RoomPriceGenie is hiring a Remote Hands-On Data Engineering Manager to lead a small team of 3 engineers working on the data-intensive systems that power key parts of our product. You will guide technical direction, support engineer growth, and remain technically engaged through design, code reviews, and hands-on contributions.
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.
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience building and operating production systems.
- Experience leading engineers or technical initiatives (for example as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager).
- 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.
- 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).
Nice to Have
- Experience with modern data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster or similar technologies is a strong plus.
Technical Stack
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Dagster
- dbt
- AWS
Team & Environment
You will lead a small team of 3 engineers working on data-intensive systems. Our culture is built on transparency, respect, and making a real impact together as one global team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Remote-first model with flexible work from anywhere.
- Access to offices in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney.
- Annual global team gathering for a week.
- Regular team hangouts in offices.
- Personal and professional development opportunities.
- Up to three extra days off each year for personal growth.
- Five weeks of bonus vacation time after five years.
- Birthday day off.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to Headspace meditation app.
- Access to BetterHelp online therapy and counseling platform.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position open to candidates in Europe.
RoomPriceGenie is an equal opportunity employer.
