Engineering Manager - Retail Frontend

About HolidayCheck

Start your very own journey – with HolidayCheck
At HolidayCheck, everything revolves around making vacations better – together. We're not only enabling the best time of the year for our travelers, but also creating an inspiring work atmosphere for our HolidayCheckers in our modern office in Bottighofen (Switzerland).

We live our company values every day: as #TeamHolidayCheck, we build trust, take ownership, and love what we do – all for the perfect holiday experience.

As Engineering Manager - Retail Frontend (all genders) at HolidayCheck, you will lead with a focus on people, process, and frontend product excellence. You’ll foster a high‑performance environment where frontend teams build delightful, reliable, and scalable travel experiences. By combining technical leadership with a product‑oriented mindset, you will enable engineers to deliver user‑facing features that have real business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop distributed frontend engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, and career growth
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to ensure timely and high‑quality delivery of user‑facing features
• Continuously improve engineering processes to enhance speed, quality, and team productivity
• Drive alignment across product, design, and engineering to deliver cohesive customer experiences
• Define and monitor engineering impact through measurable KPIs linked to business outcomes
• Promote a culture of ownership, inclusion, excellence, and continuous feedback
• Define and uphold service‑level objectives (SLOs) for frontend reliability and performance
• Plan team capacity, drive hiring, and scale the team to meet product roadmap needs

Requirements

• Solid background in engineering, ideally with deep experience in frontend technologies and platforms
• Proven track record in engineering leadership roles, including team management and organizational development
• Strong product mindset and ability to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions
• Experience leading distributed teams across different locations or time zones
• Operational awareness with a focus on delivery predictability and system reliability
• Empathetic and outcome‑driven leadership style, focused on enabling others to succeed
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functional and organizational boundaries

Benefits – “All Inclusive Package”

• Workation & Flexibility: 20 days of workation within the EU; 60/40 hybrid model (two office days, three remote days); flexible working hours
• Development & Culture: Extensive internal & external training opportunities; diverse corporate culture with over 30 nationalities; structured onboarding
• Perks & Appreciation: Anniversary perks (extra vacation days or travel subsidies); choice of hardware – Mac, Windows, or Linux; free parking or public transport subsidy
• Work‑Life‑Balance & Wellbeing: Childcare subsidy; location‑based gym membership or subsidy (EGYM Wellpass / Hansefit); healthy meals in the cafeteria or from in‑house chef Evelyn