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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, Pricing & Revenue based in United Kingdom.
As Engineering Manager, Pricing & Revenue, you’ll lead the development of core systems that power hotel distribution, pricing, and revenue optimization across a global travel technology platform. You’ll combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering, shaping architecture and guiding a team responsible for systems with a direct impact on commercial performance. You’ll tackle complex backend challenges, from processing searches across approximately 200 hotel suppliers to building a sophisticated pricing engine and automated rebooking capabilities. Working closely with Product and Trading, you’ll turn business opportunities into scalable, reliable technical solutions. With a small team, minimal bureaucracy, and significant autonomy, you’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful decisions, mentor engineers, and see the measurable impact of your work.
Lead the technical direction, architecture, reliability, and delivery of the Pricing & Revenue engineering domain.
Design and develop a sophisticated pricing engine that balances supplier availability, demand, competitiveness, distribution, and profit margins.
Build and improve high-performance hotel search systems capable of handling synchronous queries across approximately 200 suppliers while maintaining predictable latency and reliability.
Develop new trading capabilities, including automated rebooking workflows, initially supporting internal operations and potentially evolving into customer-facing products.
Improve hotel search availability and booking fulfilment, ensuring customers can successfully complete the reservations they initiate.
Remain hands-on with architecture, code, system design, and production troubleshooting while guiding the team's technical execution.
Lead, mentor, and grow a small engineering team, supporting recruitment, technical development, and high-quality delivery.
Collaborate closely with Product and Trading to translate complex commercial challenges into technical solutions with measurable business outcomes.
Take ownership of engineering decisions and production systems, continuously improving scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes, move quickly, and deliver improvements with minimal organizational overhead.
Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams while remaining actively involved in architecture, coding, and production systems.
Strong backend engineering expertise, including substantial experience with Go.
Deep knowledge of distributed systems, high-volume APIs, latency optimization, concurrency, and reliability engineering.
Experience designing, building, or improving marketplace, trading, pricing, or optimization systems involving both supply and demand.
Understanding of how pricing, inventory, distribution, and fulfilment interact within a marketplace environment.
Ability to translate complex commercial objectives into robust technical architectures and engineering initiatives that deliver measurable results.
Experience working with systems that manage real-world inventory, such as travel, mobility, delivery, or e-commerce platforms, is particularly valuable.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to make architectural decisions independently while balancing immediate business needs with long-term scalability.
Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to align engineering work with product and commercial priorities.
Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, limited processes, and a high degree of individual accountability.
A hands-on, problem-solving mindset and a genuine interest in tackling technically challenging systems with direct commercial impact.
Remote and hybrid flexibility: Work remotely from within Europe or choose a hybrid arrangement in Barcelona, Dublin, London, or Palma de Mallorca. Specific arrangements for Romania should be confirmed during the recruitment process.
Meaningful equity opportunity: Participate in the company's growth through equity, with potential upside as future milestones are achieved.
Significant technical ownership: Shape architecture, define the evolution of a core revenue-generating platform, and influence important engineering decisions.
High autonomy: Work in a fast-moving environment with small teams, limited bureaucracy, and the freedom to make decisions and implement improvements.
Hands-on leadership: Continue developing your engineering expertise while mentoring and growing a team.
Direct business impact: See how technical decisions influence pricing competitiveness, platform performance, revenue, and customer outcomes.
Global collaboration: Work on infrastructure serving an international travel ecosystem and supporting major travel, technology, and fintech partners.
Growth-stage opportunity: Help build new pricing and trading capabilities on top of an established platform with ambitious plans for continued growth.
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