HolidayCheck AG

Head of Engineering - Frontend (all genders)

HolidayCheck AG  •  Onsite  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

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.

Your Tasks

  • Lead and develop distributed frontend engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, and intentional career growth
  • Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver high-quality, user-centric featuresin a timely manner
  • Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes to increase speed, quality, and team productivity
  • Ensure strong alignment across Product, Design, and Engineering to create cohesive customer experiences
  • Define and track clear KPIs to measure engineering impact and link outcomes to business value
  • Promote a culture of ownership, inclusion, excellence, trust, and continuous feedback
  • Define and uphold frontend service-levelobjectives(SLOs) for reliability and performance
  • Plan team capacity, lead hiring efforts, and scale the team in line with product roadmap needs

What you bring

  • Strong technical foundation with deep frontendexpertiseand platform experience
  • Proventrack recordin engineering leadership, including team management and organizational scaling
  • Strong product mindset with the ability to translate business goals into scalable, sustainable technical solutions
  • Experience leading distributed engineering teams across locations and time zones
  • Operational clarity with a focus on delivery predictability and system reliability, combined with strategic foresight
  • Empathetic, clear, and outcome-driven leadership style that enables and empowers others to succeed
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate transparently and effectively across functions and organizational boundaries

Our “All Inclusive Package” for you

Workation & Flexibility

  • 20 daysof workation within the EU – work where others go on vacation
  • We combine in-person collaboration with remote focus time. For People Managers, we value strong on-site presence and expect regular office time, typically around three days per week.
  • Flexible working hours – early bird or night owl?We’vegot you covered!
  • 28 daysof vacation for your wellbeing
  • 40-hourwork week is standard at HolidayCheck

Development & Culture 

  • Extensive internal & external training opportunities
  • Diverse corporate culture with over 30 nationalities
  • From newbie to champion: structured onboarding for a smooth start

Perks & Appreciation 

  • Anniversaryperksin the form of extra vacation days or travel subsidies
  • Your choice of hardware – Mac, Windows, or Linux
  • Free parking or public transport subsidy

Work-Life-Balance & Wellbeing 

  • Childcare subsidy for a family-friendly balance
  • Up to 300 CHFannualsubsidyfor gym memberships
  • Healthy & delicious mealsin the cafeteria orfrom our in-house chef Evelyn
  • Daycare subsidy forall ofour parents

And many more!

Ready to join the HolidayCheck adventure? Then grab your suitcase full of talent and send us your application!

HolidayCheck AG

About HolidayCheck AG

Making vacations better – that is the vision of HolidayCheck, the most far-reaching leisure travel platform in the German-speaking region. Transparency, quality, and innovation drive the online booking and review portal to provide travelers with the best holiday experience. The foundation is built on more than 12 million hotel reviews, its own online travel agency, as well as offers from 66 tour operators and other tourism providers. In the online travel agency test by Stiftung Warentest (issue 1/2024), HolidayCheck received an overall rating of “Good” (2.1) and was the only online travel portal to be rated “Very good” (1.1) in the category “Booking and Canceling.” Since 2021, HolidayCheck Car Rental has also offered suitable rental car options on the platform. Travelers can also find plenty of useful information and inspiration in the travel forum with over 4.9 million members and in the HolidayCheck online magazine. Furthermore, HolidayCheck has been actively committed for years to fighting review fraud and has founded the initiative Together Against Fake Reviews. HolidayCheck AG is a subsidiary of the HolidayCheck Group, was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Bottighofen, Switzerland, near the German border city of Constance.

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Bottighofen, CH
Year Founded
2003
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