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.

We're a company that takes both culture and product seriously, and we have the recognition to back it up: Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech (2026) and Best Revenue Management Software (2026). We operate at real scale, powering pricing for thousands of hotels worldwide on a modern data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Dagster, dbt, AWS). We give engineers real ownership and autonomy, with support always there when you need it. This role is fully remote within Europe, and you'll be helping disrupt a traditional industry while making a tangible impact on how hotels run their business.

As a Hands-On Engineering Manager in the Customer Journey (Growth) team at RoomPriceGenie, you’ll lead a small team of 3 engineers focused on improving how hoteliers discover value in our platform: from activation and onboarding to feature adoption and long-term engagement.

This role is ideal for an early-career Engineering Manager or an exceptional Senior, Staff or Tech Lead engineer ready to step into a formal leadership role.

You’ll guide the team’s execution, support engineers in their growth, and stay technically engaged through code reviews, architectural discussions, pairing and coding contributions.

Working closely with a Product Manager and a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll translate growth opportunities into product outcomes, helping the team ship experiments, iterate quickly and continuously improve the user journey.

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

• Drive initiatives that improve user activation, onboarding, feature adoption and retention.

• Foster a culture of ownership, testing and quality, ensuring features are reliable, scalable and measurable.

• Help the team deliver experiments and product improvements, from ideation through production and iteration.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, helping engineers grow in system design, architecture and cross-stack collaboration.

• Stay technically engaged through code reviews, architectural discussions, pairing and direct coding contributions.

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

• Collaborate with Product and Design to ensure solutions are user-centered and data-informed.

• Champion experimentation and measurement, ensuring the team has the right feedback loops to evaluate product impact.

• Strong experience as a Software Engineer, with a proven track record building and operating production systems.

• Experience leading engineers or projects (for example as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager).

• 1–2 years of formal people management experience is a plus, but not required.

• Exceptional Senior, Staff or Tech Lead engineers with a strong track record of technical leadership and mentorship are encouraged to apply.

• Comfortable staying technically involved while leading a team.

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

• Strong product mindset: you enjoy collaborating closely with Product Managers and Designers to define problems, validate solutions and measure outcomes.

• Experience working in product-driven SaaS or product growth environments is a strong plus.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills: you create clarity, trust and accountability within the team.

• You bring a servant leadership mindset: empathetic, organized and motivated by helping others succeed.

• Fluent in English and based in the 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: You can work flexibly from anywhere. 🌍🧑‍💻At the same time, we support co-working and you’re of course welcome to work from our offices in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney whenever you like. 🏢

• 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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