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# Engineering Manager (f/m/d) at Apaleo

- **Company:** Apaleo
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/apaleo/jobs/8026893003

## Job description

Join Apaleo and Shape the Future of Hospitality Tech!

Apaleo is the world's most open, API-first property management platform powering the next generation of hospitality operations. Its modular, AI-powered infrastructure enables hoteliers to customise their tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless, personalised guest experiences, powered by best-in-class apps and autonomous AI agents that adapt to every stay.

If you want to lead a team that owns a product with direct, visible revenue impact, we'd love to hear from you.

## About the Role

Apaleo Pay is our payments product. It complements our property management platform, so your team's work shows up directly in revenue. It runs as its own service, so the team owns what it builds and what it runs. We are migrating Apaleo Pay to Adyen's newer platform and taking on more responsibility for payments, including security and resilience. Beyond the migration, there is room to grow the product and win more customers. This is a hybrid role. You spend at least 30% of your time as a hands-on engineer with your team, and the rest leading people, delivery and process. You also join our engineering leadership team.

What You’ll Be Up To

- Help every engineer do their best work: build their skills, find their next step and grow without being forced down a single path.
- Build a team that works as one unit, where everyone feels included heard.
- Earn the trust of experienced engineers and coach people at different stages of their careers.
- Work with the Product Manager to deliver real customer value: shape scope, estimate honestly and make sure work gets finished.
- Own the team's way of working and keep improving it.
- Help the team make technical decisions without over-analysis. You facilitate; you don't decide alone.
- Guide the team through the Adyen platform migration, with a strong focus on security and resilience.
- Lead hiring, onboarding and team composition as the team grows.
- Champion modern engineering practices: continuous delivery, DORA metrics, a blameless incident culture and an AI-driven development pipeline.
- Bring company-wide engineering initiatives into the team and bring the team's needs back out.

What You’ll Bring

- Previous leadership experience.
- Empathy, genuine interest in people and the confidence to give and act upon feedback.
- Clear, target-oriented and appreciative Communication. Professional English (C1).
- A solid grasp of digital product development principles: Agile, Lean, DevOps, continuous delivery and how an idea travels from customer insight to impact.
- Comfort with being both a leader and a builder, and clarity on how you balance the two.
- A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset and a love of learning. You use AI in your own work and have a view on how it changes engineering teams.
- Senior-level software engineering experience on a modern web technology stack.
- Experience with distributed systems, message-driven architecture and the cloud.

## Nice to Have

- Genuine interest in payments, or experience with payment service providers or fintech.

Culture & Growth

## What We Offer

- An International Team: Work alongside colleagues from over 20 nationalities.
- Growth and Development: 360° feedback reviews, an evolving career framework and an annual learning budget of €1,000+.
- Autonomy and Ownership: Great ideas can come from anywhere. We trust you to make decisions and contribute directly.
- Real Impact: Join a fast-growing scale-up transforming hospitality. From day one, your work drives real impact.
- Fair Pay: Competitive salaries guided by benchmarking data, with recognition for performance and contribution.
- Flexible Work: Work from home, the office or a hybrid mix. We focus on results, not clocking hours.
- Time Off and Wellbeing: 30 days of vacation and an EGYM Wellpass membership.
- Free Public Transport: A fully covered Deutschland Ticket for travel across Germany.
- Team Connection: Regular team dinners, company meetups and offsite events.

How you make an impact joining Apaleo: Joining Apaleo is more than taking on a role. It's about driving real change in the hospitality industry. Your contributions will directly shape our innovative platform, influence company-wide decisions and help redefine the future of hospitality tech. At Apaleo, your voice matters, your ideas are valued and your impact is tangible. Be part of a team where your work fuels progress, collaboration sparks innovation and growth is a shared journey.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and welcoming workplace. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Your personal data will be handled with the utmost care and in compliance with GDPR and relevant data protection regulations. We celebrate differences and believe that diversity enriches our team and drives innovation.

## About Apaleo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Apaleo provides an API-first, open Property Management Platform (PMS) that empowers hotels, apartment groups, and other accommodation providers to build, automate, and scale their guest and staff experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Ulrich Pillau (CEO), Philip von Ditfurth, Stephan Wiesener (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Hospitality Technology (Hotel Tech), Property Management Software
- Target customers: B2B; enterprise hotel chains, serviced apartment operators, and independent hotels
- Mission or purpose statement: "To give every hospitality business the freedom to create their vision" by providing an open, AI-powered platform that breaks vendor lock-in and accelerates innovation.

## Products & Services
- **Apaleo PMS (The Open Property Management Platform)**: A cloud-native, API-first platform built on MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud, Headless). It includes native multi-property management, process automation, and unlimited data access. It serves as the core operating system for hotel operations, guest management, and integrations.
- **Apaleo APIs**: Industry-leading APIs that allow developers and third-party apps to build custom solutions, integrate deeply, and create autonomous, agent-driven hotel operations.
- **Apaleo Store**: A marketplace for AI-driven innovations and third-party app integrations, enabling an "autonomous hotel ecosystem."
- **AI Agents**: Ready-made and custom AI agents that automate routine tasks (e.g., housekeeping, guest communication), freeing up staff for high-impact work.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$31.1M** (USD). Annual Revenue of approximately **€552.7K** (according to LinkedIn, likely reflects early-stage revenue signals).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: PSG Equity (led the Series B), Redalpine, Rockaway Ventures, Serpentine Ventures, Force Over Mass Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - **Headcount growth**: Grew from ~48 to **84 employees** in the last year (+58.1% YoY).
    - **Customer wins**: Rapid rollout with **citizenM** (7,500 rooms in 8 weeks), partnership with **Valk Exclusief** (43 hotels), and **Limehome** achieving 400% growth on the platform.
    - **Acquisition**: Acquired Hotelhero in 2021.
    - **International reach**: Operates in 14 countries, with employees across Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, France, and Portugal.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open & API-first**: Unlike traditional, monolithic PMS providers, Apaleo is built entirely on MACH architecture, offering full flexibility and eliminating vendor lock-in. This allows hotels to own their data and choose best-in-class apps.
- **Cost model**: No set-up, license, maintenance, or integration fees, drastically lowering the total cost of ownership.
- **Compliance & Security**: Exceeds standards for GDPR, PCI, PSD2, and SOC 2.
- **AI-native**: Actively building and enabling autonomous AI agents for hotel operations, positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of hospitality tech.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agent-driven hotel operations**: Moving beyond traditional PMS features to create an ecosystem where AI agents handle routine tasks autonomously.
- **Scaling the ecosystem**: Growing the Apaleo Store and partner network to offer more pre-built integrations and AI innovations.
- **International expansion**: Continuing to grow its customer base across Europe and beyond, focusing on both hotel chains and serviced apartment operators.
- **Product development**: Iterating rapidly on its platform to support new use cases and improve developer experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Described as "Apaleo is built on the premise that people working together can create something bigger than the sum of its parts." Core values include **Impact**, **Agility**, **Community**, **Freedom**, and **Ambition**. The company emphasizes autonomy, bold thinking, and progress over perfection.
- **Work Model**: **Hybrid or Remote**. Employees can work in a way that fits the role, with options for hybrid (Munich/Berlin offices) or fully remote depending on the team.
- **Perks**:
    - 30 vacation days
    - Flexible hours
    - Free public transportation in Munich or Berlin
    - Transparent career progression with regular feedback
    - Team events and company get-togethers
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on **.NET** and **Python**. The team is building a complex, high-scale platform with real-time data, APIs, and AI. The open platform philosophy extends to engineering, where teams are encouraged to "test their hunches" and take ownership.
- **Diversity**: Committed to building a diverse and inclusive team with 25+ nationalities represented.

## Sources
1. [apaleo.com](https://apaleo.com/)
2. [apaleo.com/about-us](https://www.apaleo.com/about-us)
3. [apaleo.com/careers](https://apaleo.com/careers)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/apaleo](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/apaleo)
5. [linkedin.com/company/apaleo](https://de.linkedin.com/company/apaleo)

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