Explore a new world of possibilities

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

As the Head of Engineering within our Marketplace team, you will be crucial to HomeToGo's success. This team is responsible for managing hundreds of partner integrations, ensuring the ingestion of data for millions of properties into our platform, and delivering accurate, transformed and enriched data to our downstream consumers. Ultimately, this work enhances the customer experience and ensure the success of our supplier partnerships.

Furthermore, the team maintains the communication channels that allow other teams to interact with partners’ services. They also support the development of our property data standard and the back-office tools utilized by our support teams.

Our diverse and modern tech stack includes PHP Symfony, .NET C#, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, Redis, Aerospike, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. With terabytes of data and billions of records processed daily, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact. Apply now and be part of our team!

How you’ll add value

• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the Marketplace Inventory Supply domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals and product vision

• Directly manage 3+ Engineering Teams, including Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers, fostering a high-performance culture, and providing mentorship and career development

• Lead the quarterly planning process (e.g., OKRs), translating high-level business objectives into clear, measurable, and achievable engineering goals and delivery plans

• Oversee the entire engineering lifecycle for partner integrations and property data ingestion/transformation, ensuring scalability, reliability, and accuracy of data for millions of properties

• Drive architectural excellence, making key technology decisions to optimize our high-volume, data-intensive platform (terabytes of data, billions of records processed daily)

• Collaborate closely with Product Management and other cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements, manage expectations, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of features and initiatives

• Champion best practices in software development, including code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational excellence across all teams

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for external partners, managing technical relationships and guiding integration standards

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Have an extensive experience in a leadership role managing engineering teams, ideally in a high-traffic, data-intensive marketplace or e-commerce environment

• Have technical expertise in one or more areas of our tech stack (e.g., C#, Symfony, distributed systems, high-volume data processing with Kafka/RabbitMQ, large-scale databases like MariaDB/Snowflake/ElasticSearch)

• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Have experience working with product managers and business teams to translate requirements into technical roadmaps and deliverables

• Have demonstrated ability to foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement

• Are familiar with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), and modern monitoring and observability practices

• Have Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

What we offer

• Career of growth opportunities and promotions, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international and distinguished team
• Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy and quarterly transparency about company goals. A focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities
• Compensation of attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin. Salary range: € 6500 - 8300 (gross / month)