Engineering Manager Backend - Partner Homes (all genders)

Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide. With more than $100M in funding to date and an international team of travel and technology enthusiasts, our mission is to finally make the search and booking of holiday rentals easy. With our search engine for holiday rentals Holidu we help travellers book the ideal accommodation for the lowest price, and through our software-and-service solution Bookiply we also support holiday rental owners in multiplying their bookings with less work. Do you want to have an impact on millions of travellers worldwide? Then pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for takeoff!

Your future team

You will be part of the Partner Homes Experience Department and Engineering Manager for the Connectivity Team. Together with your team, you will own the platform which enables partners and integrators to ingest and manage all of our 6+ million apartments. You will be responsible for our feature development, bringing our platform architecture to the next level allowing it to scale.

Our Tech Stack

• We are writing our applications and microservices in Java, with Spring Boot, running on Kubernetes.

• Data storage with Elasticsearch 7, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Redis.

• Streaming and queuing systems like Kafka and ActiveMQ.

• Heavy usage of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git.

• Monitoring with ELK, Grafana.

• Internally developed process monitoring based on AWS Firehose, Athena and Looker.

Your role in this journey

• As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the functional and disciplinary leadership of a cross-functional team of 7 engineers. Together with your team, you will implement innovative technical solutions across our systems used by partners and internal stakeholders (Guest Experience, Customer Happiness, Business Development).

• Work closely with your engineers to develop high-quality solutions in cross-functional projects. This includes both leading the implementation of new features to support our growth, as well as ensuring all of the existing processes work correctly and efficiently.

• Tackle team tasks by dedicating a portion of your time to active coding.

• Ensure our applications are stable and highly scalable, able to support the high growth trajectory of the company.

• Focus on the growth of your team by offering continuous constructive feedback, supporting and encouraging them on their growth path, and recruiting new engineers.

• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to understand the business context and define the team's goals and roadmap.

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

• Foster a culture of ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.

Your backpack is filled with

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

• Proven track record as a successful software engineer building backend and/or frontend applications.

• Experience with Java/Kotlin/Spring. Additional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript/React is a plus.

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

• Strong background in system architecture and designing microservice landscapes

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

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Able to deal with ambiguity and clarity through communication.

• Strong product thinking and a history of close collaboration with product management within the organization.

Our adventure includes

• 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.

Need a sneak peek?
Check out the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholiduand dive straight into the world ofTech at Holidu for more insight!

Want to travel with us?

Apply online on our career page! Your first travel contact will be Lucia from HR.

We are committed to diversity in all aspects of our business. We encourage applications from all genders, all corners of the world and all individual backgrounds. You are welcome to submit your application without a photo and without stating your gender, date of birth, marital status, nationality or disability status (if applicable).If you require any special assistance when arranging interviews, office visits or the recruitment process in general, please contact the relevant HR person responsible for this job and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.