About us
Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers including Google Maps and Booking.com .
We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel, backed by leading venture capital investors including TQ Ventures, Lightrock, Creandum, and Northzone, and are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Following our recent $80m Series C funding, we are ready to push beyond.
The opportunity
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Search team . The role entails contributing to the product & technical domains of excellence in the main API product that enables large retailers to seamlessly purchase tickets from bus & rail carriers worldwide.
This is a highly skilled, senior engineering team operating in a highly complex, high-throughput, and low-latency domain.
You will be stepping into an area where performance and cost-efficiency are critical, and your biggest challenge will be technical and strategic. With our platform scaling rapidly, your mission is to prepare our architecture for 10x growth. We need a hands-on leader who still fundamentally thinks of themselves as an Engineer, capable of diving deep into the technical weeds while steering the domain's business goals.
What you will do:
• Manage, lead, and support an experienced team of engineers, providing coaching, alignment, and performance management.
• Take ownership of domain health, ensuring our high-throughput, low-latency systems are robust, scalable, and consistently meeting performance goals.
• Drive profitability and cost optimisation, specifically tackling architectural challenges to scale our system 10x without allowing our current infrastructure and storage costs to multiply exponentially.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, staying close to the code, system design, and architecture in a highly complex problem space.
Workplace: Berlin & hybrid / EU & Remote
We are a remote-first company with teams located around the Globe. Also, the HQ office is in Berlin, where the team often meets.
Who you are:
• You are an experienced people leader who has successfully managed and supported senior engineering teams.
• You think of yourself as an Engineer at heart; you are highly technical, hands-on, and capable of understanding and guiding deeply complex system architectures.
• You have a proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• You bring a strong business and resource-optimization mindset, with the ability to make strategic architectural decisions that directly impact company profitability and infrastructure costs.
• You have strong programming experience in any modern backend language and are excited to lead new development in Rust or Go. You are also adaptable and willing to learn.
• You show extreme ownership over your domain's health and are comfortable operating in an environment where technical challenges far outweigh basic language-level syntax issues.
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.
What you can expect:
• Make a global impact. Help shape how millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.
• Own your work. Take responsibility from day one and see the direct impact of your contributions.
• Build with the best tools. We move fast, continuously evolve our tech stack, and invest in modern, efficient solutions.
• Work with industry leaders. Our partners include Booking.com , Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
• Grow with exceptional people. Join an international team that will challenge, support, and inspire you every day.
• Work your way. Enjoy flexible and remote-friendly working options, relocation opportunities, and plenty of room to grow.
Our hiring team for this role:
Your Talent Partner (TP) and point of contact is Lorena Rebenciuc , and the Hiring Manager (HM) is Bartosz Pranczke .
For any queries, contact your Talent Partner at ( Come join us!
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