Engineering Team Lead - Whereto, Spain T-953

Engineering Team Lead - WhereTo, Spain

Job no: 520418VK
Brand: Product and Technology
Work type: Full time, Hybrid, Remote
Location: Spain
Categories: Information & Technology

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

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 meeting cadence with their team, including planning sessions, 1-1 meetings, and stand-ups.

Communicate progress, roadblocks, concerns, and successes to engineering management.

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 to management for formal performance reviews.

Help their team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.

Provide mentorship to junior engineers.

Assist in 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

Strong experience delivering projects/products to a large user base.

Either a bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in a related field, or 4+ years industry experience as a contributor and manager.

Application Languages and 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.

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