Engineering Manager, Search Engine

Lead the Search team, a highly skilled, senior engineering team operating in a highly complex, high-throughput, and low-latency domain. You will contribute to the product and technical domains of excellence in the main API product that enables large retailers to seamlessly purchase tickets from bus and rail carriers worldwide.

What you'll do

• Manage, lead, and support an experienced team of engineers, providing coaching, alignment, and performance management.
• Take ownership of domain health, ensuring our high-throughput, low-latency systems are robust, scalable, and consistently meeting performance goals.
• Drive profitability and cost optimisation, specifically tackling architectural challenges to scale our system 10x without allowing our current infrastructure and storage costs to multiply exponentially.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to the code, system design, and architecture in a highly complex problem space.

What you'll need

• You are an experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering teams.
• You think of yourself as an Engineer at heart; you are highly technical, hands-on, and capable of understanding and guiding deeply complex system architectures.
• You have a proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• You bring a strong business and resource-optimization mindset, with the ability to make strategic architectural decisions that directly impact company profitability and infrastructure costs.
• You have strong programming experience in any modern backend language and are excited to lead new development in Rust or Go.
• You show extreme ownership over your domain's health and are comfortable operating in an environment where technical challenges far outweigh basic language-level syntax issues.
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.

What they offer

• Make a global impact helping millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.
• Flexible and remote-friendly working options with hybrid setup in Berlin.
• Work with industry leaders including Booking.com, Google Maps, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
• Modern, efficient technology stack with continuous evolution.
• International team environment with opportunity to grow.