Engineering Manager, Full Stack

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️ That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role
(Hybrid)

As Engineering Manager for Stargate, you’ll lead a front-end–focused, full-stack squad within our Audience Experience group — a team building some of the most visible and frequently used experiences on Skyscanner.

Stargate owns the web login and authentication journey, along with a set of post-login experiences that help travellers get more value once they’re signed in. It’s a product-facing space where small changes can make a big difference, and where engineering, design and experimentation come together daily.

This role is about setting direction, supporting people, and keeping the team moving smoothly — creating an environment where great engineers can do their best work, together.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading a product-facing squad: You’ll manage a team of front-end-heavy, full-stack engineers building user experiences millions of travellers interact with every day.
• Creating clarity and momentum: You’ll help the team prioritise well, navigate trade-offs, and deliver iteratively without losing sight of quality.
• Partnering closely with Product and Design: You’ll work hand-in-hand with your product manager and designers to shape ideas into thoughtful, usable experiences.
• Supporting experimentation: You’ll help the team run and learn from experiments that improve how travellers log in, stay engaged, and move through our platform.
• Fostering a healthy team culture: You’ll build trust, psychological safety and clear ownership — so people feel confident taking initiative and responsibility.
• Developing engineers: You’ll coach and support engineers through feedback, career conversations and growth moments, big and small.
• Keeping close to the work: You’ll stay connected to what the team is building, how it’s built, and where they might need support or course correction.

About you

• Engineering background: You bring a strong front-end engineering history, with experience in React, TypeScript and JavaScript, and the confidence that comes from having built and shipped real products.
• Comfortable leading engineers: You’ve moved into engineering management and enjoy supporting others to do great work — through coaching, context-setting and clear communication.
• Product-aware: You care about user experience and understand how engineering choices shape what travellers see, feel and trust.
• Thoughtful and pragmatic: You balance empathy with expectations, and you know when to listen, when to guide, and when to step in.
• Collaborative by nature: You work well across disciplines and enjoy partnering with product, design and platform teams.
• Curious and reflective: You like learning — from your team, from outcomes, and from things that don’t quite land first time.
• Grounded: You bring calm, clarity and a sense of perspective, even when things get busy.

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.