Engineering Manager

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

OAG is a leading data platform for the global travel industry offering an industry - first single source for supply, demand, and pricing data.  

We empower the global travel industry with high-quality, relevant datasets covering the whole journey from planning to customer experience.  

Headquartered in the UK, with operations in the USA, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan, China, and Lithuania. For more information visit www.oag.com 

ABOUT THE TEAM:

You will lead a diverse team of 4-6 multi-skilled Software Engineers and SDETs in Lithuania and UK, primarily tasked with the development and maintenance of status data ingestion mechanisms and migration to Databricks structured data streaming. Our initiative is targeted towards the implementation of a platform based on industry standards and best practices, thus ensuring crucial enablement of OAG’s core business. Our focus is on the near-real-time flight status data ingestion, processing, and aggregation.

YOU WILL:

• Lead a high-performing engineering team by attracting, growing, and retaining talent while fostering a results-oriented, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment.
• Drive execution and delivery by managing scope, roadmaps, priorities, and trade-offs in alignment with product and organizational business goals and OKRs
• Partner with tech leads and senior engineers to maintain technical health and engineering excellence, including strong quality standards and implementation of best practices.
• Manage performance and support career growth through clear expectations, effective 1:1s, regular coaching, feedback, and performance reviews.
• Translate organizational and product objectives into actionable team plans and measurable outcomes, tracking progress and health using qualitative and quantitative signals.
• Coordinate across functions (product, engineering, data, infrastructure, and beyond) to ensure alignment on ownership, dependencies, and priorities, surfacing and escalating unresolved misalignment or ambiguity.
• Drive continuous improvement of team practices, workflows, and rituals to increase efficiency and sustainability, proactively minimizing single points of failure through resilient ownership.
• Contribute to organizational growth through hiring, onboarding, leveling, and cross-team initiatives, including helping to share knowledge and improve engineering practices across the wider organization.
• Lead one of the most important evolutionary initiatives in the flight status value stream over the last couple of years.

ESSENTIAL: 

• Solid hands-on software engineering experience from design to production delivery and maintenance – Plan, Build & Run. 
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages (C# or Python preferred) and principles.
• Experience working with at least one cloud provider (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Good software architecture skills, ability to design complex systems from the ground up with functional and non-functional requirements in mind.
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performance engineering teams with a focus on inclusivity, team cohesion, trust, and accountability.
• Customer-centric mindset and strong ownership for results, impact, and continuous improvement. Data-informed approach to decision making.
• Exposure to operational excellence practices (incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement loops). 

DESIRABLE: 

• Experience working in a data-intensive, platform, or SaaS environment. Familiarity with engineering practices for reliability and maintainability at scale.
  
• Familiarity with common technologies in our ecosystem (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, etc.).

WE WILL OFFER YOU: 

• Opportunity to work with passionate individuals at the intersection of technology and the global travel industry.
• Company-provided free lunch every day.
• A modern office in a convenient location, with flexible working arrangements that allow remote work or office attendance.
  
• An attractive compensation and benefits package, including private health insurance and company bonus scheme.
• Voluntary participation in a company-supported retirement scheme
• A generous annual leave policy that grows with each year of service, plus a day off during your birthday month.
  
• Work remotely from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year.

We will ensure that the exact salary offered to you will be based on your qualifications, competencies, professional experience, and requirements for the corresponding job function (starting from 5000 EUR gross per month).

OAG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We ensure all applicants are considered for employment without discrimination.