Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

Join Apaleo and Shape the Future of Hospitality Tech!

Apaleo is the world's most open, API-first property management platform powering the next generation of hospitality operations. Its modular, AI-powered infrastructure enables hoteliers to customise their tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless, personalised guest experiences, powered by best-in-class apps and autonomous AI agents that adapt to every stay.

If you want to lead a team that owns a product with direct, visible revenue impact, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

Apaleo Pay is our payments product. It complements our property management platform, so your team's work shows up directly in revenue. It runs as its own service, so the team owns what it builds and what it runs.
We are migrating Apaleo Pay to Adyen's newer platform and taking on more responsibility for payments, including security and resilience. Beyond the migration, there is room to grow the product and win more customers.
This is a hybrid role. You spend at least 30% of your time as a hands-on engineer with your team, and the rest leading people, delivery and process. You also join our engineering leadership team.

What You'll Be Up To

• Help every engineer do their best work: build their skills, find their next step and grow without being forced down a single path.
• Build a team that works as one unit, where everyone feels included heard.
• Earn the trust of experienced engineers and coach people at different stages of their careers.
• Work with the Product Manager to deliver real customer value: shape scope, estimate honestly and make sure work gets finished.
• Own the team's way of working and keep improving it.
• Help the team make technical decisions without over-analysis. You facilitate; you don't decide alone.
• Guide the team through the Adyen platform migration, with a strong focus on security and resilience.
• Lead hiring, onboarding and team composition as the team grows.
• Champion modern engineering practices: continuous delivery, DORA metrics, a blameless incident culture and an AI-driven development pipeline.
• Bring company-wide engineering initiatives into the team and bring the team's needs back out.

What You'll Bring

• First leadership experience — formal or lateral.
• Empathy, genuine interest in people and the confidence to give and act upon feedback.
• Clear, target-oriented and appreciative Communication. Professional English (C1).
• A solid grasp of digital product development principles: Agile, Lean, DevOps, continuous delivery and how an idea travels from customer insight to impact.
• Comfort with being both a leader and a builder, and clarity on how you balance the two.
• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset and a love of learning. You use AI in your own work and have a view on how it changes engineering teams.
• Senior-level software engineering experience on a modern web technology stack.
• Experience with distributed systems, message-driven architecture and the cloud.

What We Offer

Culture & Growth

• A Diverse & International Team: Work alongside passionate professionals from over 20 nationalities, bringing unique cultural perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences to shape the future of hospitality tech.
• Growth & Development: As we scale, so do your opportunities. You'll benefit from 360° feedback reviews, a dedicated learning budget, and plenty of chances to take on more responsibility. Our evolving career framework ensures you have increasing opportunities to learn new skills, advance your career, and make an impact.
• Autonomy & Ownership: Great ideas can come from anywhere. We empower you to take responsibility, make decisions, and contribute directly in an environment built on trust, transparency, and collaboration.
• Shape the Future of Hospitality Tech: Be part of a fast-growing scale-up transforming the hospitality industry. From day one, your work drives real impact and you'll have the freedom to bring your ideas to life.
• Competitive & Fair Compensation: We believe great work deserves great pay. Our salaries are competitive and guided by benchmarking data to ensure fairness across all roles and teams. We make sure to recognize and reward performance and contribution.

Nice to Have

• Genuine interest in payments, or experience with payment service providers or fintech.

What We Offer

• An International Team: Work alongside colleagues from over 20 nationalities.
• Growth and Development: 360° feedback reviews, an evolving career framework and an annual learning budget of €1,000+.
• Autonomy and Ownership: Great ideas can come from anywhere. We trust you to make decisions and contribute directly.
• Real Impact: Join a fast-growing scale-up transforming hospitality. From day one, your work drives real impact.
• Fair Pay: Competitive salaries guided by benchmarking data, with recognition for performance and contribution.
• Flexible Work: Work from home, the office or a hybrid mix. We focus on results, not clocking hours.
• Time Off and Wellbeing: 30 days of vacation and an EGYM Wellpass membership.
• Free Public Transport: A fully covered Deutschland Ticket for travel across Germany.
• Team Connection: Regular team dinners, company meetups and offsite events.

How you make an impact joining Apaleo: Joining Apaleo is more than taking on a role. It's about driving real change in the hospitality industry. Your contributions will directly shape our innovative platform, influence company-wide decisions and help redefine the future of hospitality tech. At Apaleo, your voice matters, your ideas are valued and your impact is tangible. Be part of a team where your work fuels progress, collaboration sparks innovation and growth is a shared journey.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and welcoming workplace. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Your personal data will be handled with the utmost care and in compliance with GDPR and relevant data protection regulations. We celebrate differences and believe that diversity enriches our team and drives innovation.