Head of Engineering - Frontend (all genders)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Bottighofen

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!

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About us

Let’s make holidays better – together!

HolidayCheck is one of Europe’s leading digital companies for holidaymakers. We bring together under one roof the hotel review and travel booking portal HolidayCheck, the tour operator HolidayCheck Reisen, and our rental car platform.

Our vision? Make holidays better! Our culture? Colorful, international, and diverse! Here, people with a wide range of skills and personalities come together to create an inspiring environment – full of ideas, learning opportunities, and team spirit. Sounds like you? Then join our team!