Engineering manager

BCD Travel; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical insurance

Career growth opportunities

Remote work flexibility

Access to conferences and training

Job summary

BCD Travel seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and mentor multiple software teams in a remote setup spanning Europe and US East Coast time zones.

You will drive architecture-aligned initiatives, oversee planning and delivery of key tech programs, and partner with Product Managers to prioritize work across the department.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Engineering Manager or similar leadership roles.
• Strong software engineering background with system architecture understanding.
• Ability to manage multiple teams or projects simultaneously.
• Hands-on with logging, monitoring, QA and deployment processes.
• Mentoring, team-building and performance management experience.
• Fluent English (Upper-Intermediate/Advanced).
• Willingness to work across Europe or US East Coast time zones.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor Team Leads and foster a high-performing culture.
• Identify opportunities to improve departmental effectiveness.
• Maintain deep understanding of teams' systems within product/architecture.
• Drive professional growth initiatives across the department.
• Partner with Product Managers to focus on top priorities.
• Align plans with short- and long-term product strategies.
• Oversee planning, estimation, and timely delivery of initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and escalate issues when needed.
• Serve as a communication bridge between teams, stakeholders, and leadership.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Strategic planning

Mentoring

Communication

English proficiency

Cross-team collaboration

Architectural understanding

Tools

Python

Clojure

Django

AWS

Docker

React

Job description

What you will be doing:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Team Leads to coach and mentor them.
• Fostering a culture of high performance across all teams and proactively identifying opportunities to improve departmental effectiveness.
• Maintaining a deep understanding of your teams' systems and how they fit into the broader product and architectural ecosystem.
• Driving professional growth initiatives across your department.
• Partnering with Product Managers to ensure teams are building the right things and focusing on top priorities.
• Understanding short- and long-term product strategies and adjusting plans accordingly.
• Overseeing planning, estimation, and timely delivery of key technical initiatives.
• Collaborating with Upper Leadership and other Engineering Managers to align efforts and escalating issues when needed.
• Acting as a communication bridge between teams, stakeholders, and leadership.

You certainly:

• Have 5+ years of proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role in a technical environment, on top of the previous engineering background.
• Possess a strong background in software engineering with the ability to understand system architecture.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple teams or projects simultaneously.
• Are hands-on with logging, monitoring, QA, and deployment processes.
• Have deep experience in mentoring, team-building, and performance management.
• Communicate fluently in English (Upper-Intermediate/Advanced level).
• Can be located anywhere in Europe or the US East Coast timezone.

You probably:

• Have prior experience in the business travel domain.
• Have led cross-functional distributed teams across multiple regions.
• Are comfortable balancing strategic goals with operational excellence.

Who we are:

We are a tech team of adventurous travellers, once a part of Y Combinator alumni - GetGoing Inc , founded in 2012 by Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley graduates. We raised ~$10M in venture capital from Silicon Valley and, in 2016, joined BCD Travel (), a global corporate travel management company with annual sales of $25 billion, to bring our unique hotel booking technology into BCD's products.

What we do:

We develop a B2B booking platform for business trips , which helps users book hotels, flights, and cars. It provides both business travellers and their travel agents with detailed itineraries and the best booking options. Every day, thousands of business travellers across the world use our software built on modern technology.

We use:

• Frontend: ES6, React/Redux.
• Backend: Python 3 and Clojure, plus Django, DRF, Celery, Gevent, aiohttp, Airflow.
• Databases & infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Ansible, StackStorm, Splunk, Docker.
• Everything runs on AWS.

What we offer:

• A results-oriented startup mindset with a stable business model backed by a billion-dollar global travel company.
• Competitive compensation and medical insurance.
• Conferences, workshops, and certifications refund.
• A friendly, professional, and high-skilled team working with the newest technologies.
• Flexible hours and the ability to choose between full-time remote, partly remote, or office work.
• A great office location in the very center of Kyiv near metro stations Zoloti Vorota / Teatralna / Khreschatyk (we have an extra "coffee" kitchen for coffee geeks, a game zone with a kicker, a bomb shelter in the building, and 2 independent electricity lines to make the workday more stable).
• 25 working days of vacation + 6 covered sick days.
• A chance to help craft our tools, processes, and culture.
• Opportunities for career growth.

Employment type:

Full-Time b2b contract

Location:

Remote (Europe / US East Coast timezones)