Engineering Manager

Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

Backed by $365M in funding, we’re expanding fast and building new capabilities like Trust Accounting to set the standard in our industry.

**About the Role**:
We’re looking for a delivery-focused Engineering Manager to build and lead our first Trust Accounting team. This team will design and deliver a financial subsystem that property managers can trust - accurate, compliant, and reliable. You’ll be responsible not only for delivery but also for establishing a culture where correctness and accountability are paramount. This is a greenfield opportunity where you’ll influence architecture, processes, and talent from day one.

**What you’ll do**:

- Build and lead a product engineering team (5-7 engineers) focused on financial correctness and compliance.
- Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of the trust accounting subsystem with secure, scalable, auditable, and maintainable architecture.
- Collaborate deeply with Product, Finance, Legal, and other Engineering teams to align on goals and ensure execution.
- Establish and refine processes to improve delivery speed, system reliability, and team autonomy.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of precision, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Establish engineering practices that emphasize quality, resilience, and observability.
- Contribute technical context to discussions and decisions while fostering transparency and accountability.
- 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineering Manager or in a similar position (CTO, Head of Engineering Department, Director of Engineering) with direct people management responsibilities.
- A strong foundation in software engineering - you don't need to write production code daily, but you're able to engage in technical and architectural discussions.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-oriented environment, ideally within SaaS or platform businesses.
- Ability to drive execution: aligning team goals, managing delivery timelines, and removing blockers.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and creating an environment where people can grow and thrive.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in distributed/remote settings.
- Comfortable working in agile environments with fast-moving priorities and cross-functional teams.
- Fluent English.
- Familiarity with fintech and accounting is a plus, **but not required**.

**What success looks like**:

- The trust accounting subsystem is delivered reliably, accurately, trusted by customers and regulators, and integrated seamlessly into the Hostaway platform.
- The team is high-performing, engaged, and growing under your leadership.
- Compliance and financial correctness are built into system design and delivery processes.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Legal, Product, and Engineering runs smoothly.

**What we offer**:

- ** Competitive Compensation**: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
- ** 100% Remote**: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).
- ** Equity**: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.
- ** Values-Driven Leadership**: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
- ** Professional Growth**: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
- ** Annual Paid Leave**: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
- ** Geographic Specific Benefits**: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
- ** Dynamic Team Culture**: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).