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WhereTo began as a San Francisco-based business travel startup and has since evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre Travel Group family. Our mission is simple: to make business travel better for everyone.
We provide an AI-powered platform that transforms corporate travel. Using machine learning, it tailors personalized travel recommendations based on traveler preferences, company policies, and budget. Our technology also offers real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, helping companies optimize their travel programs and reduce expenses.
About The Opportunity
The Technical Lead will report into the Head of Engineering and will be responsible for managing the engineers on their team, driving accountability within their team, and will be responsible for the output of their team.
The Technical Lead will also assist in the planning and delivery of projects, communicate progress and roadblocks to stakeholders and management, and will empower the engineers on those teams to make the largest impact possible for company goals while also reaching their professional development goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with Engineering Management, Operations Team, and Product Team to develop and execute domain team objectives and strategies.
- Lead and organize technical planning for their team’s projects.
- Maintain team velocity, drive accountability, and ensure quality and consistent output for their team.
- Work with team project manager to organize and maintain regular meetingcadence with their team, including planning sessions, 1-1 meetings, and standups.
- Communicate progress, roadblocks, concerns, and successes to engineeringmanagement.
- Organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
- Advocate on behalf of team needs such as addressing technical debt and improving infrastructure.
- Provide technical guidance and lead code review for their team.
- Provide regular feedback to engineers on their team and provide input tomanagement for formal performance reviews.
- Help their team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
- Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
- Assist and hiring and onboarding process for their team.
- Help team members to develop and execute their personal growth goals.
- Lead effort estimation with their team.
- Lead deployment process for their team.
Experience & Qualifications
- 7+ years professional experience in a senior software engineering role.
- Demonstrated understanding of Agile principles and processes.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices.
- Commercially minded with the ability to hit the ground running, and to build and maintain constructive working relationships at all levels.
- Excellent adaptive team leadership capabilities including the ability to foster productive team dynamics, engage and enable teams and coach for performance.
- Ability to embrace change in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong experience delivering projects / products to a large user base.
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering OR 4+ years of industry experience as a manager.
- The ideal candidate will have 6+ years' experience in the engineering space, and comfortable working with the following technologies:
- NodeJS
- React
- RabbitMQ
- SOAP and Rest based APIs
- JVM based languages
- Kafka
- ELK Stack (Elastic Stack)
- Data Storage and Related Technologies:
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Druid / Superset
- Infrastructure and Related Technologies
- Docker and Docker Compose
- Mesos / Marathon / Sensu go (or similar technologies)
- AWS / Azure
- OpenVPN
- Vault
- HAProxy
- LDAP
- PGBouncer
Desirable Experience
- Experience in building Serverless applications such as using AWS Lambda.
- Experience in SSR methodologies and frameworks such as Next.js.
- Exposure to AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and Cloudfront.
- Experience with DevOps tooling & practices valuing a DevOps culture.
- Experience with observability tools, such as logging (Splunk, Kibana) and monitoring (New Relic).
- Experience within travel or other internet-scale environments.
- Strong understanding of the travel or retail industry.
Here’s what you can look forward to at WhereTo:
- If you're based in Barcelona, you'll have access to our fantastic central office located in the heart of the city at Plaça Catalunya.
- Access to our rooftop terrace with table tennis, and a fully stocked kitchen with snacks, fresh fruit, and drinks.
- Free language lessons in English, French, Spanish, or Catalan.
- A competitive package:
- 25 vacation days + 5 additional compensation days + reduced summer hours + bank holidays.
- Comprehensive health insurance.
- Flexible working hours.
- If you sign a contract and start with us on or after November 1st, you may be eligible for a €2,000 sign-on bonus!
- The chance to work alongside a talented, international team.
- Fun activities and events organized by our team ambassadors!
*Remote role across Spain, with opportunity to use our Barcelona office
*No Sponsorship
