Engineering Manager (Java) - Guest Experience (f/m/d)

Join our Guest Experience department as an Engineering Manager, where you’ll lead a dynamic team focused on enhancing our search engine.

• Your team’s mission is to improve our search-engine to provide the best offers to users through a machine-learning-based ranking system, ultimately improving the user experience.
• Your contributions will help create a seamless and joyful journey for travellers, which will result in increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction.
• Your team will consist of backend engineers (direct reports), a project manager, data scientists, and a QA engineer.
• You’ll collaborate closely with the Discovery and Conqueror teams, which handle the list page and booking systems, ensuring a cohesive user experience.

• Backend: Java 17/21, Kotlin (Spring Boot).
• Infrastructure: Microservices architecture deployed on AWS Kubernetes (EKS).
• Data Management: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch 7, Redshift (part of a data lake structure).
• DevOps Tools: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Terraform.
• Monitoring & Analytics: ELK, Grafana, Looker, Opsgenie, and in-house solutions.

• Lead a high-performing cross-functional team, focusing on product innovation, infrastructure reliability, delivery speed, quality, engineering culture, and team growth.
• Collaborate with your team to implement machine learning models into our systems.
• Ensure your team delivers applications that are highly scalable, highly available, and capable of handling high traffic of up to 1 million unique users per day.
• Support team growth through regular feedback, mentorship, and by recruiting exceptional engineers.
• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to define the team's goals (OKR’s) and roadmap.
• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.
• Lead strategic team-driven projects, identify opportunities, define and uphold quality standards.
• Foster a great team culture aligned with the company values, ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.
• Take full responsibility for delivering impactful features to millions of users annually.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience developing and implementing backend services.
• Good hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Redshift, EC2, etc.) and modern cloud-based data solutions.
• Operate at a senior level as a backend developer.
• Strong technical leadership skills, including architecture design, task planning, and code reviews.
• Prior experience as a people manager with a passion for building a collaborative and supportive team culture.
• A commitment to creating exceptional products with outstanding user experiences.
• Elasticsearch experience is a plus.

• 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.

Munich, Germany