Engineering Manager (Java or Typescript) - Guest Experience (all genders)

Overview

Holidu is one of the world’s fastest-growing vacation rental technology companies. Our mission is to make booking and hosting holiday homes free of doubt and full of joy, by helping hosts generate more bookings with less work and helping guests find a holiday home they truly enjoy. Our team of 700 colleagues from 60+ nations shares a passion for tech, an ambition for constant improvement, and a relentless drive to bring the best experience to more than 40k vacation rental hosts and 4 million annual guests.

Your future team

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

• You will be part of the Discovery team in the Guest Experience department. The team is responsible for designing and maintaining the list page of our website, ensuring users can easily find the best vacation rental from our search results.
• 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 frontend & backend engineers (direct reports), a project manager and a QA engineer.
• You’ll work closely with the Ranking, Conqueror, and Marketing teams, which manage the machine learning models for property ranking on the list page, booking systems, and Holidu\'s marketing efforts. Together, you’ll ensure a seamless and cohesive user experience.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend : Typescript and NodeJS processes in Kubernetes. We use ReactJS, Zustand and TailwindCSS on the client and Express on the server.
• 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.

Your role in this journey

• Lead a high-performing cross-functional team, focusing on product innovation, infrastructure reliability, delivery speed, quality, engineering culture, and team growth.
• 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 (OKRs) 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.
• The role includes dedicating approximately 40-50% of the time as an individual contributor focused on feature implementation.

Your backpack is filled with

• A bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and implementing backend services and/or frontend applications.
• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g., setting goals and priorities, architecture design, task planning and code reviews).
• Experience as a people manager with the ability to build an excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning and support for each other.
• Love for building world-class products with a great user experience.

Our adventure includes

• Impact : Shape the future of travel with products used by millions of guests and thousands of hosts. At Holidu ideas become products, data drives decisions, and iteration fuels fast learning. Your work matters—and you\'ll see the impact.
• Learning : Grow professionally in a culture that thrives on curiosity and feedback. You\’ll learn from outstanding colleagues, collaborate across disciplines, and benefit from mentorship, and personal learning budgets—with a strong focus on AI.
• Great People : Join a team of smart, motivated and international colleagues who challenge and support each other. We celebrate wins and keep our culture fun, ambitious and human. Our customers are guests and hosts—people we can all relate to—making work meaningful and energizing.
• Technology : Work in a modern tech environment. You\’ll experience the pace of a scale-up combined with the stability of a proven business model, enabling you to build, test, and improve continuously.
• Flexibility : Work a hybrid setup with 50% in-office time for collaboration, and spend up to 8 weeks a year from other inspiring locations. You\’ll stay connected through regular events and meet-ups across our almost 30 offices.
• Competitive Package : € + VSOPs based on relevant experience and seniority — learn more about our approach to compensation here.
• Perks on Top : Of course, we also offer travel benefits, gym discounts, and other perks to keep you energized—but what truly sets us apart is the chance to grow in a dynamic industry, alongside amazing people, while having fun along the way.

Need a sneak peek? Check out the adventure that awaits you on Instagram lifeatholidu and dive straight into the world of Tech at Holidu for more insight!

Want to travel with us?

Apply online on our career page! Your first travel contact will be Adam from HR. We are committed to diversity in all aspects of our business. We encourage applications from all genders, all corners of the world and all individual backgrounds. You are welcome to submit your application without a photo and without stating your gender, date of birth, marital status, nationality or disability status (if applicable). If you require any special assistance when arranging interviews, office visits or the recruitment process in general, please contact the relevant HR person responsible for this job and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.