Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems - London na Skyscanner

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role

Hybrid

We’re on the lookout for an Engineering Manager to lead our Wally squad — the team behind the Landing Pages Platform that powers Skyscanner’s global web presence. This is where marketing sparkle meets engineering muscle. You’ll steer the squad that enables content to go live safely, swiftly, and without any late-night “why is the build red?” drama — all while scaling systems that serve millions of travellers.

If solving complex distributed systems, levelling up engineers, and building platforms that make other teams’ lives immeasurably better sounds like your idea of a good time, then you might just be Wally’s next navigator.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading a high-impact platform team: You’ll guide the squad that designs, builds and operates Skyscanner’s Landing Pages Platform.

• Setting direction: You’ll craft clear, traveller-centred outcomes that align tech, marketing and product.

• Partnering cross-functionally: You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and help them create higher-quality experiences, faster.

• Building for scale: You’ll evolve reliable, resilient systems that keep performance sharp and uptime shiny, even under heavy traffic.

• Championing engineering excellence: You’ll push standards across automation, testing, observability and incident readiness.

• Growing great engineers: You’ll mentor, coach and support engineers through thoughtful feedback, development and empowerment.

• Balancing short and long term: You’ll deliver immediate value without losing sight of security, compliance or cost-efficient architecture.

About you

• Experienced leader: You’ve hired, coached and nurtured high-performing engineering teams.

• System-savvy: You bring strong foundations in distributed systems, reliability and scalable platform architecture.

• CMS-curious: You know your way around content platforms — bonus points for Contentful or publishing workflows.

• API & events fluent: You’re comfortable with cloud infrastructure and event-driven designs.

• Developer-focused: You care deeply about great tooling, documentation and overall developer experience.

• Delivery-driven: You’ve navigated ambiguity, driven complex projects and kept teams focused through change.

• Collaborative by design: You build trusted relationships across engineering, product and marketing — and bring people with you.

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️ building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.