Job Description
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As you contemplate your future, you might be asking yourself, what’s the next step? Start your journey with us!
We’re seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to join our Transport team in Porto (hybrid), to help customers reach their destination by finding the best travel deals, combining more than 700 airlines and 100.000 flights worldwide every day to offer millions of combinations in real time of different products, like flights, trains and hotels. If you’re ready to soar, we’re ready to take you there.
Why eDreams ODIGEO
Join the world’s leading travel subscription platform
We pioneered Prime, the first and largest travel subscription programme, which has topped over 7.8 million Prime members since launching in 2017
Millions of customers every year across 44 markets – 5 brands: eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink, and the metasearch engine Liligo
More than 100 million searches per day on our websites – more than 6 billion AI daily predictions
Over 1,700 employees – More than 60 different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts
Prime members are subscribed to global travel, gaining access to a comprehensive multi-product offering for all their travel needs—including hotels, rail, flights, dynamic packages and car rental, among others— compounded by industry-leading flexibility features and exclusive, member-only benefits. This entire Prime experience is powered by a proprietary, industry-leading AI platform that delivers a smarter, hyper-personalised service and comprehensive travel experience globally to its members
What you will do:
The Role’s Key Responsibilities and Tasks
As an eDOer, you will have clear objectives, great challenges and a clear overview of how your work contributes to the global company project and its customers. As a Lead Engineer in the Transport vertical you will be in charge of:
- Working with top-notch tech stack including Java 17, BigData (Kafka, BigTable, Redis, PostgreSQL), LLMs, Datamesh, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Sonarqube and Datadog
- Collaborating with Product, Business, Architecture, Data Science to shape the technical strategy and evolution of the Payments domain, define the technical strategy for your modules and ensure their optimal performance
- Helping your team translate functional specifications into high-performance logical technical design and code and split the work into smaller tasks that add quick value to customers
- Promoting our standards of technical excellence, innovation and continuous improvement Leading a high performing cross functional agile team of 7-10 experienced software engineers and developers
- Taking an active role in finding and hiring the best talent available, in collaboration with our recruiters, and onboard new joiners into our culture of high performance, collaboration and growth
- Managing performance, setting goals and prioritising work for your team, balancing the capacity of the team
- Establish a sense of identity, engagement and belonging in your team, and improve team dynamics – in collaboration with your dedicated agile coach
- Act as a mentor, helping others develop their skills and professional career
What you need to succeed
Good to have
Bring your unique perspective, speak up, and offer disruptive solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow while making a real impact on our team. Here’s what you need to succeed:
