Engineering Director

Engineering Director

Department

Engineering - Video

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Amsterdam

Reporting To

VP, Engineering

Description

The Director of Engineering serves as the Head of Engineering for our Amsterdam office, leading multiple teams in designing and delivering new and enhanced products. This role is heavily focused on strategy, people leadership, and maintaining the strong, empathetic culture that defines our team. You will manage development projects from initial design through testing, while providing a clear vision and decisive technical direction across the department. You will operate as the primary escalation point and unblocker for technical and operational challenges and collaborate closely with a globally distributed workforce of full-time employees and contractors across overlapping time zones.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee software engineering activities in the development, release, and maintenance of full-stack SaaS applications in hosted environments.
• Manage project goals, contribute to product strategy, and provide technical leadership for multiple development teams
• Maintain and nurture a positive, empathetic culture by deeply caring for your people, organizing team-building activities, and keeping a solutions-oriented mindset
• Act as the primary escalation point for the Amsterdam team, rapidly unblocking technical issues and making critical, decisive technical choices.
• Manage team performance proactively, addressing technical gaps, overseeing resource allocation, and implementing necessary corrections to ensure high throughput and optimal quality.
• Effectively collaborate with and lead a globally distributed team of both full-time employees (FTEs) and contractors, ensuring strong alignment across overlapping US and international time zones.
• Recruit, manage, train and mentor your staff to be the best that they can be
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop business and user requirements
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions, ensuring strong alignment across teams in overlapping time zones.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an innovative, fast-paced environment
• At least 5 years in a technical leadership role, and 10+ years developing production SaaS code for mission critical services
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to be highly decisive on technical and architectural decisions.
• Exceptional people management skills with a focus on empathy, adding organizational structure, and fostering a supportive culture.
• Ability to drive a culture of quality, personal accountability, and strong relationships with internal and external colleagues and clients
• Expert in Agile & DevOps principles, and experience with an AI-driven SDLC.
• Preferred experience with large connected devices and distributed systems
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science and/or Engineering

Skills

• Hands-on development of enterprise-level software products
• Hiring and team-building
• CI/CD/DevOps with automated testing
• Incremental design/refactoring
• Story-driven project/program management
• Leading multiple SW development teams
• Enterprise architecture

Why Work for Us?

Brivo is a Great Place to Work-Certified™company and the global leader in cloud-based access control and video surveillance. Following our merger with Eagle Eye Networks, we are building the only platform powerful enough to support the future of AI-driven security.

Why Your Work Matters

Innovation drives our vibe, but purpose drives our mission. You will work on essential systems that protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and property worldwide. At Brivo, your voice is heard, your talent is respected, and your contributions have a global impact.

• The Brivo Experience: We thrive on in-person collaboration and a "one-team" atmosphere. We embrace our international presence, leveraging diverse ideas and backgrounds to improve our culture and our products.
• Total Rewards:
• Diverse team with 20+ nationalities
• 23 paid holidays yearly + Dutch public holidays
• Compensation for travel expenses from your home to the office;
• Company equipment for work use;
• Enrollment in our collective pension plan;
• Company swag and a business casual scale-up work atmosphere;
• Once or twice a year a stunning company day;

Individual compensation packages are based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, training, and market conditions. In addition to cash compensation, Brivonians may be eligible for a benefits and perks package tailored to their work location.