Engine
Travel Technology · Business Travel
$68.8Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
19open roles
$212kmedian advertised pay
$65Mlatest round · Venture round · Nov 2021 · 4 yr ago
Overview
Engine is an American business travel and lodging booking platform, formerly known as Hotel Engine, that gives companies negotiated rates on hotels, flights and rental cars together with centralized billing, reporting and support for their travelling employees. It serves work crews, field teams and corporate travelers for businesses ranging from small firms to large enterprises across the United States. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States.
How Engine hires
Truth index
B 77/100
Median time to fill
54 days
Ghost roles
5%
Stale roles
74%
Reposted roles
11%
Engine scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 5% look like ghost listings, 74% have gone stale and 11% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 54 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$68.8M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$65M
Venture round · Nov 2021 · 4 yr ago
Team
592
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
59
+15 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Elefund
The money's age
Long since its last round
59 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 17, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $65M · SEC Form D
Aug 30, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $3.8M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Jan 26, 2016
Released an app Engine Corporate Travel · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.06%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.7 ★
3.6k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $65M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2019 | $3.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | HotelEngine, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Elia WallenExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$212k
Typical range
$90k – $500k
Open positions
50
46
Jobs
Junior
8.7%
Middle
8.7%
Senior
45.7%
Staff
13%
Architect
23.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 4 | $138k | $125k – $145k |
| Middle | 4 | $220k | $180k – $250k |
| Senior | 21 | $200k | $115k – $270k |
| Staff | 6 | $213k | $170k – $245k |
| Architect | 11 | $234k | $218k – $500k |
Highest paying role
Director, Ad Sales & Partner Hub Solutions
$500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Engine
By role, level and city, against the market · 50 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
$213k
Median offered salary
55
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Logisticians
1
Public relations specialists
1
In the register as Hotel Engine, Inc., Denver, CO
Other sponsors in the same field
Navan 
Perk 
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
56
7 opened / 16 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+269%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
34% ▼
Leadership
10% ▼
Product
10% ▲
HR
7% ▼
Backend
6% ▼
Administrative
4%
Actively hiring for Sales (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Time Series to stack
Oct 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Oct 2026
Added Kanban to stack
Oct 2026
Added Postman to stack
Oct 2026
Added Streamlit to stack
Oct 2026
Added NumPy to stack
Oct 2026
Added Feature Store to stack
Oct 2026
Added OWASP Top 10 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack
Oct 2026
Added Docker to stack
Oct 2026
Added C# to stack
Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
People
Elia Wallen
Executive Officer, Director
Carlos Abisambra
Director
Chris Riopelle
Director
Mickey Arabelovic
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Engine over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
79
Postings analysed
114
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL15%
JavaScript11%
Kotlin6%
Node JS5%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js4%
Playwright2%
Ruby on Rails2%
Lightning Web Components1%
Databases
Snowflake11%
MySQL1%
PostgreSQL1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS11%
Looker7%
Datadog5%
Agentforce4%
AI & ML
Claude10%
LLM7%
EfficientNet1%
Midjourney1%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Denver
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Denver
United States
HQ
Office - Denver, CO
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $118k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
1601 Wewatta St STE 250, Denver, CO, 80202, US
Chicago
United States
Remote hub
Office - Chicago, IL
9 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 89% remote 200-500 est. staff $178k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions, Marketing
Tempe
United States
Remote hub
Office - Tempe, AZ
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
New York
United States
Regional office
Office - NYC, NY