Engineering Manager

About Us

At , data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make.

Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

As an Engineering Manager within one of our Marketplace teams, you are accountable for building and leading a high-performing engineering team responsible for maintaining and evolving mission-critical systems. You create the environment in which engineers design, build and operate reliable, scalable platform components, ensuring strong and rational technical decision-making, software delivery and operational excellence, and sustainable execution.

• Conversational Platform Team
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  Enable seamless and secure conversational experience for travelers allowing them to comfortably communicate across different modalities (text, voice, video). A unified conversational ecosystem for travellers that can handle multiple intents across all stages of the traveller journey, processing and storing millions of conversations per day and intelligently routing messages to the right human or AI actors.
• Order Platform Team
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  The Order Platform is the home for all reservation data in  Every time a customer clicks on the book button, we become the source of truth of the reservation that was made. We orchestrate its creation and any other subsequent changes, store the data and make it available via multiple access patterns.

• Directly manage engineers, including performance, talent and compensation aspects.
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating.
• Cultivate engineering talent in the team.
• Foster a great culture that innovates, works together as a team, partners with other  teams/roles and celebrates unified success.
• Respect the  values and use them as a guide to the way we work.

• Guide engineers in making sound technical decisions, considering high traffic, versatile consumer needs, cost efficiency and other complexity factors.
• Guide engineers in architecting the domain defining the service granularity, boundaries, communication patterns, considering auth, privacy, compliance and security.
• Set up and continuously improve engineering delivery, quality and SDLC practices within the team.
• Deliver the wider engineering strategic objectives by tailoring them to the team’s scope.
• Embed and continuously improve the agile ways of working within the team.
• Get deep into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team.
• Adhere to existing and develop new principles for architecture, quality, service health and non-functional requirements.
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department.
• Drive a culture of ownership, technical and operational excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations.
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed.

• Define, prioritise and deliver the roadmap ensuring high organisational and delivery performance.
• Build new product capabilities, processes and operational plans.
• Drive stakeholder alignment required for successful technical strategy realisation and execution.
• Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features.
• Drive innovation in the team.
• Own the architecture principles and decision records across the team.

• 10+ years of relevant experience in software development, building and scaling high-traffic, distributed systems.
• E-commerce, marketplace, messaging or other suitable platform experience strongly preferred.
• 2+ years of experience managing teams and performance.
• Expertise in Java and JVM-based microservices is preferred; experience with Golang, Scala or Python is a plus.
• Proven experience modernising legacy systems and…