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Location

Berlin, DE

Job Term

Full-Time

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We are looking for an Engineering Manager to guide people, drive technical decisions and help develop our marketplace or marketing area and related customer channels.  

You will assume line management of existing mobile, frontend and backend engineers owning:

  • The new Traveler Frontend, built in Vue / Node.Js (Javascript/TypeScript)
  • Some core platform components like Experimentation and Authentication (Java)
  • Core architectural improvements to the iOS / Android apps (Java/Kotlin/ObjectiveC/Swift)

The purpose of the team is to improve common components/architecture patterns and to guide all other marketplace teams on how to best leverage the platform to deliver value to our customers faster. 

Responsibilities

Here you will:

  • Be responsible for defining the team’s strategy and roadmap to address organizational technical needs and pain points around performance and scalability
  • Shape and ship high-impact solutions that ultimately contributes to increasing company metrics

This role reports to a Senior Engineering Manager and is primarily measured according to the performance of their team. We divide their responsibility into the following areas:

  • Business Impact - Clear business metrics and working towards ambitious goals
  • Team Health - Team members are engaged and complement each other in achieving common goals autonomously
  • Productivity - MVP mindset, continuous improvements of team ways of working
  • Systems Health - Defining and delivering towards clear metrics and SLOs
  • Stakeholder Happiness - Managing dependencies and expectations, building trust with all stakeholders and delivering on commitments

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience of team management
  • Direct people management in technical teams
  • Demonstrated ownership over project management in a previous role, including responsibilities for strategy, KPI setup, goal-setting and roadmap
  • Experience with technical excellence (operations, on-call, quality)
  • Passionate about business results and people not just technical excellence
  • Software development experience comparable to Senior Engineer with Java / PHP / Node.JS stack
  • Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

  • Experience developing projects in a microservice architecture
  • Prior experience working in the e-commerce or travel space
  • Prior experience in scale-up environments
  • Experience with various technologies (e.g. Node, Java or PHP)
  • Experience with Native Apps development
  • Experience with system Observability and Monitoring

What we offer

  • Work on a product that helps create memorable travel experiences
  • Relocation assistance with a great team to help you with your move to Berlin
  • Virtual stock options - be part of our success story
  • Discounted monthly passes for public transportation
  • Private Pension Scheme
  • Annual external training budget - be constantly learning
  • GetYourGuide gift cards and extra discount
Apply now