[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Lighthouse

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager , you will lead an engineering team that builds and operates systems at scale within our platform. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will see your team's work directly translate into real-world applications that impact businesses worldwide. The role requires you to combine strong technical experience with operational and people management excellence.

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and long-term career growth.
• Be the technical guide the team can lean on for growing their technical careers and for collaborating on their technical work, while at the same time being strong with people, organization, structure, planning and driving delivery.
• Help with the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, improvements and scaling of the systems your team owns.
• Be at the forefront of our AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our platform.
• Build AI features for our customers and champion an AI-first development culture within the engineering team.
• Identify, estimate, plan and deliver continuous improvements with the team in system quality, stability, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with product, other engineering teams, support and business teams.

Qualifications

• Experienced people leader with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineers.
• Experience architecting, designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining complex software systems.
• Proactive, "can-do" attitude, viewing challenges as opportunities.
• Ability to see the bigger picture, breaking down large projects into clear, manageable tasks.
• Forward-thinking builder with a proven interest in AI.
• Professional proficiency in Python or similar languages for building systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Fluency in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Requirements

• Experience within the hospitality technology sector or similar industries (e.g. airline industry).
• Experience with data engineering (large-scale data processing and pipeline development), distributed systems, or high-throughput architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data cloud technologies, data streaming systems (like Kafka or Google Cloud Pub/Sub), and cloud database solutions (like BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks).

Benefits

• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Alan Flex benefits: 160€/month for food or nursery.
• Flexible retribution: Optional benefits through tax-free payroll deductions for food, transportation and/or nursery.
• Wellbeing support: Subsidized ClassPass subscription.
• Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.