Engineering Manager - London London, England
Job description
We are TravelPerk: a scaling unicorn valued at $1.3billion that has raised over $400m since our creation in 2015.
Backed by world-class investors with portfolios including AirBnb, Stripe, Slack, Trello, Gusto, Twitter, Farfetch and Deliveroo, our team is made up of A-players from across the travel and technology industries.
Over the past few years, we've been named the fastest-growing SaaS startup in the world by SaaS1000 and featured as one of the hottest startups to watch by both Forbes and Wired. We're revolutionising the B2B corporate travel market—worth over $1.3 trillion— to connect people in real life in an enjoyable and sustainable way.
TravelPerk are innovators. During the last year we have welcomed and acquired the likes of Click Travel, NexTravel and Albatross to the team. From TravelCare, to FlexiPerk and of course GreenPerk we are shaping the future of the industry. Our team continues to emerge stronger and stronger as we adjust to the new normal—and that's where you come in!
If you're ready to take off with us, keep reading!
As an Engineering Manager, this position involves:
- Being a servant leader to your engineers, taking care of their performance in the organisation and supporting their journey to achieve their personal and performance goals
- Management and mentorship of your engineers
- Enabling fluent and effective knowledge sharing, when faced with challenging topics such as system architecture, design or implementation
- Building a strong partnership with the Product team to deliver the right things well
- Being a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team.
- Working with the business and team metrics to deliver a "7 star experience" to our customers
- An understanding of how engineering impacts product and business needs
- Providing feedback to stakeholders within Product and Engineering (and sometimes the wider business)
- Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
Required skills and experience:
- Engineering management experience, within software company
- Background in delivering impactful product outcomes
- You are a people manager who builds an effective work culture that improves the working lives of your team
- You act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineering fellows to perform at their best
- You run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next in line with their aspirations and the needs of the business
- Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance
- You have the ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment
- You are able to operate at a tactical level while understanding the big-picture strategy
What do we offer?
- Competitive compensation including equity in the company
- Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge
- Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance depending on your location
- "Flexible compensation plan" to help you diversify and increase the net salary
- Flexibility to work from home
- Unforgettable TravelPerk events including to travel to one of our hubs
- Mental health support tools for your wellbeing
- Exponential growth opportunities
We are an IRL (in real life) company and as such have worked hard to build up local hubs in our core markets to support in real life collaborations as much as possible. We of course support flexible working patterns but it is our objective to maximise that IRL connection more than remote.
For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.
TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base—and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We're an equal opportunity employer, which means you're welcome at TravelPerk regardless of how you look, where you're from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.
