Lead Engineer

Product-minded · hands-on · AI-first Lead Engineer rb2 · Purmerend (hybrid) · €6,000-€6,750 per month + bonus Build things that last. And things that ship in three weeks. At rb2, you'll lead the engineering behind two kinds of work: scalable commerce platforms that large B2B brands rely on for years, and fast innovation sprints where you validate a bold idea and get a working prototype in front of users. You'll own the architecture, set the technical direction, and stay close enough to the code to shape it yourself. We're building an AI-first engineering practice. Our teams already run on approximately 75% AI-assisted development, and our management leads from the front. You'll help define how a modern engineering team designs, ships, and operates when AI is a core part of the workflow, not an afterthought. What you'll do - Lead a small international engineering team across Purmerend, Lisbon, and Xiamen, setting direction, growing people, and keeping delivery sharp across time zones - Keep writing code and stay close to the codebase, so the architectural calls you make are grounded in the work - Turn ambiguous business goals into technical plans and push back with lower-effort alternatives when they deliver similar impact - Ship validated prototypes in short innovation sprints and own the long-term architecture of platforms brands depend on - Drive our adoption of AI-assisted development through tooling, patterns, and team standards What we're looking for - Strong, hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript - Solid cloud experience, including serverless platforms - Proven experience leading engineering teams: you have grown engineers and owned delivery, not just managed tickets - A product mindset: you think in user impact and business value, validate with data, and care about the why, not only the how - Comfort with, or genuine curiosity about, AI-assisted development such as Copilot, Cursor, LLM integration, and where the ...