Job Description

Our Mission: Why Lighthouse?

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality’s most powerful AI platform. We take the world's largest hotel data network and transform it into real-time intelligence that drives action. We don't just deliver insights; we empower businesses to make decisions that move revenue.

With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, we are scaling at lightspeed. Our 850+ teammates across 35 countries aren't just building software—they are leveraging cutting-edge AI to help hoteliers be the first to act. Tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries trust Lighthouse to execute their commercial strategy, including every one of the top 15 global chains and thousands of independent hotels that consistently outperform their markets. With Lighthouse AI, the intelligence gets deeper. Decisions get smarter. Actions get faster. We help hoteliers be first to act.

Lighthouse Values: Our guiding light

We are Lumineers Our shared values keep us on a collaborative path fostering a cultural and customer centric environment

• Pursuit of greatness We’re innovators who care deeply about our customers’ success. Our team brings their best work, stays curious, and delivers excellence through attention to detail
• Meaningful work matters We make every moment count by knowing what to deliver, why it matters, and how it drives Lighthouse forward
• Elevate each other We don’t just work together - we grow together. What unites us is understanding each other as people and working toward shared goals

We’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀

● 💼 Engineering Team
● 📍 Belgium - Ghent
● 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid

What you will do

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team that builds and operates systems at scale within our platform. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will see your team's work directly translate into real-world applications that impact businesses worldwide. The role requires you to combine strong technical experience with operational and people management excellence.

Where you will have impact

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and long-term career growth.
• Be the technical guide the team can lean on for growing their technical careers and for collaborating on their technical work, while at the same time being strong with people, organization, structure, planning and driving delivery.
• (Help) the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, improvements and scaling of the systems your team owns.
• You will be at the forefront of our AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our platform. You'll not only build AI features for our customers but also champion an AI-first development culture within the engineering team.
• Identify, estimate, plan and deliver continuous improvements with the team in system quality, stability, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with product, other engineering teams, support and business teams.

About our team

You'll be leading a skilled team of engineers who build and maintain critical parts of our platform. The team works on technically challenging problems at scale, turning complex requirements into reliable, high-quality solutions that power our products for the hospitality industry.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

• You are an experienced people leader with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineers, driving their technical and professional growth.
• You have experience architecting, designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining complex software systems.
• You have a proactive, "can-do" attitude, viewing challenges as opportunities and inspiring a positive, solution-oriented mindset within your team.
• You excel at seeing the bigger picture, breaking down large projects into clear, manageable tasks, and accurately estimating effort.
• You are a forward-thinking builder who views AI as a core component of modern engineering. You have a proven interest (or experience) in working with LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools to ship higher-quality code, faster.
• You get energized from optimizing structure, tooling, processes and ways of working.
• While this is a leadership role, you come from a strong hands-on engineering background and can act as a technical guide for your team.
• Professional proficiency in Python or similar languages for building systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Fluency in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

We welcome

• Experience within the hospitality technology sector or similar industries (e.g. airline industry).
• Experience with data engineering (large-scale data processing and pipeline development), distributed systems, or high-throughput architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data cloud technologies, data streaming systems (like Kafka or Google Cloud Pub/Sub), and cloud database solutions (like BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks).

Technologies you will work with

Python, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes.

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Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is part of our culture. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please notify your recruiter.

Not ticking every box? No problem! We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you!

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