Senior Engineering Manager, K4B

This role will require you to work from our Berlin office at least 3 days per week.

• Own end-to-end delivery for one or more agile engineering teams, ensuring the team consistently ships high-quality software aligned with product and business objectives, measured against clear KPIs.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for your team's domain—collaborating with product managers and peer engineering leaders to translate business goals into a prioritized, executable plan.
• Design and enforce engineering best practices across the team's codebase, including coding standards, testing strategies, observability, and clear Definition of Done criteria, raising the overall quality bar.
• Lead hiring and performance management for a team of software engineers, owning the full employee lifecycle from sourcing and onboarding through career development, performance reviews, and promotions.
• Coach and develop engineers at all levels—including senior engineers and emerging technical leads—through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, and deliberate career conversations that build the next generation of leaders.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product managers, designers, and peer engineering managers to plan and deliver complex, multi‑team initiatives, ensuring clear alignment on scope, dependencies, and timelines.
• Identify and remove delivery risks proactively—whether organizational, technical, or process‑related—and drive improvements without waiting to be directed, keeping the team operating at high velocity.
• Champion a culture of quality and continuous improvement, embedding practices such as blameless post‑mortems, structured incident response, and iterative process refinement into the team's day‑to‑day rhythm.
• Influence technical architecture across the team's domain by preparing and participating in design reviews, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring systems are built for scalability, reliability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Help build and shape the engineering presence, contributing to local talent acquisition, onboarding, and team culture as part of the organization's strategic expansion of its engineering hub.

• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams within the travel industry focused on supplier integrations (such as flights, hotels, or trains using Direct APIs, GDS, NDC, NDC[X]) or managing teams executing large‑scale third‑party content integrations.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in an engineering leadership or management role directly managing software engineers, and a proven track record of leading productive teams and shipping high‑quality software in a fast‑paced environment.
• A proven track record of ownership and innovation within a data‑driven, results‑oriented environment, along with the ability to rapidly learn and master new business domains.
• A track record of steering organizational transformation, maximizing gains from agile methodologies, and fostering process optimization and innovation.
• Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, and backend service architecture, with the ability to credibly guide architectural decisions and participate meaningfully in design reviews.
• Demonstrated experience owning the full people management lifecycle—hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotions— with a genuine commitment to developing engineering talent.
• Experience coaching and developing engineers at multiple levels, including senior engineers and emerging technical leads, through structured feedback, regular 1:1s, and deliberate career conversations.
• Solid understanding of agile delivery methodologies and the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines.