Engineering Manager, Pricing & Revenue

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, Pricing & Revenue based in Italy. As Engineering Manager, Pricing & Revenue, you’ll lead the development of core systems that power hotel distribution, pricing, and revenue optimization across a global travel technology platform. You’ll combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering, shaping architecture and guiding a team responsible for systems with a direct impact on commercial performance. You’ll tackle complex backend challenges, from processing searches across approximately 200 hotel suppliers to building a sophisticated pricing engine and automated rebooking capabilities. Working closely with Product and Trading, you’ll turn business opportunities into scalable, reliable technical solutions. With a small team, minimal bureaucracy, and significant autonomy, you’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful decisions, mentor engineers, and see the measurable impact of your work. Accountabilities - Lead the technical direction, architecture, reliability, and delivery of the Pricing & Revenue engineering domain. - Design and develop a sophisticated pricing engine that balances supplier availability, demand, competitiveness, distribution, and profit margins. - Build and improve high-performance hotel search systems capable of handling synchronous queries across approximately 200 suppliers while maintaining predictable latency and reliability. - Develop new trading capabilities, including automated rebooking workflows, initially supporting internal operations and potentially evolving into customer-facing products. - Improve hotel search availability and booking fulfilment, ensuring customers can successfully complete the reservations they initiate. - Remain hands-on with architecture, code, system design, and production troubleshooting while guiding the team's technical execution. - Lead, mentor, and grow a small engineering team, supporting recruitment, technical development, and high-quality delivery.

- Collaborate closely with Product and Trading to translate complex commercial challenges into technical solutions with measurable business outcomes. - Take ownership of engineering decisions and production systems, continuously improving scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency. - Identify opportunities to simplify processes, move quickly, and deliver improvements with minimal organizational overhead. Requirements - Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams while remaining actively involved in architecture, coding, and production systems. - Strong backend engineering expertise, including substantial experience with Go. - Deep knowledge of distributed systems, high-volume APIs, latency optimization, concurrency, and reliability engineering. - Experience designing, building, or improving marketplace, trading, pricing, or optimization systems involving both supply and demand. - Understanding of how pricing, inventory, distribution, and fulfilment interact within a marketplace environment. - Ability to translate complex commercial objectives into robust technical architectures and engineering initiatives that deliver measurable results. - Experience working with systems that manage real-world inventory, such as travel, mobility, delivery, or e-commerce platforms, is particularly valuable. - Strong technical judgment and the ability to make architectural decisions independently while balancing immediate business needs with long-term scalability. - Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to align engineering work with product and commercial priorities. - Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, limited processes, and a high degree of individual accountability.