Engineering Manager

What you'll be doing:

People Leadership:

• Inspire and motivate multiple cross-functional teams
• Directly manage engineers
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Foster a great culture that innovates, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.com teams and roles, and celebrates unified success
• Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work

Technology, Craft & Delivery:

• Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team
• Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives
• Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
• Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department

Architecture & Product Strategy:

• Define, shape and deliver the roadmap
• Build new products, processes and operational plans
• Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
• Drive innovation in the team
• Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment

What you'll bring:

• Strong people management skills and experience
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates respect through actions, not the title
• 6+ years of experience in software development
• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
• Strong coding & system design skills with the ability to get hands-on with your team if needed
• Experience with Java, Kafka, Cassandra and/or MySQL is a plus
• Deep experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing paradigms
• Experience in working on products with a large customer base and company-wide impact
• Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic and security concerns
• Past experience with Payments or FinTech and working in a regulated environment is a plus
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven mindset