Senior Engineering Manager at Super Technologies in Netherlands, NL

We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our Storage Systems tribe in the Messaging Squad.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to drive the evolution of our messaging platform built on Kafka. In this role, you'll lead a team that maintains the foundations of our messaging infrastructure, which handles hundreds of millions of messages daily across all aspects of our business. Your leadership will be crucial as we scale our asynchronous message-driven architecture to support Super’s continued growth, collaborating with platform framework teams to build common SDKs and abstractions that streamline usage and monitoring.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers. Cultivate career growth, manage performance, and create a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive and create impact.
• Drive the evolution of our messaging platform. Ensure our Kafka-based infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and optimized to handle hundreds of millions of daily messages.
• Collaborate with platform framework teams. Build common SDKs and abstractions to streamline usage, provide healthy guardrails, and enhance monitoring capabilities.
• Make key technical and architectural decisions. Guide the team in architectural and technical decisioning related to distributed messaging systems.
• Foster operational excellence. Implement and maintain best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Align team objectives with business goals. Ensure your team's work delivers meaningful impact on product reliability and business growth.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum 4 years of engineering management experience, preferably in a data engineering or storage team capacity.
• Strong technical depth in Kafka or similar distributed messaging systems to effectively guide the team in architectural and technical decisioning.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud resource provisioning, and implementing operational excellence practices.
• Understanding of asynchronous message-driven architectures and their application in large-scale systems.
• Familiarity with data engineering and analytics workflows that rely on messaging infrastructure.
• Strong people management skills including expectation management, business value alignment, performance management, and career growth cultivation.
• Excellent communication abilities to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.
• Strategic thinking to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term technical vision and platform evolution.

About Super

We are a global technology group, dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences. With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Greece and Serbia, and a network of offices across Spain, Croatia, Malta, Gibraltar, the Netherlands and the UK, we are a truly international organization. Our purpose at Super has evolved from sports and betting into creating the platform that stretches into the wider world of technology-driven entertainment. With a growing and diverse team of more than 5,000 people, we create immersive, responsible, and personalised experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

Shaping the Future of Play

Everything we do at Super is rooted in doing what is right: for customers, for each other, and for our long-term vision. Our Culture Manifesto is our North Star. It captures our purpose, mission, and the six core beliefs that shape how we think, make decisions, and act every day. Want to explore our culture in more detail? Visit our careers page: http://super.xyz/careers

Super is committed to the highest standards of compliance, safety, and responsibility. As such, we are active members of the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) and the European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA).

At Super, we operate as a high-performing team. We hire and grow talent based on ability and potential, regardless of background and identity because we know diverse perspectives, drive better performance.