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Engineering Lead

  • Hybrid
    • Gent, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium
  • Engineering

Job description

Hi there đŸ‘‹! We are Bizzy, but we'll talk about us later! Right now it's all about you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic technology lead with the drive to realize innovative technical solutions to join our team.

As an Engineering Lead at Bizzy, you will play a pivotal role in driving the technical excellence and growth of our engineering team. You’ll oversee a group of talented developers, ensuring they thrive while delivering high-quality solutions aligned with our business objectives. This is an opportunity to lead, mentor, and contribute to a culture of collaboration, innovation, and scalability.

This role reports to the Head of Product & Engineering and is located in Ghent, with flexibility for working from home 2 days per week.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Technical Leadership

    • Together with the Head of P&E, drive the technical strategy and ensure alignment with business goals.

    • Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable and reliable software solutions. #LeadTheWay

    • Define our technical architecture with peers in order to maximise Bizzy’ potential moving forward.

    • Set up code and deployment standards so we can guarantee the quality of delivery. Conduct regular code reviews to maintain these high-quality standards.

  • People Leadership

    • Manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers to achieve their full potential.

    • Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement. #UnitedByGrowth

    • Support the professional growth of team members through coaching and career development. #CandidCandor

  • Team & Process Management

    • Lead retrospectives and daily standups to ensure efficient team operations and improvements.

    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and customer success, to deliver impactful solutions. #UnitedByGrowth

    • Monitor team performance and optimize processes for maximum productivity and quality. Decrease lead time, improve value delivered and ship working software.

  • Innovation & Scaling

    • Proactively identify and address technical and operational challenges.

    • Champion best practices in agile software development, CI/CD, and DevOps.

    • Ensure the architecture and infrastructure can scale with the company’s growth.

Job requirements

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

  • Experience: Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in technical leadership, with a track record of minimum 6 years in various engineering positions.

  • Passion for Technology: Vision and strategic thinking to achieve technological goals. You've been there. You've written every piece of code possible and you know your way around our stack (Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, Databricks & Python). You are a technical leader and you can guide a team of motivated engineers in best practices. You've set up cloud scaling (Google Cloud), E2E testing and top-level code review practices in the past.

  • Passion for people: You enjoying interactions with your team and uplifting them to their full potential. You have the ability to coach peers and help them to mature.

  • Entrepreneurial and Results-Driven Mindset: You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are driven to achieve results. Your keen attention to detail will be crucial in ensuring the delivery of a high-quality product and driving our team to excel. You align the goals of your teams towards the company goals.

  • Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and business acumen, with the ability to translate insights into actionable plans.

  • Social and Communicative: Strong communication and leadership skills. You have a proven track record of working with a product department in an agile framework. You know how to balance technical debt vs. features.

  • Flexible mindset: You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the typical start-up challenges. Change happens and things move fast. If you know, you know.

  • Fluency in English: You are fluent in both English, both spoken and written. Proficiency in Dutch is a nice to have.

Why should you join us?

At Bizzy, we are on a mission to help our customers in sales, marketing, recruitment and investments focus on the human side of doing business. Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping businesses discover high-quality, ready-to-buy leads through a unique blend of public and trade registers, dynamic intent data, and AI-powered insights. We are the go-to-source for comprehensive, local B2B data.

Joining Bizzy is contributing to bringing our innovative solutions to the European market. If you're ready to achieve challenging goals and be part of a dynamic team, apply now and help drive Bizzy's success!

We pride ourselves on our company values - United by Growth, Candid Candor, Lead the Way, and Hustle and Unwind - which guide everything we do.

On top of a competitive salary, we offer the following benefits:

đŸ› ïž The right tools to do your job without headaches and drama; đŸ’» Macbook Air đŸ“±iPhone 16 (with subscription)

đŸ„ Healthcare benefits plan (incl Alan daily care)

đŸ„Ș Meal vouchers

⚖ A Flex Income Plan through Payflip

🕛 Flexible working hours and locations, although we love to connect in person at least 3 days per week.

🍏 Fresh fruit in the office (and cookies as well đŸ€«)

🧑‍🎓 Dedicated budget to support your growth and development

🎁 Awesome Bizzy merchandise

đŸș 🎉 đŸ‚ Team drinks and events

Diverse teams build better products - an asterisk you'll want to read

We know for a fact that women, people of color, and minorities in general, are not likely to apply for a job they only feel 70% qualified for. We're here to tell you that you are, in fact, enough, and strongly encourage you to be confident and to submit your application either way. You've got this! We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting amazing candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to meet you!

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