Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager About Corilus Corilus is the leading provider of digital solutions for healthcare professionals in Belgium, with over 30 years of experience building software for doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and care coordinators. Today, we serve more than 70,000 healthcare professionals. We are now at an inflection point. Following the acquisition of Sofia Dévelopement in France and backed by PSG and Rivean Capital, we are consolidating our portfolio into a unified, AI-native platform that will redefine clinical software across Belgium and France. We are looking for builders — people who see the gap between what healthcare software is today and what it could be, and who want to close it. About the Role As an Engineering Manager, you lead one engineering squad within a product line, typically between four and twelve engineers. This is the first formal people leadership role in our engineering organization. You are accountable for team performance, delivery quality, and the operational health of the systems your team owns. You balance execution with people leadership, ensuring alignment with product priorities while building a healthy, engaged, and sustainable engineering environment. You act as the primary interface between your team and product stakeholders, creating clarity, focus, and accountability. Challenge • Lead and develop a high performing engineering team through regular one on ones, feedback cycles, and growth plans. • Create a psychologically safe, inclusive, and accountable team culture. • Ensure predictable, high quality delivery aligned with product roadmap priorities. • Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery rituals. • Proactively identify and mitigate delivery and operational risks. • Own team level metrics such as throughput, cycle time, defect rate, and system stability. • Ensure production health, reliability, and SLA adherence for your team’s systems. • Partner closely with the Tech Lead to balance feature delivery and technical sustainability. • Support incident management and drive meaningful postmortem improvements. • Improve team processes continuously and align with other Engineering Managers on standards and best practices. • Provide clear visibility into progress, risks, and trade offs to stakeholders. Profile • Strong background as a software engineer with solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle • Prior experience coaching and developing engineers at different seniority levels • Comfortable engaging in architectural discussions and understanding technical trade offs • Experience working in agile delivery environments • Able to balance roadmap ambition with realistic team capacity • Skilled in delivering clear, constructive feedback and managing performance • Strong communicator who can translate engineering constraints into business language • Demonstrated ability to foster ownership, accountability, and focus within a team • Calm and structured in handling conflict, performance challenges, and operational incidents • Motivated to grow as a people leader while maintaining technical credibility • Fluent in English as the main working language, knowledge of Dutch and or French is a plus What we offer • A fascinating and challenging role within an experienced, highly innovative, and dynamic team and company • Extensive learning opportunities as we continuously improve our processes and strengthen our business partnering through in depth business analysis • An attractive salary package aligned with your experience and responsibilities • A broad range of extra legal benefits including a company car with fuel card, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, and additional ambulatory care insurance • A solid and comprehensive training plan complemented by our Corilus Employee College, supporting continuous professional development Afdeling Engineering Locations Corilus Vilvoorde Remote status Hybrid About Corilus Corilus is a leading provider of digital solutions for healthcare professionals, with more than 30 years of experience delivering innovative software that helps doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other care providers work more efficiently so they can focus on patient care, serving over 70,000 healthcare providers across Europe.