Remote Hands-On Engineering Manager - Growth, 3 Engineers (m/f/d)

About RoomPriceGenie ✨🧞‍♂️

Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie is dedicated to helping hoteliers around the globe achieve optimal pricing. 🌍 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 have developed a powerful solution that enables hotels to set the right prices in just seconds. ⏱️ Our state-of-the-art algorithm analyzes both internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates.

With customers spanning the globe—from the USA and Canada to Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the UK—RoomPriceGenie has made a meaningful impact in the hospitality industry, and our clients love the results. ❤️

Now, we are excited to expand our customer base and spread the word about how we can support hoteliers in optimizing their pricing strategies. We invite you to join us on this journey! We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds to enrich our team and drive innovation.

As a hands-on Engineering Manager in the Customer Journey (Growth) team at RoomPriceGenie, you will lead a small team of engineers improving how hoteliers discover and realise value in our platform, from activation and onboarding to feature adoption and long-term engagement. Beyond growth, the team also owns three foundational domains: Auth, User Management and Payments.

This is a genuinely hands-on leadership role. You will guide the team's execution, coach engineers, and stay technically in the work through code reviews, architecture discussions, pairing and direct coding. It is not a step away from the codebase.

You will work closely with a Product Manager and a Senior Engineering Manager, and a core part of the job is turning growth opportunities into outcomes through experimentation: bets, A/B tests and data-informed iteration rather than large all-or-nothing projects. We expect you to be a genuine partner to Product, able to challenge and shape what gets built, not only how.

• Lead, coach and support a small multidisciplinary team working across backend and frontend.

• Partner closely with Product and Design, and challenge them: push back on direction, bring your own point of view, and land changes to what the team builds, not just how it builds.

• Drive experimentation and measurement: help the team ship bets and improvements from idea to production, and build the feedback loops to evaluate real product impact.

• Own delivery across the team's scope: growth and activation work, plus the Auth, User Management and Payments domains.

• Foster ownership, testing and quality, so features are reliable, scalable and measurable.

• Stay technically engaged through reviews, architecture discussions, pairing and frequent coding.

• Improve engineering processes and team practices to increase clarity, alignment and delivery.

• Manage performance actively, supporting engineers to grow and addressing issues directly when they arise.

• Strong software engineering background with a track record of building and operating production systems.

• Real people-management experience, 1-2 years or more, including performance management. This is a management role, and prior management experience is required. Exceptional Tech Leads or Staff engineers are welcome if they have genuinely led and managed people, not only projects.

• Experience in the Growth space, as an engineer or a manager. Product growth or product-driven SaaS experience is a strong signal.

• A strong product mindset with the confidence to challenge Product. You enjoy defining problems and validating solutions with PMs and Designers, and you are comfortable disagreeing, proposing alternatives and driving them to a decision.

• Genuinely hands-on and happy to stay that way: you want to code, review and pair, not move to a mostly-management split.

• Comfortable in our stack: React/TS on the frontend and Python/Django on the backend. A partial match is fine (for example strong frontend, backend in another language) if you are ready to ramp quickly.

• Strong grasp of system design, architecture and engineering best practices.

• Excellent communication and leadership: you create clarity, trust and accountability, with a servant-leadership mindset toward your team.

• Fluent in English and based in a European time zone (UTC+0 to UTC+2).

What We Offer at RoomPriceGenie 💪

At RoomPriceGenie, we don’t just offer jobs; we offer an adventure! 🚀 Join us in an exciting startup atmosphere where you can grow your career while changing the world for tens of thousands of independent hoteliers. 🌍 Our global and diverse team is fueled by passion and a shared mission. We thrive in a culture that’s all about transparency, respect, and making a real impact together.

Here’s what you can expect when you become part of our Genie family:

• Remote-First Model: Work from (almost!) anywhere. 🌍🧑‍💻 Some roles need you in a specific country or time zone — we'll always flag that in the job ad. And whenever you like, come co-work with us in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney. 🏢

• One Team, One Vision, One Goal: We’re in this together! 🤝 Our Genies are laser-focused on our mission, collaborating to make magic happen. ✨ It’s no wonder we score a stellar 9.3 from our team members! 🌟

• Epic Team Gatherings: Every year, we bring our global crew together 🌎 for a week of networking, brainstorming, and fun. 🎉 Plus, enjoy regular hangouts in our offices to keep the camaraderie alive.

• Growth and Development: We’re all about lifelong learning! 📚 Level up your skills with personal and professional development opportunities. You’ll even snag up to three extra days off each year to focus on your growth. 📈

• 5 Years? 5 Weeks! Stick with us, and we’ll reward your loyalty. After five years, you’ll earn an incredible five weeks of bonus vacation time 🏖️ to recharge and explore the world. 🌍

• Birthday Celebrations: It’s your day, so take it off! 🎂 Celebrate your birthday the way you want, guilt-free.

• Flexible Hours: We get it—life happens! ⏰ We offer flexible working hours to help you balance your work and personal life seamlessly.

• Wellbeing Matters: Your mental health is a top priority. 🧘 Every Genie gets access to Headspace, the leading meditation app, to help you cultivate a happier, healthier, and more zen life. 🌿

• BetterHelp Support: We also offer BetterHelp, a professional online therapy and counseling platform, giving you additional support whenever you need it.💛🧠

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