Engineering Manager

About Digis
Digis is a European IT company with 200+ specialists delivering complex SaaS products, enterprise solutions, and AI-powered platforms worldwide. We ensure transparency, stability, and professional growth opportunities for all our team members.

About the Project
AI-powered tourism platform for tour operators, OTAs, and travel agency chains. An entirely new way to book, experience, and visualize holiday packages is now available — designed for a new generation of travelers. It’s the only platform in the industry that allows users to seamlessly combine any experiences (such as festivals, concerts, retreats, and more) with flights and hotels, booking everything directly with maximum convenience and zero hassle.
Project country and stage: Germany, ongoing
Team: 9 Engineers (BE, FE), Data Scientist, CTO

Project Advantages:

• Join a team that operates 2–3 years ahead of the industry curve, without the burden of outdated or rigid engineering practices.
• High-autonomy, high-trust environment — enjoy the influence of a leadership position without being bogged down by bureaucracy.
• Make a significant, visible impact — shape the culture, processes, hiring, team structure, and overall platform direction.
• You meaningfully reduce the CTO’s operational load, which translates into real ownership and responsibility.
• Work in a rapidly growing domain at the intersection of Travel Tech and AI.

• Collaborate with a top-tier engineering team — all members are senior-level and highly independent.

   

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing team well-being, performance, and professional growth of 9+ engineers
• Leading hiring efforts and scaling the team to 16 engineers
• Coordinating daily activities and ensuring cross-pod alignment
• Tracking project delivery to ensure on-time, high-quality outcomes
• Removing obstacles and fostering team autonomy
• Translating the CTO’s priorities into actionable context for engineers
• Preserving a high-trust, low-bureaucracy culture as the team grows
• Making operational decisions, including task allocation and pod structure

• Providing weekly updates and reports to the CTO

   

Must-haves:

• Managing engineering teams (10-20+ engineers, senior teams preferred)
• Servant leader mindset — You enable and remove blockers, you don’t control or micromanage
• Startup experience — You’ve worked in fast-moving, chaotic environments where things change quickly
• Comfortable with AI-augmented development — You understand AI coding tools are the future, even if you don’t code yourself
• Scaling experience — You’ve grown teams from 10 to 30+ while maintaining culture
• Upper intermediate level of English

Nice-to-haves:

• B2B SaaS or integration/API product experience
• Travel/tourism industry knowledge
• Hired and managed engineers from multiple countries/cultures