Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager (Hands-On)

Location: Portland, OR (hybrid) or Remote

At Vacatia, we’re transforming how families and travelers vacation and how great technology supports that mission. As a leading hospitality and resort management company, we blend personalized guest service with scalable digital platforms.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager (Hands-On) to lead a small team (up to 10 engineers) while contributing directly as a senior developer. This is a “player/coach” role that is perfect for someone who wants to write code, mentor engineers, and drive high‑quality delivery.

• Engineering Leadership at Scale:
  Guide agile teams building complex products that support advanced search, multi‑currency reservations, billing, inventory, and more.
• Balance Leadership & Coding – Spend ~30–50% of your time coding and implementing new features.
• Impact Across Teams:
  Collaborate with product, design, Dev Ops, and security to deliver scalable, reliable technology that drives business outcomes.
• Culture of Excellence – Shape engineering best practices, foster innovation and high‑velocity delivery without compromising stability, and encourage smart use of Gen AI.
• Mentorship & Growth – Develop a talented engineering team while growing your own leadership skills.

• Lead day‑to‑day operations of engineering squads, ensuring delivery aligns with business priorities and timelines.
• Contribute production code, guide system architecture and ensure engineering best practices across codebases and deployments.
• Collaborate with product and design leaders to define scope, roadmap, and feature prioritization.
• Drive execution across cycles, backlogs, and releases using tools like Linear and Monday.
• Innovate through the use of Gen AI in the development process to increase productivity and speed.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder updates to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Coach and mentor software engineers, fostering growth in technical depth, product thinking, and delivery habits.
• Build a team culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Champion performance, reliability, and scalability in application design and infrastructure.
• Partner with QA, Dev Ops, and security to integrate testing, monitoring, and compliance into development workflows.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of software development experience, with 2+ years in a leadership, delivery, or engineering management role.
• Proven ability to lead agile teams, deliver complex projects in fast‑paced environments, and balance IC work with managing agile teams.
• Strong coding skills in PHP (Symfony/Laravel), MySQL/Postgres, React/Next.js, Type Script.
• Strong understanding of full‑stack development, CI/CD practices, and cloud‑based architectures (AWS preferred).
• Excellent project management skills with experience driving technical roadmaps to completion.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder alignment, and people leadership abilities.
• Bonus:
  Experience in hospitality, travel, eCommerce, or platform‑based SaaS environments.

If you want to code and lead at the same time, owning both technical direction and team culture, then this role is for you. You’ll help scale a modern hospitality platform while mentoring a growing team in a collaborative, impact‑driven environment.

Apply today and help Vacatia shape the future of vacations through high‑performance technology delivery.