Summary: This is a hands-on leadership role for an Associate Data Engineering Manager to build and shape a foundational capability within RoomPriceGenie's new Market Data team, focusing on acquiring, structuring, and scaling external data sources. Highlights: 1. Hands-on leadership role in a newly formed, foundational team 2. Opportunity to build and shape a data platform with real ownership 3. Focus on technical excellence, mentorship, and high-performance culture **About RoomPriceGenie** Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie is dedicated to helping hoteliers around the globe achieve optimal pricing. We understand that many small hotels face challenges with digitalization, making their operations increasingly complex and often resulting in lost revenue. This is where we come in! We have developed a powerful solution that enables hotels to set the right prices in just seconds. Our state\-of\-the\-art algorithm analyzes both internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates. With customers spanning the globe—from the USA and Canada to Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the UK—RoomPriceGenie has made a meaningful impact in the hospitality industry, and our clients love the results. Now, we are excited to expand our customer base and spread the word about how we can support hoteliers in optimizing their pricing strategies. We invite you to join us on this journey! We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds to enrich our team and drive innovation. **Why RoomPriceGenie?** ----------------------- We're a company that takes both culture and product seriously, and we have the recognition to back it up: **Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech (2026\)** and **Best Revenue Management Software (2026\)**. We operate at real scale, powering pricing for thousands of hotels worldwide on a modern data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Dagster, dbt, AWS). We give engineers real ownership and autonomy, with support always there when you need it. This role is fully remote within Europe, and you'll be helping disrupt a traditional industry while making a tangible impact on how hotels run their business. **Your Role** ------------- As an Associate Data Engineering Manager for the newly formed Market Data team at RoomPriceGenie, you will have a unique opportunity to build and shape a foundational capability within the company. This team is being created to centralise and professionalise how we acquire, structure and scale external data sources across the organisation. What started as distributed side initiatives across multiple teams will now become a dedicated, scalable and best\-practice\-driven data platform. This is a hands\-on leadership role, ideal for someone who has had some experience managing engineers and is eager to continue growing their management craft. You’ll continue to be technical (spending some of your time coding, reviewing or pairing) while driving clarity, focus and technical excellence across the team. You’ll partner closely with Product and senior engineering leadership to define the roadmap, establish strong technical foundations and create a high\-performing, empowered team culture. **Your Responsibilities** ------------------------- * Build, lead and develop a team of backend and data engineers. * Run regular 1:1s, provide feedback and actively mentor engineers in both technical and professional growth. * Create a strong team identity, ownership mindset and high\-performance culture from day one. * Hire and onboard new engineers as the team scales. * Drive the design of scalable, maintainable and cost\-efficient data acquisition and transformation systems. * Establish strong engineering best practices in system design, testing, observability and documentation. * Improve and modernise existing data workflows by turning ad\-hoc initiatives into structured, production\-grade systems. * Ensure the team builds with long\-term scalability and reliability in mind. * Act as a reference point for data engineering best practices across all teams. * Collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers to ensure alignment and shared standards. * Contribute to architectural decisions that impact company\-wide data strategy. * Promote a culture of data quality, clear ownership and measurable outcomes. * Stay technically involved through code reviews, architectural discussions and occasional coding. * Support engineers in solving complex system design challenges. **Your Profile** ---------------- * Experience leading engineers in a technical or team lead capacity. * Strong coaching mindset, you enjoy growing people, not just systems. * Comfortable building structure in a new or evolving environment. * High ownership mentality with the ability to balance autonomy and accountability. * Solid experience as a Software or Data Engineer, with production system ownership. * Strong experience in Python (4\+ years). * Experience building and maintaining production\-grade ETL/ELT pipelines in modern cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift). * Strong data modeling skills (analytics\-ready schemas, performance optimisation, testing and documentation practices). * Experience with orchestrated data pipelines (e.g. Dagster, Airflow or similar). * Strong system design and architecture skills with a focus on scalability and maintainability. * Analytical and structured thinker with a strong focus on long\-term architecture. * Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning it into clarity. * Pragmatic but quality\-driven. * Collaborative and low\-ego, you build trust across teams. * Fluent in English and based in the European time zone (UTC\+0 / UTC\+2\). **Nice to Have** ---------------- * Experience running regular 1:1s and supporting performance conversations. * Previous formal people management experience. * Experience building or restructuring data platforms from scratch. * Experience scaling engineering teams in a high\-growth environment. * Hands\-on experience with dbt (modeling, testing, documentation). * Experience modernising legacy data pipelines. * Familiarity with Django or FastAPI ecosystems. * Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Sentry). * Experience working with distributed task queues (e.g. Celery \& RabbitMQ). * Strong understanding of cost\-aware architecture in data\-intensive systems. **What We Offer at RoomPriceGenie** At RoomPriceGenie, we don’t just offer jobs; we offer an adventure! Join us in an exciting startup atmosphere where you can grow your career while changing the world for tens of thousands of independent hoteliers. Our global and diverse team is fueled by passion and a shared mission. We thrive in a culture that’s all about transparency, respect, and making a real impact together. Here’s what you can expect when you become part of our Genie family: * **Remote\-First Model:** You can work flexibly from anywhere. At the same time, we **support co\-working** and you’re of course welcome to work from our **offices in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney** whenever you like. * **One Team, One Vision, One Goal:** We’re in this together! Our Genies are laser\-focused on our mission, collaborating to make magic happen. It’s no wonder we score a stellar 9\.3 from our team members! * **Epic Team Gatherings:** Every year, we bring our global crew together for a week of networking, brainstorming, and fun. Plus, enjoy regular hangouts in our offices to keep the camaraderie alive. * **Growth and Development:** We’re all about lifelong learning! Level up your skills with personal and professional development opportunities. You’ll even snag up to three extra days off each year to focus on your growth. * **5 Years? 5 Weeks!** Stick with us, and we’ll reward your loyalty. After five years, you’ll earn an incredible five weeks of bonus vacation time to recharge and explore the world. * **Birthday Celebrations:** It’s your day, so take it off! Celebrate your birthday the way you want, guilt\-free. * **Flexible Hours:** We get it—life happens! We offer flexible working hours to help you balance your work and personal life seamlessly. * **Wellbeing Matters:** Your mental health is a top priority. Every Genie gets access to Headspace, the leading meditation app, to help you cultivate a happier, healthier, and more zen life. * **BetterHelp Support:** We also offer **BetterHelp**, a professional online therapy and counseling platform, giving you additional support whenever you need it. *We kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from reaching out regarding this vacancy. Thank you for your understanding.*