Engineering Manager

Overview

As Software Engineering Manager for Travel & Expense, you’ll lead a ~10-engineer squad building Spendesk’s travel and out-of-pocket expense experiences. You will partner with a PM, Product Designer, and tech leadership to set quarterly roadmaps and drive measurable outcomes across trips, bookings, expenses, and compliance. You’ll shape architecture, ensure reliability and security, and manage cross-team integrations with travel suppliers and the financial platform. This role blends people leadership with technical vision in an international, values-driven company.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible on-site and remote policy
• Latest Apple equipment
• Moka.care for wellbeing
• Office snacks
• Location-specific benefits including health insurance and wellness allowances
• Gym memberships

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of ~10 software engineers, including performance management, recruitment, and onboarding
• Set and deliver Travel & Expense roadmap with cross-functional partners in 2-week sprint cycles
• Improve customer experiences across travel, expense claims, and compliance areas
• Guide architecture and integrations with travel suppliers, payments, invoices, identity and security services
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, observability, SLOs, incident response, and production ownership
• Build an autonomous, customer-focused team delivering measurable outcomes and improving ways of working
• Support platform migration to service-based architecture with hexagonal pattern

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading a cross-functional engineering team (full-stack and mobile)
• Ability to set objectives, manage delivery against KPIs/SLOs, and drive performance
• Strong focus on architecture, reliability, security, and production readiness
• Experience with integrations across travel/domain systems (suppliers, payments, accounting)
• Comfort with product-driven delivery, collaboration with PM/Design, and stakeholder communication
• Experience with platform migrations and modern architectural patterns

• leadership
• customer obsession
• ownership
• software architecture and system design
• observability and incident response
• SLOs and reliability engineering

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