Remote Associate Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

About RoomPriceGenie ✨🧞‍♂️

Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie is dedicated to helping hoteliers around the globe achieve optimal pricing. 🌍 We understand that many small hotels face challenges with digitalization, making their operations increasingly complex and often resulting in lost revenue. This is where we come in!

We have developed a powerful solution that enables hotels to set the right prices in just seconds. ⏱️ Our state-of-the-art algorithm analyzes both internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates.

With customers spanning the globe—from the USA and Canada to Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the UK—RoomPriceGenie has made a meaningful impact in the hospitality industry, and our clients love the results. ❤️

Now, we are excited to expand our customer base and spread the word about how we can support hoteliers in optimizing their pricing strategies. We invite you to join us on this journey! We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds to enrich our team and drive innovation.

Your Role

As an Associate Engineering Manager in the Customer Journey team at RoomPriceGenie, you’ll help shape the way we build, learn and deliver impact to our users.

You’ll manage a multidisciplinary team of backend and frontend engineers, empowering them to ship high-quality features that improve user activation, engagement and retention.

This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who has had some experience managing engineers and is eager to continue growing their management craft. You’ll continue to be technical (spending some of your time coding, reviewing or pairing) while driving clarity, focus and technical excellence across the team.

You’ll partner closely with a Product Manager and Senior Engineering Manager to translate strategy into outcomes, strengthen team health and foster a culture of high ownership and continuous improvement.

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead, coach and develop a talented team of engineers working across backend, frontend and data layers.

• Foster a culture of ownership, testing and quality, ensuring features are robust, scalable, and measurable.

• Drive the delivery of impactful projects, from ideation to production and iteration, in partnership with Product and Design.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, to raise the bar and help engineers grow in design thinking, architecture and cross-stack collaboration.

• Actively participate in hiring engineers.

• Maintain technical involvement, reviewing code, contributing to architecture discussions, and occasionally coding (outside of the critical path).

• Improve engineering processes to drive velocity, alignment and clear communication.

• Collaborate with other engineering managers and the Senior EM to strengthen team structure, knowledge sharing and engineering culture.

• Champion data-informed decisions, ensuring the team has the right feedback loops to measure success.

Your Profile

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer, you’ve built and maintained production systems and can still go deep technically.

• 1–2 years of experience managing engineers, including one-on-ones and leading delivery.

• Experience in a high-growth or scaling company is a strong plus. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity and helping teams adapt as the organisation evolves..

• Strong understanding of system design, architecture and engineering best practices across backend, frontend and data contexts.

• Strong product collaboration mindset, you enjoy working closely with PMs and Designers to define problems, validate solutions and measure outcomes

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, you inspire trust, clarity and accountability.

• You’re a servant leader: empathetic, organised and passionate about helping people do their best work.

• You’re comfortable balancing technical depth with people leadership and delivery outcomes.

• Fluent in English and based in the European time zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2).

What We Offer at RoomPriceGenie 💪

At RoomPriceGenie, we don’t just offer jobs; we offer an adventure! 🚀 Join us in an exciting startup atmosphere where you can grow your career while changing the world for tens of thousands of independent hoteliers. 🌍 Our global and diverse team is fueled by passion and a shared mission. We thrive in a culture that’s all about transparency, respect, and making a real impact together.

Here’s what you can expect when you become part of our Genie family:

• Remote-First Model: You can work flexibly from anywhere. 🌍🧑‍💻At the same time, we support co-working and you’re of course welcome to work from our offices in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney whenever you like. 🏢

• One Team, One Vision, One Goal: We’re in this together! 🤝 Our Genies are laser-focused on our mission, collaborating to make magic happen. ✨ It’s no wonder we score a stellar 9.3 from our team members! 🌟

• Epic Team Gatherings: Every year, we bring our global crew together 🌎 for a week of networking, brainstorming, and fun. 🎉 Plus, enjoy regular hangouts in our offices to keep the camaraderie alive.

• Growth and Development: We’re all about lifelong learning! 📚 Level up your skills with personal and professional development opportunities. You’ll even snag up to three extra days off each year to focus on your growth. 📈

• 5 Years? 5 Weeks! Stick with us, and we’ll reward your loyalty. After five years, you’ll earn an incredible five weeks of bonus vacation time 🏖️ to recharge and explore the world. 🌍

• Birthday Celebrations: It’s your day, so take it off! 🎂 Celebrate your birthday the way you want, guilt-free.

• Flexible Hours: We get it—life happens! ⏰ We offer flexible working hours to help you balance your work and personal life seamlessly.

• Wellbeing Matters: Your mental health is a top priority. 🧘 Every Genie gets access to Headspace, the leading meditation app, to help you cultivate a happier, healthier, and more zen life. 🌿

• BetterHelp Support: We also offer BetterHelp, a professional online therapy and counseling platform, giving you additional support whenever you need it.💛🧠

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