We are Awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, bringing together trusted travel brands like cottages.com, Hoseasons, and NOVASOL.
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With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we’re proud to offer guests a choice of over 100,000 properties across 25 countries, helping millions of travellers create memories that last a lifetime.
Position: Senior Engineering Manager (Core Platforms)
Reports to: Group Director of Engineering
Location: Hybrid (Manchester 2 days per week)
About the role
We’re entering an exciting new phase of our tech and product strategy, putting innovation, scalability, and reliability at the core of our platform. Our mission is to evolve our technology foundations to power faster, smarter, and more resilient customer experiences across all our brands.
As Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platforms, you’ll lead five cross-functional product teams and engineering team of c. 30, responsible for the backbone of Awaze’s technology, everything from booking services, Search, payments, and availability systems to our internal pricing platforms that power guest and owner journeys.
Day-to-day, you will:
* Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers across multiple teams.
* Drive technical strategy, delivery excellence, and architectural evolution across our core platforms.
* Foster a culture of collaboration, autonomy, and accountability within a modern product-led environment.
* Partner with Product to balance innovation with reliability, ensuring our core platforms can scale to support millions of bookings.
* Champion engineering best practices such as CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and platform reliability.
* Create an environment where teams can experiment, learn, and deliver value quickly and safely.
* Play a key role in shaping how we attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent across Awaze.
What we’re looking for
A key hire as part of our 2026 engineering & product plans, we’re looking for a strategic, hands-on engineering leader who thrives in a complex, fast-paced environment. You’ll combine technical depth with strong people leadership, balancing delivery with long-term capability building.
You’ll likely bring:
* Experience leading multiple engineering teams (20+ engineers) in a modern, product-led organisation.
* A strong technical background, ideally with experience in distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred), and event-driven platforms.
* Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy across multiple domains.
* A track record of growing engineering leaders and building high-performing, empowered teams.
* Passion for scalable, reliable, and secure system design.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across tech, product, and the wider business.
Whats on offer?
* Competitive package
* Annual Bonus Scheme
* 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
* Holiday Discounts across our network
* Pension contribution scheme
* Private healthcare
* Hybrid working (2 days in Mcr office per week)
* Training & certifications
Get in touch, wed love to chat:
If youre excited by the idea of shaping the future of travel tech, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your profile and let’s chat.