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? 🚀
Job details
● 💼 Engineering
● 📍 Belgium
● 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid
What you will do
As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team that owns end-to-end a set of data domains within our large-scale ingestion and transformation engine, unifying the world's hospitality data into a strategic high-fidelity semantic layer. Your team builds and maintains complex data pipelines handling large data streams. This is a high-impact role where you will see your team's work directly translate into real-world applications that impact hotels 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 data 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.
- Drive the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, improvements and scaling of the streaming and batch data pipelines that ingest and transform the massive volume of data powering our products.
- You are at the forefront of AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our organization, way of working and platform. You'll champion an AI-first development culture within the engineering team.
- Identify, estimate, plan and deliver continuous improvements with the team in data quality, system stability, observability, data pipeline performance, latency, and reliability.
- Collaborate closely with product, other engineering teams, support and business teams.
About our team
You'll be leading a skilled team of data engineers who own a number of data domains and integration types that feed our platform. You are responsible end-to-end for the ingestion and complex transformations for these domains, that turn massive streams of structured and less structured data into data products with actionable insights 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 track record of managing engineering teams, with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineers and driving their technical and professional growth.
- You come from a strong hands-on background in data engineering, with deep experience in ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, complex data transformations, and data modelling.
- 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 architectural projects into clear, manageable tasks, and accurately estimating effort.
- You are a forward-thinking builder who views AI as a core component of modern architecture. 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 technical architectures, structure, tooling, support and other processes.
- Professional proficiency in Python for large-scale data processing and pipeline development.
- Strong knowledge of data cloud technologies, data streaming systems (like Google Cloud Pub/Sub or Kafka), and cloud database solutions (like BigQuery, Spanner, Snowflake, or Databricks).
- Fluency in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
We welcome
- Experience building integrations with third-party APIs and external data sources.
- Experience within the hospitality technology sector or similar industries (e.g. airline industry).
Technologies you will work with
Python, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes.
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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Skills Required
- Experience managing engineering teams and coaching and mentoring engineers
- Strong hands-on experience in data engineering, including ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, complex data transformations, and data modeling
- Professional proficiency in Python for large-scale data processing and pipeline development
- Strong knowledge of data cloud technologies, data streaming systems, and cloud database solutions
- Experience with technologies including Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, and Kubernetes
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Fluency in English
- Interest or experience working with LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools
- Experience building integrations with third-party APIs and external data sources
- Experience in hospitality technology or a similar industry
What We Do
Lighthouse is the leading commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. We transform complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. Trusted by over 70,000 hotels in 185 countries, and supported by 700+ employees, Lighthouse is the only solution that provides real-time hotel and short-term rental data in a single platform. We strive to deliver the best possible experience with unmatched customer service. We consider our clients as true partners — their success is our success. How can Lighthouse help you? Rate Insight Track competitor pricing to maximize revenue Market Insight Accurately predict future market demand Parity Insight Identify and solve parity issues portfolio wide Benchmark Insight Effectively navigate competitive performance trends Distribution Insight Optimize distribution channel performance Destination Insight Enrich your strategy with short-term rental insights Business Intelligence Monitor, optimize, and report on your performance Pricing Manager Boost revenue with AI-driven room price recommendations Channel Manager AI-powered channel management that transforms pricing and distribution for independent hotels Hotel Data Solutions Bespoke data sets to elevate your commercial strategy Short-Term Rental Data Solutions Power your short-term rental strategy with custom insights Revenue Management Services Master commercial strategy with expert revenue support
