’s overall financial results.

You’ll manage around 10 colleagues and report to a Head of Engineering. You will join a team of 3 other Engineering Managers who together make up the Engineering Leadership team of Retailer 1. In R1 Foundation you will be 1 of 2 Engineering Managers, collaborating with 1 Group Product Manager; day to day you will have primary focus on the financial part of Foundation.

You’ll own the full engineering lifecycle, from discovery and delivery to operations and continuous improvement. Your technical leadership will help steer architecture and process, while your people leadership will elevate individual growth and team cohesion. You’ll also work closely with Product leaders to shape the roadmap and align it with bol’s strategic ambitions.

Beyond team delivery, you’ll:

• Drive engineering quality, resilience, and best practices
• Support hiring and team composition, attracting top-tier talent
• Use data and metrics to foster a culture of performance and growth
• Champion collaboration within tech and between tech and business
• Manage budgets for tech services, cloud infrastructure, and tooling
• Mitigate technical and compliance risks

Key qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience
• Strong coaching and mentoring abilities
• Track record of driving engineering excellence and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience working with a tech vision and bringing strategy to life via impactful delivery

Why this role makes an impact

You’ll be directly influencing Retailer 1’s financial flow, making up a significant and crucial part of our bol results. You are joining in a phase when Retailer1 is reshaping itself to be better equipped for the future of the next 3 to 5 years. For our financial teams that means ruthlessly prioritizing our landscape clarity, intensifying our collaborations to ensure we get the most value out of our systems, and finding synergy within our 2 financial teams to be as efficient and effective as we can.

All uncharted territory so there is a big opportunity to co-shape our future way of working.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

• Comfort Zone Seeker You’d rather stay with the familiar than help shape what’s next.
• Solo Operator You prefer working independently over aligning and collaborating across multiple teams and domains.
• Maintenance Mindset You're more comfortable optimizing what's already there than building systems that need to scale fast and evolve constantly.

• Empathetic Leader You build high-performing teams that feel safe, supported, and stretched.
• Engineering Strategist You connect dots—from architecture to business value—with clarity and conviction.
• Change Embracer You thrive in dynamic environments and guide teams through ambiguity with confidence.

Where you'll land

At the leading e-commerce tech platform in the Netherlands and Belgium. Bol is where 13 million customers shop and 49,000 partners sell. Our Partner Journey domain is central to this ecosystem—and always evolving. Here, you’ll work alongside over 2,900 colleagues united by one belief: there’s always a better way. Let’s build it—together.

We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day. Our annual bonus is tied to sustainability goals.

Perks of having a blue heart

Flexible working

We bring the best of both worlds together by working 50% at the office and 50% at home. This way, we find a balance between organisational and individual needs.

The culture and the office

Our colleagues work hard to make the daily lives of our customers easier and more fun. But of course, we do this in an inspiring and creative environment!

Relocation

Bol wants to ensure that you make the best possible transition. We offer relocation assistance to the Netherlands from the moment you have the job.