Engineering Manager at Duettoresearch

Engineering Manager This isn't a coordination role. It's a people-first, delivery-accountable, technically credible leadership position at the heart of one of the most genuinely interesting engineering transformations in hospitality tech. You'll lead a team of 5–10 engineers through a live monolith-to-microservices migration, a frontend re-platform, and the shift to AI-first engineering — where 50–70% of code is already AI-generated and the management job has fundamentally changed as a result. What Makes Us Different? Duetto is the hospitality industry's leading revenue management platform, founded in 2012 by former Wynn Resorts executives who knew the industry needed better technology. We built the world's first Revenue & Profit Operating System — a suite of tools (GameChanger, ScoreBoard, BlockBuster, Advance and more) that goes beyond room pricing to give hotels, resorts and casinos a complete picture of their revenue and profitability. Trusted by clients ranging from independent boutique hotels to global chains, we've been named the #1 Revenue Management Software by HotelTechAwards four years running and the #1 Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech in 2025. Backed by GrowthCurve Capital since 2024, we're accelerating our investment in AI — and we're genuinely passionate about the industry we serve. We build products we're proud of, for customers we care about. What You'll Be Doing • You'll lead the people: running structured weekly 1:1s focused on growth and wellbeing, owning the full performance cycle, building hiring pipelines from scratch, and creating the psychological safety that lets engineers do their best work — including raising problems early and challenging assumptions, including yours. • You'll own delivery: sprint planning, backlog refinement, roadmap trade-offs with your Product Manager, and the discipline to surface scope and timeline risks before they become surprises — you're a co-owner of the roadmap, not an executor of someone else's plan. • You'll drive technical health: partnering with your Tech Lead on architectural direction, championing observability, documentation, and quality standards, and ensuring the team balances feature delivery with the technical investment that makes them faster over time. • You'll lead through transformation: supporting your team through the monolith-to-microservices migration, the BLAST frontend platform shift, and the move to a generate-and-review engineering model — coaching engineers to evolve their craft as AI changes what great engineering looks like. • You'll build team culture: designing sustainable on-call rotations, managing capacity with care, developing engineers at every seniority level, and modelling the work-life balance you want your team to have. • You'll contribute to the wider org: shaping hiring standards, participating in engineering guilds, partnering with Product, Design, QE, and DevOps, and representing your team's perspective in quarterly planning and cross-functional forums. What We're Looking For You may be a good fit if you have: • 3+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers in a high-growth environment • Experience building hiring pipelines from scratch — role profiles, structured interviews, offer negotiation, and intentional onboarding • Demonstrated career development impact: you can speak concretely about engineers you've grown from mid to senior, or senior to staff • Performance management experience including difficult feedback, written reviews, and PIPs • Strong software engineering background — you've written production code and can hold a genuine conversation about systems design, API design, and data modelling trade-offs • Working understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven patterns, and CI/CD • Remote-first leadership experience: you've built real trust and cohesion across timezones without geographic proximity • A clear point of view on what engineering management means in an AI-first organisation — what changes about coaching, metrics, code review, and quality when 50–70% of code is AI-generated • Experience working with or alongside teams using AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent) Strong candidates may also have: • Familiarity with legacy modernisation — monolith decomposition, migration strategies, delivering features while re-platforming underneath • Experience with revenue management, dynamic pricing, or B2B SaaS for enterprise hospitality • Hands-on knowledge of our stack: Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/React, Next.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS • Exposure to ML or data-intensive systems: real-time analytics, pricing optimisation, low-latency data processing Why Duetto? • You'll be managing at the frontier of AI-first engineering. With 50–70% of code AI-generated and custom agents and agentic workflows already in production, this is a rare opportunity to define what great engineering management looks like when code generation is no longer the bottleneck. • The transformation is real and consequential. Live monolith decomposition, a frontend re-platform, and an AI-first shift — all simultaneously. These are the moments that define engineering careers and management reputations. • Clear growth path. EM → Senior EM → Director of Engineering. Duetto promotes from within and takes management seriously as a discipline, not a consolation prize for engineers who stopped coding. • The work matters. Your teams build systems that process real-time pricing decisions for global hotel brands. It's visible, high-stakes, and genuinely interesting. • Benefits worth having. Equity participation, comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, home office stipend, generous PTO, and a learning and development budget. The Details • Location: Croatia • Work model: Remote, distributed across EMEA and Americas timezones • Reports to: Director of Engineering / VP of Engineering • Direct reports: 5–10 engineers (1–2 teams) Duetto is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Sound like you? You don't need to have done everything on this list. If you're a people-first leader who's technically credible, genuinely curious about AI-augmented engineering, and energised by the idea of leading teams through real transformation — we'd love to hear from you. #LI-REMOTE