Engineering Manager, Search Engine (all genders)

Location: Remote job <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="[Link Protected] 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="[Link Protected] team</a>.&nbsp;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> <p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p><ul><li><p>You are an experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering teams.</p></li><li><p>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.</p></li><li><p>You have a proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.</p></li><li><p>You bring a strong business and resource-optimization mindset, with the ability to make strategic architectural decisions that directly impact company profitability and infrastructure costs.</p></li><li><p>You have strong programming experience in any modern backend language and are excited to lead new development in Rust or Go. You are also adaptable and willing to learn.</p></li><li><p>You show extreme ownership over your domain's health and are comfortable operating in an environment where technical challenges far outweigh basic language-level syntax issues.</p></li><li><p>You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.<strong><br></strong></p></li></ul><p><strong><span style="color:#5C6175">What you can expect:</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Make a global impact.</strong> Help shape how millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.</p></li><li><p><strong>Own your work.</strong> Take responsibility from day one and see the direct impact of your contributions.</p></li><li><p><strong>Build with the best tools.</strong> We move fast, continuously evolve our tech stack, and invest in modern, efficient solutions.</p></li><li><p><strong>Work with industry leaders.</strong> Our partners include <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="[Link Protected] Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.</p></li><li><p><strong>Grow with exceptional people.</strong> Join an international team that will challenge, support, and inspire you every day.</p></li><li><p><strong>Work your way.</strong> Enjoy flexible and remote-friendly working options, relocation opportunities, and plenty of room to grow.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><strong><em>Our hiring&nbsp;team for this role:</em></strong><em><br>Your Talent Partner (TP) and point of contact is </em><strong><em>Lorena Rebenciuc</em></strong><em>, and the Hiring Manager (HM) is </em><strong><em>Bartosz <span style="font-size:1.1em">Pranczke</span></em></strong><em>.<br>For any queries, contact your Talent Partner at (</em><a rel="noopener" target="_blank" ---------- you want to work on a product that is used by millions of people daily with a high load, availability and scalability, and the most advanced technology?&nbsp;</em>Come join us!</p><p>Find more <a href="[Link Protected] Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a> GDPR Compliance: Sourced via verified public channels under Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). 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