<p><strong>About us</strong></p><p><strong>Distribusion</strong> 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 <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="http://Booking.com">Booking.com</a>.</p><p>We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond.<br /><br /><strong>The opportunity</strong></p><p>We are looking for an <strong>Engineering Manager </strong>to lead our <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://careers.distribusion.com/tech-product-teams#list-dc654cac">Search team</a>. The role entails contributing to the product &amp; technical domains of excellence in the main API product that enables large retailers to seamlessly purchase tickets from bus &amp; rail carriers worldwide. </p><p>This is a highly skilled, senior engineering team operating in a highly complex, high-throughput, and low-latency domain.</p><p>You will be stepping into an area where performance and cost-efficiency are critical, and your biggest challenge will be technical and strategic. With our platform scaling rapidly, your mission is to prepare our architecture for 10x growth. We need a hands-on leader who still fundamentally thinks of themselves as an Engineer, capable of diving deep into the technical weeds while steering the domain's business goals.<strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Manage, lead, and support an experienced team of engineers, providing coaching, alignment, and performance management.</p></li><li><p>Take ownership of domain health, ensuring our high-throughput, low-latency systems are robust, scalable, and consistently meeting performance goals.</p></li><li><p>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.</p></li><li><p>Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to the code, system design, and architecture in a highly complex problem space.<strong><br /></strong></p></li></ul><p><strong>Workplace: </strong>Berlin &amp; hybrid / EU &amp; Remote</p><p> We are a remote-first company with teams located around the Globe. Also, the HQ office is in Berlin, where the team often meets.</p><br /><br /><p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p><ul><li><p>You are an experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering