.The Company lastminute.Com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.Com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.De, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers' travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink". We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people. At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel. lastminute.Com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Job Description To support the growth of our business we are looking for a Software Engineering Manager. He/she will be responsible for growth and high performance of the software teams in a dedicated area of the product: Ensure the teams' efficiency and high quality work: enforce tech excellence, tech debt management and regular adjustment of processes and timelines in line with continuous improvement philosophy Has clear understanding of the business and the reference domain, and fosters the knowledge's growth among the team members, peers and stakeholders Manage the budget and external vendors Prioritise the issues and support the tech organisation in tackling them Foster alignment among people in the teams, with stakeholders or between teams and locations Communicate regularly about the plans, policies and procedures Promote the healthy growth of a common code base and common infrastructure Drive design and interactions at software architecture level Collect requirements with impacts on software architecture and infrastructure Work closely with Product Managers to manage project scope and ensure the technical deliverables are met Hire & retain talents according to company goals Set, follow up and measure teams' and individual performance