Engineering Manager (Java or Typescript) - Guest Experience (all genders)

Join our Guest Experience department as an Engineering Manager, where you’ll lead a dynamic team focused on enhancing the search experience of our users. 

• You will be part of the Discovery team in the Guest Experience department. The team is responsible for designing and maintaining the list page of our website, ensuring users can easily find the best vacation rental from our search results.

• Your contributions will help create a seamless and joyful journey for travellers, which will result in increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

• Your team will consist of frontend & backend engineers (direct reports), a project manager and a QA engineer.

• You’ll work closely with the Ranking, Conqueror, and Marketing teams, which manage the machine learning models for property ranking on the list page, booking systems, and Holidu's marketing efforts. Together, you’ll ensure a seamless and cohesive user experience.

• Frontend: Typescript and NodeJS processes in Kubernetes.We use ReactJS, Zustand and TailwindCSS on the client and Express on the server.

• Backend: Java 17/21, Kotlin (Spring Boot).

• Infrastructure: Microservices architecture deployed on AWS Kubernetes (EKS).

• Data Management: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch 7, Redshift (part of a data lake structure).

• DevOps Tools: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Terraform.

• Monitoring & Analytics: ELK, Grafana, Looker, Opsgenie, and in-house solutions.

• Lead a high-performing cross-functional team, focusing on product innovation, infrastructure reliability, delivery speed, quality, engineering culture, and team growth.

• Ensure your team delivers applications that are highly scalable, highly available, and capable of handling high traffic of up to 1 million unique users per day.

• Support team growth through regular feedback, mentorship, and by recruiting exceptional engineers.

• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to define the team's goals (OKR’s) and roadmap.

• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.

• Lead strategic team-driven projects, identify opportunities, define and uphold quality standards.

• Foster a great team culture aligned with the company values, ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.

• Take full responsibility for delivering impactful features to millions of users annually.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience building and implementing backend services and/or frontend applications.

• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g., setting goals and priorities, architecture design, task planning and code reviews).

• Experience as a people manager with the ability to build an excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning and support for each other.

• Love for building world-class products with a great user experience.

• Impact: Make a difference for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
• Growth: Take responsibility from day one and develop through regular feedback, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
• Personal Development: Use your learning budget and 2 extra study days for conferences, books, courses, and more.
• Community: Engage with international, diverse, yet like-minded colleagues through regular events and 2 office days per week with your team.
• Flexibility: Benefit from our hybrid work policy and the chance to work from other local offices for up to 8 weeks a year.
• Fitness: Get a premium gym membership at a discounted rate.
• Travel: Enjoy 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria and the possibility to take up to 10 unpaid vacation days with special discounts on our Holidu Homes properties.