Engineering Manager, Search Engine (all genders)
Distribusion Technologies GmbH
WorldwideremotePosted 10 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Required experience: Experienced people leader of senior engineering teams
- Notable requirement: Track record with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Key benefit: Flexible and remote-friendly working options
- Key benefit: Relocation opportunities
Role overview
Distribusion is a leading ground transportation marketplace providing a B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail, and ferry operators in 70+ countries with major online retailers like Google Maps. Headquartered in Berlin and backed by venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, the company is scaling rapidly following a $80m Series C funding. The company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search team. This role focuses on the main API product, requiring a hands-on technical leader to manage a senior engineering team in a high-throughput, low-latency domain, with the primary mission of preparing the architecture for 10x growth while maintaining cost-efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Manage, lead, and support an experienced team of engineers, providing coaching, alignment, and performance management.
- Take ownership of domain health, ensuring our high-throughput, low-latency systems are robust, scalable, and consistently meeting performance goals.
- 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.
- Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to the code, system design, and architecture in a highly complex problem space.
- Deliver projects and features that our Product and Business teams expect to scale business activity with our Carriers and Retailers.
Requirements
- Experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering teams.
- Highly technical and hands-on, capable of understanding and guiding deeply complex system architectures.
- Proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Strong business and resource-optimization mindset, with the ability to make strategic architectural decisions that directly impact company profitability and infrastructure costs.
- Strong programming experience in any modern backend language.
- Excited to lead new development in Rust or Go; adaptable and willing to learn.
- Extreme ownership over domain health and comfortable operating in an environment where technical challenges far outweigh basic language-level syntax issues.
- Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
Benefits
- Make a global impact: Help shape how millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.
- Own your work: Take responsibility from day one and see the direct impact of your contributions.
- Build with the best tools: Continuously evolve tech stack and invest in modern, efficient solutions.
- Work with industry leaders: Partners include Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
- Grow with exceptional people: Join an international team that will challenge, support, and inspire you every day.
- Work your way: Enjoy flexible and remote-friendly working options, relocation opportunities, and plenty of room to grow.
Additional details
- Workplace: remote-first company with teams located around the Globe and a HQ in Berlin.
- Hiring team: Talent Partner is Lorena Rebenciuc and the Hiring Manager is Bartosz Pranczke.
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