As an Engineering Manager, you will be part of the Discovery team in the Guest Experience department. The team is responsible for designing and maintaining the list page of our website, ensuring users can easily find the best vacation rental from our search results.

Your contributions will help create a seamless and joyful journey for travellers, which will result in increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

Your team will consist of frontend & backend engineers (direct reports), a project manager and a QA engineer.

You'll work closely with the Ranking, Conqueror, and Marketing teams, which manage the machine learning models for property ranking on the list page, booking systems, and Holidu's marketing efforts. Together, you'll ensure a seamless and cohesive user experience.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: Typescript and NodeJS processes in Kubernetes. We use ReactJS, Zustand and TailwindCSS on the client and Express on the server.

• Backend: Java 17/21, Kotlin (Spring Boot).

• Infrastructure: Microservices architecture deployed on AWS Kubernetes (EKS).

• Data Management: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch 7, Redshift (part of a data lake structure).

• DevOps Tools: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Terraform.

• Monitoring & Analytics: ELK, Grafana, Looker, Opsgenie, and in-house solutions.

Your role in this journey

• Lead a high-performing cross-functional team, focusing on product innovation, infrastructure reliability, delivery speed, quality, engineering culture, and team growth.

• Ensure your team delivers applications that are highly scalable, highly available, and capable of handling high traffic of up to 1 million unique users per day.

• Support team growth through regular feedback, mentorship, and by recruiting exceptional engineers.

• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to define the team's goals (OKR’s) and roadmap.

• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.

• Lead strategic team-driven projects, identify opportunities, define and uphold quality standards.

• Foster a great team culture aligned with the company values, ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.

• Take full responsibility for delivering impactful features to millions of users annually.

The role includes dedicating approximately 40-50% of the time as an individual contributor focused on feature implementation.

Your backpack is filled with

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience building and implementing backend services and/or frontend applications.

• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g., setting goals and priorities, architecture design, task planning and code reviews).

• Experience as a people manager with the ability to build an excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning and support for each other.

• Love for building world-class products with a great user experience.

Our adventure includes

• Impact: Shape the future of travel with products used by millions of guests and thousands of hosts. At Holidu ideas become products, data drives decisions, and iteration fuels fast learning. Your work matters,and you’ll see the impact.

• Learning: Grow professionally in a culture that thrives on curiosity and feedback. You’ll learn from outstanding colleagues, collaborate across disciplines, and benefit from mentorship, and personal learning budgets,with a strong focus on AI.

• Great People: Join a team of smart, motivated and international colleagues who challenge and support each other. We celebrate wins and keep our culture fun, ambitious and human. Our customers are guests and hosts,people we can all relate to,making work meaningful and energizing.

• Technology: Work in a modern tech environment. You’ll experience the pace of a scale-up combined with the stability of a proven business model, enabling you to build, test, and improve continuously.

• Flexibility: Work a hybrid setup with 50% in-office time for collaboration, and spend up to 8 weeks a year from other inspiring locations. You’ll stay connected through regular events and meet-ups across our almost 30 offices.

• Competitive Package: 95.000-125.000€ + VSOPs based on relevant experience and seniority , learn more about our approach to compensation here.

• Perks on Top: Of course, we also offer travel benefits, gym discounts, and other perks to keep you energized,but what truly sets us apart is the chance to grow in a dynamic industry, alongside amazing people, while having fun along the way.

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Are you ready to shape the future of travel tech at scale? We are seeking an exceptional Staff Frontend Developer to drive technical excellence across our entire booking funnel.

We're among the leading travel tech companies worldwide, growing substantially and sustainably year after year, with a mission to make vacation home booking and hosting decisions stress-free and packed with joy.

Our vibrant team of over 600 talented individuals from 60+ countries shares a passion for cutting-edge technology, constant improvement, and creating exceptional experiences for our 50,000 hosts and 100 million website users each year.

Your Future Team

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be the technical authority across all teams in the booking funnel , from the Discovery team's list pages all the way through the checkout funnel to the Post Booking experience.

You'll design and implement overarching frontend architecture that scales to handle millions of users, while establishing best practices that elevate the entire engineering department.

Our Tech Stack

• Core Technologies: TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Zustand, TailwindCSS, Express, Vite, SSR.
• Data Infrastructure: DynamoDB, Redis.
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git.
• Monitoring & Analytics: Sentry, ELK, Grafana, Looker, OpsGenie, and internally developed technologies.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Define the technical vision and strategy for the frontend engineers of GX department, aligning with organizational goals and anticipating industry trends.
• Architect scalable, high-availability frontend systems serving 1M+ daily users across the entire booking funnel.
• Lead the design and implementation of department-wide technical initiatives that impact conversion rates, customer satisfaction, and technical excellence.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with Engineering Managers and Department Leaders to shape the technical roadmap.
• Contribute to specifications for large-scale projects, organizing parallel workstreams that reassemble into cohesive launches.

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Establish, iterate on, and enforce engineering best practices (testing, documentation, architecture) department-wide.
• Review code and set quality standards that become the gold standard across teams.

Mentorship & Knowledge Leadership

• Mentor senior developers, helping them grow into technical leaders.
• Lead department-wide knowledge sharing initiatives and technical workshops.

Your Backpack is Filled with

• 8+ years of frontend development experience with deep expertise in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, and ReactJS.
• Proven track record of architecting large-scale frontend applications handling millions of users.
• Expert-level proficiency with state management, performance optimization, and modern build tools.

Leadership & Strategic Thinking

• Demonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategies at department or company level.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without direct authority.

Business & Domain Knowledge

• Ability to connect technical decisions to business KPIs and department goals.
• Experience working closely with product and business stakeholders at all levels.

Our Adventure Includes

• Strategic Impact: Shape the technical direction of a rapidly growing travel tech leader.
• Technical Excellence: Work with cutting-edge technologies and influence architectural decisions.
• Leadership Growth: Lead initiatives that impact millions of users and mentor the next generation of engineers.

Want to Travel with Us?

Take a peek into our culture on Instagram @lifeatholidu and check out Tech at Holidu to meet the people behind the product.

Apply now and let’s make vacation dreams come true – at scale.

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