React Job: Engineering Manager (Java) - Bookiply Spain (f-m-d

Your future team

• Bookiply is our software and service solution which vacation rental owners use to manage and distribute their properties more efficiently.
• Your team is an international group consisting of 40 (and growing) Developers, Designers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers and QAs.
• Together with your teammates, you will focus on creating a best-in-class tool to help our homeowners manage their properties effortlessly. You and your team are responsible for bringing new features to the Bookiply app and services and delivering a great user-experience to our homeowners and internal users.

Our Tech Stack

• Backend applications written in Java 11+ and Kotlin (with Spring Boot).
• Deployed as microservices on AWS hosted Kubernetes cluster (EKS).
• Event-driven communication between services through ActiveMQ.
• Usage of a diverse set of technologies depending on the use case such as PostgreSQL, SQS, S3, Redis, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Kafka, and many more.
• Monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and CloudWatch.
• Internal and external web applications written with ReactJS.

Your role in this journey

• As Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional team which is fully responsible for systems used by internal stakeholders (Sales, Account Managers, Customer Happiness). The stakeholders have ambitious growth targets and it’s your team’s task to support them with technical solutions and innovations.
• Work closely with your engineers to develop high-quality solutions in cross-functional projects.
• Tackle team’s tasks by dedicating a portion of your time to active coding.
• Ensure our applications are stable and highly scalable, able to support the high growth trajectory of the company.
• Focus on the growth of your team by offering constructive feedback and by recruiting new engineers.
• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to understand the business context and define the team's goals and roadmap.
• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.
• Foster a culture of ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.

Your backpack is filled with

• Proven track record as a successful software engineer with Java/Kotlin/Spring, building backend applications.
• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g., setting goals and priorities, architecture design, task planning, and code reviews).
• Experience as an (informal) team leader, with the ability to build excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning, and support for each other.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Able to deal with ambiguity and clarify through communication.

Our adventure includes

• Have an impact on the millions of people using our product every month.
• Grow with responsibility from day 1 and develop yourself further through regular feedback, workshops and knowledge exchange.
• Use your personal development budget and 2 extra days off to enhance your professional skills by visiting conferences, buying books, attending courses and more.
• Connect and have fun with international, diverse and yet like-minded people at work, regular events and weekly office days with your team.
• Get to know the world with our flexible home office policy and the opportunity to work from other local offices.
• Go travelling for 23 vacation days with interesting discounts on our Bookiply properties.
• Get a sneak peek at the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu.

Want to travel with us?

Apply online on our career page! Your first travel contact will be Katharina from HR.

We champion diversity in every aspect of life. We encourage applications from all genders, corners of the world and individual backgrounds. Please feel welcome to submit your application without a photo and details on your gender, date of birth, marital status and nationality. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

CONTACT_PERSON

KATHARINA

Location

Málaga, Spain