Engineering Manager Search Engine

**About us** **Distribusion** is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and [Booking.com](http://Booking.com). We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond. **The opportunity** We are looking for an **Engineering Manager** to lead our [Search team](https://careers.distribusion.com/tech-product-teams#list-dc654cac). The role entails contributing to the product & technical domains of excellence in the main API product that enables large retailers to seamlessly purchase tickets from bus & rail carriers worldwide. This is a highly skilled, senior engineering team operating in a highly complex, high-throughput, and low-latency domain. You will be stepping into an area where performance and cost-efficiency are critical, and your biggest challenge will be technical and strategic. With our platform scaling rapidly, your mission is to prepare our architecture for 10x growth. We need a hands-on leader who still fundamentally thinks of themselves as an Engineer, capable of diving deep into the technical weeds while steering the domain's business goals. **What you will do:** * 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. **Workplace:** Berlin & hybrid / EU & Remote We are a remote-first company with teams located around the Globe. Also, the HQ office is in Berlin, where the team often meets.