Engineering Manager

At SiteMinder, we believe the individual contributions of our employees drive our success. We hire and encourage diverse teams that include and respect a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Our diverse and inclusive culture enables employees to bring their unique selves to work and be proud of doing so.

What We Do...

We’re a team that loves technology but understands that hoteliers just want things to be simple. Since 2006, we’ve been innovating our world-leading hotel commerce platform to help accommodation owners find and book more guests online—quickly and simply.

We’ve helped everyone from boutique hotels to big chains, enabling travelers to book igloos, cabins, castles, holiday parks, campsites, pubs, resorts, Airbnbs, and everything in between.

Today, we’re the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, supporting 56,000 hotels in 150+ countries, with over 140 million reservations processed by SiteMinder’s technology every year.

About the Engineering Manager Role...

Reporting to the engineering director, you will drive the technical execution in line with business objectives while ensuring the development of your team and culture within your designated portfolio.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be capable in the areas of people, leadership, planning, delivery, stakeholder engagement, and influencing. Pairing with product managers, this role will work with engineering and product leadership to shape, roadmap, and enable robust planning and delivery, while also contributing to broader initiatives across the engineering organization.

What You’ll Do...

• Work closely with engineering and product leaders to set the roadmap, goals, priorities, and workflow for the flagship portfolio of the company

• Drive the delivery of roadmap items and projects

• Build and lead technical teams to work effectively in a collaborative environment, establishing successful ways of working with both remote and distributed resources and teams

• Drive high-performing software engineer teams, develop, and coach engineers through regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback sessions, perform performance management (including managing underperformance), and lead effective performance reviews

• Recruit and onboard new technical team members

• Invest in teams’ professional growth by identifying development opportunities, offering coaching, and providing pathways for career progression

• Ensure a consistent approach to engineering practices and delivery methodologies

• Contribute to wider engineering initiatives

• Ensure high-quality software is delivered by your teams

• Enable productivity by removing roadblocks, delegating, and escalating to foster an environment

What You Have...

• Experience fostering strong engagement and collaboration, including building strong relationships, promoting team collaboration, recognizing and rewarding achievements, and encouraging feedback

• Experience leading and managing technical teams in a software/SAAS environment

• Demonstrated experience leading technically complex projects

• Experience in hiring, evaluating the performance, and developing the skills and careers of software engineers

• Experience implementing reliable and efficient processes to accelerate software development and improve quality

• Experience driving automation, efficiency, and AI engineering tooling

• In-depth understanding of agile software development and methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira and Confluence)

• Competent level knowledge of project and change management principles and methodologies, including scope, timeline, and budgets

• Experience with geographically distributed teams and international experience would be highly advantageous. Understanding and demandable experience of high-volume, real-time systems would be highly regarded

Our Perks & Benefits...

- Mental health and well-being initiatives

- Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy

- Flexibility to work in a Hybrid model (3 days in-office)

- Paid birthday, study, and volunteering leave every year

- Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations

- Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and grow