Engineering Manager | Pricing and Channel Management

ZipRecruiter; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in vacation rentals is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Pricing team. In this role, you'll lead the development of innovative pricing solutions and ensure best engineering practices in a collaborative environment. Join a new team shaping the future of travel tech in Manchester, with exciting benefits including an annual bonus scheme and private healthcare.

Benefits

Annual Bonus Scheme

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Holiday Discounts

Pension contribution scheme

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of full stack engineers in a product-driven environment.
• Background in high-volume, scalable distributed systems.
• Coaching and mentoring experience with focus on team development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Pricing Management platform.
• Lead a cross-functional team building innovative pricing solutions.
• Champion engineering best practices like CI/CD and TDD.

Skills

Technical leadership

Problem-solving

API technologies

Cloud services

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GO

Svelte

Typescript

Node

Job description

Job Description

We are Awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, which brings together some of the continent’s most trusted travel brands, including cottages.com, Hoseasons and NOVASOL.

With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we're proud to offer our guests a choice of over 100,000 properties in our portfolio, in 25 countries across Europe.

Position: Engineering Manager – Pricing & Channel Management

We’re entering an exciting new phase of our tech and product strategy, with a focus on innovation, experimentation, and conversion at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to elevate the web and mobile experience for our guests and owners, driving seamless journeys across all our group companies.

To achieve our goals, we’re looking to make some key hires—are you ready to be part of the transformation and help shape the future of the travel industry?

About the role:

We've replaced outdated legacy systems with three new, data-rich solutions: Pricing Engine, Price Management, and First Time Pricing.

As Engineering Manager for our Pricing team, you’ll head up the full stack team behind our Pricing Management platform. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you’ll work in a fast-paced, delivery-focused culture where small, autonomous teams own what they build—including DevOps and reliability.

You’ll drive engineering best practices, shape innovative pricing products, and create seamless booking experiences for our guests and owners. Expect to experiment, collaborate, and mentor the next of engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and act as the technical authority for the Pricing Management platform
• Lead a cross-functional, full stack team building innovative pricing solutions
• Champion engineering best practices such as Pair & mob programming, CI/CD, TDD, and cloud- architectures
• Support a learning culture through mentoring grads, juniors, and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with engineers across our international tech teams
• Operate what you build—reliability and DevOps is everyone’s job
• Actively contribute to the wider Awaze tech community

What we’re looking for:

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who’s passionate about inspiring those around them. You should be someone who thrives on solving complex problems and knows that the right solution should drive the tech—not the other way around.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, but experience in a mixture of the following is great:

• You are currently working as an Engineering Manager | Tech Lead in a Product/Customer-driven environment, leading a small team (5) of full stack engineers
• Extensive background in high-volume, scalable distributed systems
• Experience with cloud services (ideally AWS), Infra-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation and best practices for scalable infrastructure
• Solid background in API technologies plus knowledge of GO, Svelte, Typescript and Node is preferable
• Ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions, effect change, and align engineering efforts with business goals
• Extensive stakeholder management experience with a focus on working with the wider business and the ability to create alignment across teams
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and growing your team, empowering each of them to fulfil their potential.

What will we offer you?

Not only will you be joining a brand new team, you’ll help shape the way we work and influence the culture of our brand-new Manchester City Centre tech hub. You’ll also receive:

• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Holiday Discounts
• Pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare

Get in touch, we'd love to chat:

If you're excited by the idea of shaping the future of pricing and travel tech, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your profile and let’s chat.