Engineering Manager, Search Engine (all genders)

Job summary

About us Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and Booking.com.

Responsibilities

• You will be stepping into an area where performance and cost-efficiency are critical, and your biggest challenge will be technical and strategic.
• 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.
• Workplace: Berlin & hybrid / EU & Remote
• We are a remote-first company with teams located around the Globe.
• Also, the HQ office is in Berlin, where the team often meets.
• Who you are:
• 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.

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