Engineering Manager - High-Throughput Search (Remote)

Creandum; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly work

Relocation available

Flexible working

Job summary

Distribusion is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search team and shape the API platform used by major retailers worldwide. You will balance hands-on engineering with people leadership to deliver high-throughput, low-latency systems.

In a remote-first company with teams globally and an HQ in Berlin, you will architect for 10x growth, optimize costs, and mentor senior engineers to deliver robust, scalable services while staying close to code and design.

Qualifications

• Experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering teams.
• Engineer at heart; highly technical, hands-on, and capable of guiding deeply complex system architectures.
• Proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Strong business and resource-optimization mindset, able to make strategic architectural decisions impacting profitability and infrastructure costs.
• Strong programming experience in any modern backend language; excited to lead new development in Rust or Go; adaptable.
• Extreme ownership over domain health and comfortable operating where challenges outweigh syntax issues.
• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, and support an experienced team of engineers, providing coaching, alignment, and performance management.
• Take ownership of domain health, ensuring high-throughput, low-latency systems are robust, scalable, and meeting performance goals.
• Drive profitability and cost optimisation, tackling architectural challenges to scale our system 10x.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to the code, system design, and architecture in a highly complex problem space.

Skills

People leadership

Backend engineering

Rust or Go

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

English fluency

Job description

Distribusion is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search team and shape the API platform used by major retailers worldwide. You will balance hands-on engineering with people leadership to deliver high-throughput, low-latency systems.

In a remote-first company with teams globally and an HQ in Berlin, you will architect for 10x growth, optimize costs, and mentor senior engineers to deliver robust, scalable services while staying close to code and design.