Engineering Manager - Connectivity
Nuitée | Enabling All Companies to Build Travel Solutions
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About the company
At Nuitée, we are building the API backbone for the global travel industry. Founded in 2017, Nuitée is on a mission to transform a fragmented travel ecosystem with simple, scalable, and API-first infrastructure—think “Stripe for Travel.”
By enabling seamless connectivity between hotels, OTAs, fintechs, super-apps, and businesses, some of which are entering the travel market for the first time, Nuitée empowers companies to deliver reliable travel products effortlessly. Our robust platform simplifies complex supplier networks, offering direct access to hotel inventory with better pricing, coverage, and technology.
With teams across the globe, including hubs in London, New York, San Francisco, Palma de Mallorca and Casablanca, Nuitée has grown into a global infrastructure provider trusted by industry leaders like Hopper, Expedia, Priceline, Google, and Uber.
Now backed by leading VCs and world-class investors including leaders from Booking.com, Stripe, and Shopify, Nuitée is positioned to redefine the B2B travel market, streamline operations for hotels, and enable new applications through cutting-edge APIs.
Nuitée is at the forefront of a revolution—delivering AI-powered, smarter, and more personalized travel experiences for a new era.
Role Overview
Do you want to be a part of reshaping the travel ecosystem? We’re looking for a highly motivated Engineering Manager to lead and scale the teams the power our core platform and connectivity capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in building the technical backbone that enables direct integrations, real-time inventory access and seamless partner onboarding – all with a creative spin on automation and AI-driven infrastructure.
You will be responsible for the engineering vision, execution and leadership across mission-critical systems, ensuring our platform is resilient, scalable and continually delivering vale to both internal and external partners.
Main Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Delivery
- Lead, mentor and grow high-performing engineering teams across back-end, platform, data and integrations.
- Lead execution on major initiatives including partner API integrations, contract ingestion and reconciliation via AI agents, performance optimizations, and platform automation.
- Ensure teams deliver high-quality features at pace, balancing innovation with reliability and long-term sustainability.
- Champion engineering excellence through code quality, testing, observability, documentation and continuous improvement.
Collaboration and Cross-functional Alignment
- Work closely with product and design to shape technical approaches, scope initiatives and sequence delivery.
- Translate product strategy and customer problems into clear technical plans and execution roadmaps.
- Collaborate with data, science, supply, operations, and commercial teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Clearly communicate trade-offs, risks and progress to stakeholders and senior leadership.
Operational Excellence
- Own the health, performance and resilience of mission-critical systems across payments, distribution and partner tooling.
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, cost efficiency and developer productivity through automation and tooling.
- Define and track key engineering metrics across delivery velocity, system performance, quality and operational impact.
- Build frameworks and tooling that reduce onboarding friction and streamline partner integrations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2-3 years in an engineering leadership or management role.
- Strong background in API-based platforms, B2B SaaS, travel tech or high-scale integration environments.
- Proven ability to lead teams working with Go and JavaScript, setting engineering standards across backend and supporting services.
- Proven experience leading teams working on connectivity, integrations or real-time data systems.
- Deep understanding of backend engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong data-driven mindset; able to define and measure engineering outcomes and system performance.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Proactive, curious, and collaborative – you lead with clarity and empower teams to solve complex problems.
- Experience working with AI-driven automation, agents or ML-powered systems is a strong plus.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to be at the heart of disruption in travel and to shape the future of travel connectivity
- A fast-paced engineering-driven environment with room to innovate
- Ownership of critical, high-impact technical initiatives
- Well-funded team with ambitious engineering goals
- Remote-friendly, collaborative culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits
Why Nuitee?
At Nuitée, we’re not just reimagining travel—we’re building the infrastructure to power it.
- Massive Market Opportunity: We are tackling the $9.9tn travel industry, starting with the $75 billion B2B hotel market, a fragmented space filled with outdated systems, gatekeepers, and inefficiencies. Nuitée’s API-first platform is solving this, enabling businesses to access hotel inventory seamlessly and at scale.
- World-Class Backing: Backed by Accel and visionary leaders across tech and travel—including Booking.com, Stripe, and Shopify—we’re equipped to scale our ambition globally.
- Bootstrapped Resilience, Startup Agility: Having grown profitably for years without external funding, we combine operational discipline with the speed and innovation of a scaling startup.
- Global Impact: Our infrastructure supports partners like Hopper, Google, and Uber and enables banks, fintechs, super-apps, and non-travel businesses to offer travel solutions for the first time.
- AI-Driven Innovation: Nuitée is uniquely positioned to power the future of travel in the AI era—enabling seamless, intelligent, and hyper-personalized travel interactions.
By joining Nuitée, you’ll be part of a team that’s building a category-defining platform. You’ll work on a global scale, innovate alongside industry leaders, and help drive the next phase of travel technology. If you’re excited to push boundaries, redefine a multi-trillion-dollar industry, and grow with us—Nuitée is the place for you.
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