Remote Hands-On Data 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.

Why RoomPriceGenie?

We're a company that takes both culture and product seriously, and we have the recognition to back it up: Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech (2026) and Best Revenue Management Software (2026). We operate at real scale, powering pricing for thousands of hotels worldwide on a modern data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Dagster, dbt, AWS). We give engineers real ownership and autonomy, with support always there when you need it. This role is fully remote within Europe, and you'll be helping disrupt a traditional industry while making a tangible impact on how hotels run their business.

Your Role

As a Hands-On Engineering Manager at RoomPriceGenie, you’ll lead a small team (2 engineers) working on data-intensive systems that power key parts of our product.

These systems process large volumes of data and directly influence how our platform helps hotels make better pricing and revenue decisions.

This role is ideal for an early-career Engineering Manager or an exceptional Senior, Staff or Tech Lead engineer ready to step into their first formal leadership role.

You’ll guide the team’s technical direction, support engineers in their growth, and remain technically engaged through design discussions, code reviews and hands-on code contributions.

Working closely with Product and other engineering teams, you’ll help shape scalable systems that transform large volumes of data into reliable, high-impact product capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach and support a small team of engineers working on data-intensive systems and services.

• Drive the technical direction and delivery of projects that process, model or expose large-scale datasets.

• Foster strong engineering practices around system reliability, data correctness, performance and maintainability.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, helping engineers grow in architecture, system design and data modeling.

• Stay technically engaged through code reviews, architecture discussions and coding.

• Collaborate closely with Product and other teams to ensure systems deliver meaningful product outcomes.

• Improve engineering processes and team practices to increase clarity, alignment and delivery velocity.

• Help evolve our data and platform architecture, improving scalability and operational simplicity.

Your Profile

• Strong experience building and operating production systems.

• Experience leading engineers or technical initiatives (for example as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager).

• Exceptional Senior, Staff or Tech Lead engineers with strong technical leadership experience are encouraged to apply.

• Comfortable staying technically involved while leading a team.

• Experience working with data platforms, distributed systems or large-scale data pipelines.

• Strong understanding of system design, scalability and operational reliability.

• Experience with modern data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or similar technologies is a strong plus.

• Partner closely with the Product Manager to shape roadmaps, define technical approaches, and ensure the team delivers impactful and reliable product capabilities.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills you create clarity, ownership and trust within the team.

• Fluent in English and based in the European time zone (UTC+0 to 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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