Engineering Manager — Saltstayz

Build the engineering engine for one of India's fastest-moving hospitality brands.

About Saltstayz

Saltstayz is a boutique hotel brand running ~35 properties and ~1,000 keys across India in the midscale-economy segment, spanning four sub-brands — Autograph, Premier, Select, and Express. We're brand-led and tech-forward: our own direct booking platform, the Beyond loyalty program, the Sphere cashback engine, and SaltCore — a custom PMS we're building in-house to replace our vendor stack.

We're early, founder-led, and moving fast, on a path toward ₹3,000 Cr by 2035 — roughly 13x growth in keys.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager / Lead to build the team, systems, and standards that carry us there.

What makes the problems hard

Booking reliability at scale — real-time inventory, pricing, and reservations flowing across our platform, OTAs, and a PMS, where one failed sync means a lost or overbooked room. You'll own making this bulletproof: idempotency, reconciliation, circuit breakers, and clean failure states.

A PMS from scratch — SaltCore is a 0-to-1 build of the core operational software 30+ properties run their day on.

New product bets — day-use inventory, dynamic pricing, CRS/lead tooling, HRMS.

What you'll own

The team — grow, mentor, and lead a small senior engineering team; set the hiring bar as we scale.

Delivery — run a tight sprint cadence and ship reliably against business priorities.

Technical direction — own architecture, code quality,



and standards; make the build-vs-buy calls.

Reliability — keep the booking, payment, and PMS-critical paths up, with real SLAs.

The bridge — turn product and strategy direction into well-engineered, shipped reality.

Our stack

What we're looking for

Experience leading and growing engineering teams, shipping production software people depend on.

Strong hands-on roots — you can still read a PR, reason about architecture, and debug a nasty production issue.

Depth in backend / systems: APIs, databases, async processing, and the failure modes of distributed, third-party-integrated systems.

Comfort in an early-stage, high-ownership environment — you set up process where it's missing.

Sharp judgment on reliability, trade-offs, and prioritization; clear communication with engineers and founders alike.

Bonus: hospitality, travel, e-commerce, or fintech — any high-transaction, inventory-and-payments domain; or having built/replaced a core operational platform.

Why join now

You build the engineering org, not inherit one. Small team, direct line to the founders, meaty problems, and a 10x+ scale story you help make possible.

The details

Location : On-site, Gurugram.

Experience : 5-10 years in engineering, with 2+ years in a lead / EM role.

Compensation : ₹12-18 LPA + ESOPs.

Pay: ₹1,200,000.00 - ₹1,800,000.00 per year

Benefits :

- Adaptable schedule
- Food provided
- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 Engineering Manager (Gurugram)
🏢 Saltstayz hotel
📍 Gurugram