Senior Engineering Manager

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Superbet is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Storage Systems tribe’s Messaging Squad in the Netherlands, guiding a Kafka-based platform that handles hundreds of millions of messages daily as the business scales. You’ll grow a high performing team, drive architectural decisions for distributed messaging, and partner with platform framework teams to deliver SDKs, guardrails and enhanced monitoring, while ensuring operational excellence and measurable business impact. Key requirements include 4+ years in engineering management, strong Kafka or similar systems depth, Kubernetes and cloud provisioning experience, and superb stakeholder communication. To apply, tailor your CV to show leadership outcomes, concrete scaling successes, incident response improvements, and a clear long term platform vision with metrics.

It’s an exciting time to join us! We’re entering new markets, developing new technologies, and moving step by step towards our goal of exciting the world. As our business grows, the number of exciting people initiatives grows with it, and we’re looking for a new colleague to partner with our team to bring these to life.

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 us

We are a global technology company dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences.

With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, our company has evolved from a leading sports betting and gaming operator into a diversified product and tech organization, gathering more than 5,000 dedicated people across our teams.

Shaping the future of play

At Super, we are creating a unique entertainment ecosystem engaging millions of customers worldwide. Our product and technology teams in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Zagreb (Croatia), London (UK), and Bucharest (Romania) are building the playstack that will champion the future of play.

Our ambitious growth strategy focuses on expanding across Europe and Latin America while delivering immersive customer experiences and creating lasting value for our customers, partners, and communities.

Global recognition and standards

The company’s long-term strategy is supported by world-class investors. In 2019, Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, made a strategic minority investment of €175 million. In 2025, we strengthened our financial position through a €1.3 billion refinancing agreement, reinforcing our partnership with Blackstone and enabling accelerated global expansion.

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).