Software Engineering Manager - Scale-up - Namur area

About the Opportunity and the Company:

Our client is an emerging scale-up operating in the healthcare sector. The company has been established for around ten years and operates across Europe and the US. To support its continued growth, we are looking for a Software Egineering Manager to join its IT team.

You will join at a moment where the engineering organization is scaling and needs a second Engineering Manager. You will lead 6 to 10 engineers across 2 to 3 product squads, reporting directly to the CTO. You own your squads: the people, the staffing, and the delivery, and you share product outcomes with your Product counterparts. Each squad has a Tech Lead who owns technical feasibility and task breakdown, supported by a transverse Principal Engineer. You are a technical manager: you stay close enough to the code and the designs to ask the right questions, push great engineering, and help your squads keep raising the bar.

What you will do :

• Lead and develop a team of 6 to 10 engineers across 2 to 3 product squads. Run 1:1s, give honest feedback, own performance and promotion decisions, and build development plans against our engineering ladder
• Own delivery for your squads: what gets committed, who works on what, and whether it lands. Challenge scope and dates with Product, with an explicit mandate to refuse commitments the team cannot sustainably meet
• Protect long-term velocity: own the capacity allocation for tech health and platform quality
• Hire: partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close engineers. Run technical interviews yourself and hold the hiring bar.
• Raise the technical bar: stay close to the code and designs where it matters most (high-risk changes, new patterns, design docs, review quality), using AI tooling to navigate the codebase efficiently, and help your squads turn good engineering into great engineering.
• Work closely with Tech Leads and the Principal Engineer, who own technical feasibility and task breakdown in their scope. Challenge them on ambition and approach, unblock them, and escalate structural risks early
• Champion modern, AI-augmented engineering practices and continuous improvement of how the team works
• Stay deeply immersed in product and business context: direct stakeholder relationships, presence in squad rituals, and manage cross-squad dependencies

What you will bring :

• At least 3 years managing software engineers in a dedicated management role
• 5+ years as a software engineer before moving into management, including senior-level ownership of production systems
• Track record of shipping and operating production web products, with enough technical depth to challenge designs and estimates credibly (our stack: React, Django, GCP)
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design in an empowered-squad model
• Hands-on with AI-assisted engineering tooling, and opinionated about where it helps and where it does not
• Fluent English (working language); French is a plus
• Genuine interest in sleep, health, and helping people better understand and improve their well-being
• Must be based in Belgium, as the role requires on-site presence 2 days a week

What We Offer :

• An attractive salary package with a wide range of fringe benefits (company car or mobility budget, meal vouchers, insurance, etc.).
• A friendly and welcoming working environment within a scale-up culture
• Accessible and supportive management that values employees' input
• Exciting projects that have a real impact on people's lives and well-being
• An inclusive workplace: our client welcomes people from all backgrounds and is committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and valued.
• Nice offices in the Namur area.
• The possibility to work from home up to 3 days a week.
• A 40-hour working week, with 12 additional compensatory leave days (RTT) on top of the annual holiday entitlement.