Remote Associate Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

RoomPriceGenie is dedicated to helping hoteliers around the globe achieve optimal pricing. Founded in 2017, we offer an AI‑powered solution that enables hotels to set the right prices in just seconds. Our state‑of‑the‑art algorithm analyzes internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates. Customers span the globe—from the U.S. and Canada to Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the U.K.—and our clients love the results.

We understand that many small hotels face challenges with digitalization, making their operations increasingly complex and often resulting in lost revenue. This is where we come in! We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds to enrich our team and drive innovation.

Your Role

• As an Engineering Manager in the Customer Journey team, you’ll help shape the way we build, learn, and deliver impact to our users.
• You’ll manage a multidisciplinary team of backend and frontend engineers, empowering them to ship high‑quality features that improve user activation, engagement, and retention.
• This is a hands‑on leadership role, ideal for someone with experience managing engineers and eager to continue growing their management craft.
• You’ll keep a technical presence, spending time coding, reviewing, or pairing while driving clarity, focus, and technical excellence across the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a talented team of engineers working across backend, frontend, and data layers.
• Foster a culture of ownership, testing, and quality, ensuring features are robust, scalable, and measurable.
• Drive the delivery of impactful projects, from ideation to production and iteration, in partnership with Product and Design.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to raise the bar and help engineers grow in design thinking, architecture, and cross‑stack collaboration.
• Actively participate in hiring engineers.
• Maintain technical involvement, reviewing code, contributing to architecture discussions, and occasionally coding.
• Improve engineering processes to drive velocity, alignment, and clear communication.
• Collaborate with other engineering managers and the Senior EM to strengthen team structure, knowledge sharing, and engineering culture.
• Champion data‑informed decisions, ensuring the team has the right feedback loops to measure success.

Your Profile

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer, building and maintaining production systems while still going deep technically.
• 1–2 years of experience managing engineers, including one‑on‑ones and leading delivery.
• Experience in a high‑growth or scaling company is a strong plus.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity, and helping teams adapt as the organisation evolves.
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and engineering best practices across backend, frontend, and data contexts.
• Strong product collaboration mindset, enjoying work closely with PMs and Designers to define problems, validate solutions, and measure outcomes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, inspiring trust, clarity, and accountability.
• A servant leader: empathetic, organised, and passionate about helping people do their best work.
• Comfortable balancing technical depth with people leadership and delivery outcomes.
• Fluent in English and based in the European time zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2).

What we offer at RoomPriceGenie

• Remote‑First Model: work flexibly from anywhere, with optional co‑working or office access in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney.
• One Team, One Vision, One Goal: collaborative culture with a 9.3 rating from team members.
• Epic Team Gatherings: annual global crew gatherings and regular office hangouts.
• Growth and Development: lifelong learning with personal and professional development opportunities and up to three extra days off each year.
• 5 Years? 5 Weeks! Earn five weeks of bonus vacation time after five years.
• Birthday Celebrations: take the day off to celebrate your birthday guilt‑free.
• Flexible Hours: help balance work and personal life.
• Wellbeing Matters: access to Headspace and BetterHelp for mental health support.