Remote Data Engineering Team Lead, RoomPriceGenie
Smart pricing for hotels
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Smart pricing for hotels
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring you the best possible pricing with the least possible work.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading engineers in a technical or team lead capacity
- Strong coaching mindset, you enjoy growing people, not just systems
- Comfortable building structure in a new or evolving environment
- High ownership mentality with the ability to balance autonomy and accountability
- Solid experience as a Software or Data Engineer, with production system ownership
- Strong experience in Python (4+ years)
- Experience building and maintaining production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines in modern cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift)
- Strong data modeling skills (analytics-ready schemas, performance optimisation, testing and documentation practices)
- Experience with orchestrated data pipelines (e.g. Dagster, Airflow or similar)
- Strong system design and architecture skills with a focus on scalability and maintainability
- Analytical and structured thinker with a strong focus on long-term architecture
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning it into clarity
- Pragmatic but quality-driven
- Collaborative and low-ego, you build trust across teams
- Fluent in English and based in the European time zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2)
Desirable
- Experience running regular 1:1s and supporting performance conversations
- Previous formal people management experience
- Experience building or restructuring data platforms from scratch
- Experience scaling engineering teams in a high-growth environment
- Hands-on experience with dbt (modeling, testing, documentation)
- Experience modernising legacy data pipelines
- Familiarity with Django or FastAPI ecosystems
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Sentry)
- Experience working with distributed task queues (e.g. Celery & RabbitMQ)
- Strong understanding of cost-aware architecture in data-intensive systems
What the job involves
- As an Data Engineering Team Lead for the newly formed Market Data team at RoomPriceGenie, you will have a unique opportunity to build and shape a foundational capability within the company
- This team is being created to centralise and professionalise how we acquire, structure and scale external data sources across the organisation. What started as distributed side initiatives across multiple teams will now become a dedicated, scalable and best-practice-driven data platform
- You’ll partner closely with Product and engineering leadership to define the roadmap, establish strong technical foundations and create a high-performing, empowered team culture
- Build, lead and develop a team of backend and data engineers
- Create a strong team identity, ownership mindset and high-performance culture from day one
- Drive the design of scalable, maintainable and cost-efficient data acquisition and transformation systems
- Establish strong engineering best practices in system design, testing, observability and documentation
- Improve and modernise existing data workflows by turning ad-hoc initiatives into structured, production-grade systems
- Ensure the team builds with long-term scalability and reliability in mind
- Collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers to ensure alignment and shared standards
- Contribute to architectural decisions that impact company-wide data strategy
- Promote a culture of data quality, clear ownership and measurable outcomes
- Stay technically involved through code reviews, architectural discussions and occasional coding
- Support engineers in solving complex system design challenges
- Run regular 1:1s, provide feedback and actively mentor engineers in both technical and professional growth
Our take
Setting and managing room rates is a constant headache for small and medium-sized hotels. Even slight pricing errors can make the difference between profit and loss, and without expert knowledge, they're often left navigating this crucial aspect of their business blindfolded.
RoomPriceGenie's solution simplifies this process by providing an automated pricing system that leverages data analysis to optimise rates. By analysing data from up to 500 nearby properties, it allows hotel managers, even those without prior experience in price management systems, to make informed decisions and maximise revenue.
Recognising the potential of RoomPriceGenie, BADideas.fund invested heavily in the company, as did Five Elms Capital in 2025 with $75 million in VC funding. These votes of confidence, coupled with the company's global ambitions, arm RoomPriceGenie with the chance to capture a significant market share and revolutionise the way small and medium-sized hotels approach pricing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2025
$75m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2023
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $79m
Company benefits
- Chose to work 100% full remotely, or enjoy our co-working sponsorship.
- Team gatherings: Twice a year, we bring the whole global team together for a week of networking, work collaboration and some fun plus.
- Growth and Development: Every Genie is encouraged to a lifelong learning journey, and we support personal and professional development courses and training. Each year, Genies can get up to 3 extra days off to focus on their development.
- Celebrate your Birthday: Genies get the day off so they can celebrate on their terms.
- Wellbeing: Mental health is essential for us. Every Genie has access to Headspace, the worlds leading meditation app, to practice living a happy, healthier and more rested life.
- Flexible working hours: To help Genies balance their worklife relations, wherever reasonable and possible, we look to allow you the freedom to fit your work around your life.
- 1 team - 1 vision - 1 goal: All our Genies are aligned around our vision and goal and collaborate to make this happen – no wonder this gets rated at a 9.3 score on Glassdoor
- BetterHelp Support: We also offer BetterHelp, a professional online therapy and counseling platform, giving you additional support whenever you need it.
- Wellbeing Matters: Your mental health is a top priority. Every Genie gets access to Headspace, the leading meditation app, to help you cultivate a happier, healthier, and more zen life.
Company values
- We are customer centric: We understand our customer’s needs and care about the customer and their needs
- We take initiative and deliver excellence: We initiate, take responsibility for the execution and deliver excellence in our job
- We operate with respect & integrity: We are honest, open, ethical, and fair, and we always treat our colleagues, customers and partners with respect and integrity
- We work as a team and have fun: Work hard, play hard. Together with the team, we focus on and celebrate success, both the big and the small
- We move fast in the pursuit of growth: We act with urgency and courage, finding ways to grow ourselves and the company
Company HQ
Remote
Articles
Leadership
Ari Andricopoulos
(Co-Founder & CSO)Graduated from ETH Zürich with a Masters in Management, Technology, and Economics. Before founding RoomPriceGenie they were a Partner at Dacharan Advisory.
Jörg Siegel
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with a Master of Science.
Marvin Speh
(Co-Founder)Graduated from the University of St. Gallen with a Bachelor in Business Administration.
Chas Scarantino
(CEO)Moved from the US to Portugal to become RoomPriceGenie’s CEO after serving as Chief Revenue Officer at Gravity Sketch.
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