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Engineering Team Lead, B2B Portal (all genders)
Distribusion Technologies GmbH
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Required experience: Experienced people leader (front-end/fullstack)
- Key benefit: Flexible and remote working conditions
- Notable requirement: Fluent English (verbal and written)
- Key focus: Managing and leading teams in a scaling eCommerce division
Role overview
Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace, providing a B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail, and ferry operators in 70+ countries with major online retailers. Backed by venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, they are a fast-growing travel startup headquartered in Berlin. The company is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to join the eCommerce division, which now exceeds 50 engineers. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, eCommerce, the role involves managing and leading the team across people-related matters and engineering delivery to help scale business activity with Carriers and Retailers.
Responsibilities
- Manage, lead, and grow Engineering teams (people development, people engagement, hiring, etc.)
- Take responsibility for the architectural design within the domain
- Increase the quality and stability of our services
- Plan resources of the team according to the roadmap quarterly
- Ensure operational excellence in delivery quality, speed, and communication.
- Be responsible for Incident management
Requirements
- Experienced people leader who has managed front-end or fullstack teams, ideally in scaleups or high-growth, high-quality organizations of similar size.
- Understand and review code in ReactJS and Python, and have experience with cloud technologies.
- Well-rounded engineer, able to address technical issues hands-on, and can guide strong system design and coding practices.
- Deep knowledge of microservice architecture, event-driven approaches, and distributed systems tailored for asynchronous communication.
- Demonstrate coaching, performance management, and senior stakeholder engagement, including customer-facing experience.
- Drive projects, inspire teams, and actively develop the technical brand internally and externally.
- Show ownership, responsibility, and a growth mindset that constantly challenges and guides teams to new standards.
- Communicate fluently in English, both verbal and written.
Benefits
- Flexible and remote working conditions
- Relocation opportunities
- Career growth in a small and developing company
- Join a fast-paced travel tech company and take on a rapidly growing industry
- Ownership and responsibility from day one with direct impact on the success of the company
- Access to cutting-edge, efficient solutions and a constantly updating tech stack
- Opportunity to work with global companies and biggest names in travel technology (e.g., Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF)
- Join an international team of talented and driven people with a clear mission
Additional details
- Workplace: Remote-first company with teams located around the Globe; HQ office is in Berlin where the team often meets.
- Tech stack Languages: Python, React Native, Ruby
- Tech stack Cloud platforms: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
- Tech stack Database: Relational databases
- Tech stack Messaging and caching: Kafka, Redis
- Tech stack Project management: Jira
- Tech stack Principles: Software development best practices, distributed microservices architecture
- Hiring team: Talent Partner (TP) is Lorena Rebenciuc; Hiring Manager (HM) is Roger Sindreu.
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