Engineering Manager, Search

Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace providing seamless access to bus, rail, and ferry operators in over 70 countries. The company’s B2B technology platform connects transport operators with the biggest online retailers, including Google Maps and Booking.com. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Distribusion is one of the fastest-growing startups in travel and recently secured $80m Series C funding.

• Experienced people leader with a track record of managing senior engineering teams.
• Highly technical and hands-on engineer capable of guiding complex system architectures.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Strong business and resource optimization mindset with ability to make strategic architectural decisions impacting profitability and costs.
• Programming experience in modern backend languages; willingness to lead development in Rust or Go and adapt to new technologies.
• Ownership over domain health and comfort with operating in technically challenging environments.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.

• Manage, lead, and support an experienced engineering team with coaching, alignment, and performance management.
• Take ownership of domain health, ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and meet performance goals.
• Drive profitability and cost optimization by addressing architectural challenges to scale the system without exponential infrastructure cost increases.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to code, system design, and architecture within a complex problem space.

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