Head of Engineering (eCommerce)

TL;DR

Head of Engineering (eCommerce): Defining and executing technical strategy and roadmap for a high-volume, data-intensive marketplace with an accent on architectural excellence, scalability, reliability, and data accuracy. Focus on managing multiple engineering teams, optimizing partner integrations, and driving best practices across the engineering lifecycle.

Location: Hybrid in Vilnius or Kaunas, Lithuania

Salary: €6,500 – €8,300 gross/month

Company

HomeToGo is a marketplace offering the world's largest selection of vacation rentals.

What you will do

• Define and execute technical strategy and roadmap for the Marketplace Inventory Supply domain.
• Directly manage 3+ Engineering Teams, including Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers.
• Lead the quarterly planning process, translating high-level business objectives into clear engineering goals.
• Oversee the engineering lifecycle for partner integrations and property data ingestion/transformation.
• Drive architectural excellence and make key technology decisions for the high-volume, data-intensive platform.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders for timely feature delivery.

Requirements

• Extensive leadership experience managing engineering teams in a high-traffic, data-intensive marketplace or e-commerce environment.
• Technical expertise in one or more areas of our tech stack (PHP Symfony, .NET C#, distributed systems, high-volume data processing with Kafka/RabbitMQ, large-scale databases like MariaDB/Snowflake/ElasticSearch).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical strategy to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working with product managers and business teams to translate requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), and modern monitoring and observability practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Career growth opportunities, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international team.
• Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy, and quarterly transparency about company goals.
• Focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities.
• Attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, and flexible working hours.
• Language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin.