Are you ready to shape the future of the travel industry by working in one of the world’s largest, most innovative, online travel companies?
Who we are and what is our purpose?
At eDreams ODIGEO, we all believe in one thing – helping millions of people discover their world. Our cutting edge ecommerce platform helps more than 17 million customers in 46 countries reach their destination faster, cheaper and more conveniently by finding, booking and servicing the best travel deals out there. Our mission is to create a one-stop travel shop for our customers, with the most amazing travel booking experience across desktop, mobile and app.
For the last 20 years, we have been the leading European Online Travel Agent, at the forefront of innovation in travel tech. We are the only travel company to create a widely successful subscription programmes – our Prime membership. Our 1,000+ people work from multiple European countries, though our main offices are in Barcelona, Madrid, Porto and Milan. And we now plan to open up in Budapest.
If you are up for a challenge, you won’t find a more impactful or rewarding experience. Now is the perfect time to join us. eDreams is on an exciting journey to double its engineering team to deliver on its ambitious mission. We have a whole host of exciting plans for the next few years to reshape the face of travel and disrupt the travel industry, with
- new innovative travel products for our 20mn+ customers
- the best, fastest and most convenient travel platform out there
- cutting edge customer experiences and service for our 2mn+ Prime members.
So we are growing very rapidly out of the pandemic and are investing heavily in our Technology organisation, bringing opportunities for impact and growth galore.
What will you do?
As a Senior Lead Engineer or Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a large team of software engineers in our hub in Budapest, in addition to acting as a hands-on team leader for one of our existing development teams. In this role, you will play a critical part in our expansion across European locations. You will have the unique opportunity to build a hub from scratch, shape the way an entire product development domain evolves and have input into decisions that have a far broader impact on the eDreams business and its 17mn+ customers. All this while building a reputation and professional brand for yourself in the local market, and caring and developing a team of high performing engineers. The role will report into one of our Development Directors.
In this role, you can see yourself:
Technical/ product leadership
- Help 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
- Collaborate with Architecture to define the technical strategy for your modules and ensure their optimal performance
- Promote our standards of technical excellence, innovation and continuous improvement
- Work with Product and Business to shape the strategy and evolution of the product within your domain (Check-out), while identifying new business opportunities and product ideas
- Take the lead and accountability for the delivery of a cross-area initiative, helping all teams involved achieve the goals, identifying bottlenecks and preventing risks.
People leadership & Team management:
- Manage performance, set goals and prioritise work for your team, balancing the capacity of the team in the most effective way possible and improving team dynamics
- Act as a mentor, helping others develop their skills and professional career
Hub leadership
- Lead talent attraction, engagement and retention initiatives for your team and your hub
- Raise awareness of the eDO brand in your location through conferences and events
- Onboard the new joiners into the eDO culture of high performance, collaboration and growth
- Establish a sense of identity and belonging among the eDoers in your hub
- Act as a technical and general mentor, helping hub members develop their skills and professional career
- Look after the general welfare, engagement and practical support of eDoers in the hub
- Travel regularly to Barcelona for leadership meetings and special events
Requirements:
We are looking for an experienced leader, with at least 8-10 years experience in software development, who has led or even built teams of 20-30 people before. In addition, the key skills we are looking for:
- 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
Key technical skills and knowledge:
- Knowledge and experience with coding in Java 11, OO design, system design, performance tuning, performance engineering, design patterns, data modelling
- Java 11 and code base knowledge
- Experience with optimising ecommerce platforms
- Risk and project management
- Knowledge and experience with distributed, concurrent and scalable systems
What we have to offer:
- We support a great lifestyle and work-life-balance with our flexible hours and flexible remote work policy – it’s up to each team to decide what works for them
- 6-months all expenses paid trip to Barcelona for the first part of your contract to onboard into our ways of working and develop yourself as a leader
- Competitive compensation package with an attractive bonus structure. PLUS
- A free eDreams Prime subscription to benefit from significant discounts on your travels and hotel bookings,
- Special discounts in other local venues, such as gyms, restaurants, shops
- Additional prizes and awards for a variety of team and individual achievements
- Choose your equipment and really own it! You are allowed to choose the OS, laptop and monitor you want to work with and the equipment is totally yours after 3 years in the company.
- Continuous growth and learning
- Our Learning & Development programs give you access to tech talks, soft and technical skills trainings, external events, industry conferences etc.
- Free subscription to O’Reilly Online Learning.
- Language classes so that you learn the language of the country where you are relocating to or English classes so you get more proficient in the company official language
- Fast-track career development: with our unique programs tailored to your goals, you are always working towards the next step on your career path.
- A horizontal and transparent culture where continuous peer feedback is our mantra, and speaking up your own innovative ideas is a given.
- Choose your equipment and really own it! You are allowed to choose the OS, laptop and monitor you want to work with and the equipment is totally yours after 3 years in the company.
If you think that you have what it takes to become our next Budapest hub leader, you are passionate about development and think the role is as cool and exciting as we do, do not hesitate to apply.
