Frontend Lead Engineer

Job Description

Posted 3 days ago

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 Frontend Lead Engineer in Spain to lead a team of backend and frontend engineers to facilitate the international expansion at eDreams Odigeo. If you’re ready to soar, we’re ready to take you there.

Join the world’s leading travel subscription platform.

Millions of customers every year across 44 markets – 5 brands – over 7.7 million Prime members since launching in 2017.

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.

We’re the world’s leading travel subscription platform. We pioneered Prime, the first and largest travel subscription programme, which has topped over 7.7 million members since launching in 2017. 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.

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 Frontend Lead Engineer in the Convert vertical, you will be in charge of:

• Working with top-notch tech stack including ES6 code, Java script libraries like React
  
  JS, Graphql, storybook to speed up developments, testing frameworks and libraries like Jest, React testing library and Cypress, Style Sheet preprocessors like SASS, CSS-in-JS and styled-components, Dockerized modules, Git workflow with continuous integration.
• Collaborating with Product, Business, Architecture, Data Science to shape the technical strategy and evolution of the Hotels 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.

Must have

• Knowledge and experience with coding, OO design, system design, performance tuning, performance engineering, design patterns, data modelling.
• Java and code base knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience with distributed, concurrent and scalable systems.

Good to have

• Ability to take fast and data driven decisions.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to live and transmit our values.
• Intense focus on what delivers customer value.
• High standards around quality and technical excellence in coding.
• Developing and growing self and others.
• Presenting with confidence to both technical and non technical audiences.

• Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-powered coding assistants.
• Experimentation Mindset: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and integrate emerging AI-driven solutions…