Lead Software Engineer - Frontend

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX or Memphis, TN.

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that’s creating consumer-facing, cutting‑edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Software Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award‑winning culture. On the Web‑Software Engineering Team reporting to the Senior Manager Software Engineering, you will support projects including  and related customer‑facing digital experiences.

What you’ll do during a typical day:

• Develop scalable front‑end solutions for Hilton’s websites and digital services.
• Lead technical design and implementation for complex initiatives, ensuring performance, accessibility, maintainability, and alignment with platform standards.
• Drive code quality through code reviews, documentation, testing, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and integrate AI‑powered tools and workflows to help the team develop faster, improve code quality, and increase engineering effectiveness.

How you’ll collaborate with others:

• Collaborate with architects, product owners, designers, and engineers to build Hilton’s web experiences, contributing to roadmap planning, technical strategy, agile ceremonies, and AI adoption.
• Mentor engineers, promoting strong engineering practices, risk awareness, and effective use of AI‑enabled development approaches.

Deliverables you’ll take ownership of:

• Lead delivery of major initiatives for  and customer‑facing digital experiences, serving as technical owner for complex features and shared capabilities through deployment, observability, and ongoing support.
• Manage front‑end assets, reusable components, and automated tests to ensure high‑quality, performant, and accessible user experiences.

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or a related field
• Three (3) years of experience working with React
• Experience with Type Script, HTML, CSS, and Java Script
• Experience using AI tools, services, or APIs in software development workflows or digital applications
• Experience helping engineering teams to improve development speed, quality, and effectiveness
• This is a hybrid role and would require you to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, or Memphis)
• Travel up to 10% annually

It would be useful if you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree, or Associate’s Degree plus six plus (6+) years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus twelve plus (12+) years of Technology related experience
• Seven (7) + years of professional experience in Technology or a related field
• Five (5) + years of experience working with React
• Practical experience evaluating and adopting AI developer tools to accelerate delivery and improve engineering workflows
• Experience providing technical direction on how AI technologies can improve team productivity and software delivery.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and Splunk.