Engineering Manager - Full Stack

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role

Hybrid

Lead a platform that helps travellers fall back in love with planning. Vega Squad owns Skyscanner’s Save to List platform — the behind-the-scenes magic that lets travellers dream, save, revisit and book with ease. As Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a talented full-stack team building systems that stretch across Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Airflow, Databricks and more.

This is a role with real product impact — your leadership will shape how millions of travellers organise their trips, return to Skyscanner, and ultimately choose where to go next ✨.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading a full-stack squad: Guide and support a team building and operating the Save to List platform used across apps and web.

• Setting direction & clarity: Establish team goals, technical strategy and priorities that drive meaningful traveller impact.

• Driving impactful delivery: Collaborate with product and engineering partners to launch new traveller features end-to-end.

• Building robust systems: Ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of distributed systems powering core travel experiences.

• Championing engineering excellence: Promote good practices, automation, and high operational standards across the squad.

• Growing people, not just products: Coach engineers through 1:1s, mentorship and clear career development support.

• Encouraging collaboration & ownership: Foster an environment where open communication, shared learning and collective responsibility thrive.

About you

• Experienced technical leader: You’ve successfully led and developed engineering teams in fast-moving environments.

• Distributed-systems savvy: You understand event-driven architectures, AWS cloud services and modern backend patterns.

• Technically versatile: Skilled in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React), Python or Java — and excited to work across a varied stack.

• Data & pipelines aware: Comfortable with Airflow, PySpark, Skyspark or Databricks to support data-driven decisions and processing.

• Product-minded & pragmatic: You navigate ambiguity with ease and deliver impactful, user-centric solutions at scale.

• A reliability champion: Obsessed (in a healthy way!) with making systems stable, scalable and operationally excellent.

• A people-first leader: You bring out the best in teams — inspiring collaboration, curiosity and a sense of shared mission.

What it’s like here

We are the real deal, no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.