Start your very own journey – with HolidayCheck!
At HolidayCheck, everything revolves around making vacations better – together. We're not only enabling the best time of the year for our travelers, but also creating an inspiring work atmosphere for our HolidayCheckers in our modern office in Bottighofen (Switzerland).
We live our company values every day: as #TeamHolidayCheck, we build trust, take ownership, and love what we do – all for the perfect holiday experience!
As
Head of Engineering - Frontend (all genders) at HolidayCheck, you will lead 8 people with a focus on people, process, and frontend product excellence. You’ll foster a high-performance environment where frontend teams build delightful, reliable, and scalable travel experiences. By combining technical leadership with a product-oriented mindset, you will enable engineers to deliver user-facing features that have real business impact.
Your Tasks
- Lead and develop distributed frontend engineering teams through coaching, mentorship, and intentional career growth
- Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver high-quality, user-centric features in a timely manner
- Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes to increase speed, quality, and team productivity
- Ensure strong alignment across Product, Design, and Engineering to create cohesive customer experiences
- Define and track clear KPIs to measure engineering impact and link outcomes to business value
- Promote a culture of ownership, inclusion, excellence, trust, and continuous feedback
- Define and uphold frontend service-level objectives (SLOs) for reliability and performance
- Plan team capacity, lead hiring efforts, and scale the team in line with product roadmap needs
What you bring
- Strong technical foundation with deep frontend expertiseand platform experience
- Proven track recording engineering leadership, including team management and organizational scaling
- Strong product mindset with the ability to translate business goals into scalable, sustainable technical solutions
- Experience leading distributed engineering teams across locations and time zones
- Operational clarity with a focus on delivery predictability and system reliability, combined with strategic foresight
- Empathetic, clear, and outcome-driven leadership style that enables and empowers others to succeed
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate transparently and effectively across functions and organizational boundaries
Our “All Inclusive Package” for you
Workation & Flexibility
- 20 days of workation within the EU – work where others go on vacation
- We combine in-person collaboration with remote focus time. For People Managers, we value strong on-site presence and expect regular office time, typically around three days per week
- Flexible working hours – early bird or night owl? We’ve got you covered!
- 28 days of vacation for your wellbeing
- 40-hour work week is standard at HolidayCheck
Development & Culture
- Extensive internal & external training opportunities
- Diverse corporate culture with over 30 nationalities
- From newbie to champion: structured onboarding for a smooth start
Perks & Appreciation
- Anniversary perks in the form of extra vacation days or travel subsidies
- Your choice of hardware – Mac, Windows, or Linux
- Free parking or public transport subsidy
Work-Life-Balance & Wellbeing
- Childcare subsidy for a family-friendly balance
- Up to 300 CHF annual subsidyfor gym memberships
- Healthy & delicious meals from our in-house chef Evelyn
And many more!
Ready to join the HolidayCheck adventure? Then grab your suitcase full of talent and send us your application!