Engineering Team Lead Lisboa

Engineering Team Lead
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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Hostelworld Group, the global
- focussed online booking platform, inspires adventurous minds to meet the world and come back with
- changing stories to tell. Our customers are not your average tourists, they crave cultural connection and unique experiences that we make possible by providing an unbeatable selection of hostels in unmissable locations – all in the palm of their hand.

It is the social nature and community feel of hostels and their environment, that enable travellers to embrace journeys of discovery, adventure and meaning. We have more than 13 million reviews across 17, 800 hostels in more than 179 countries, making the brand the leading online hub for social travel. The website operates in 19 different languages and our mobile app in 13 languages.

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dublin, Hostelworld has a growing,
- calibre team of 230 people within Technology, Product, Global Markets, HR, Finance & Legal and Marketing Teams across our Dublin, London, Porto, Shanghai and Sydney offices. Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Dublin Euronext. You can read more about our story here.

This role is based in Portugal. We have an office hub in Porto available for those who prefer a hybrid model where you can spend time with colleagues
- person. You will need to be able to commute to our office hub as required from time to time.

You will lead an established team of 3 Developers and a QA Engineer. Your team, working alongside our team of Principal Engineers (PEs), Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Database Admins (DBAs), will deliver a redesign of the Hostelworld API Platforms Search APIs. Your team will consist of a mix between existing Hostelworld developers and newly hired contractors and will work with to deliver the new suite of APIs using Node. Js, Mongo
DB and Apigee Gateway all deployed on GCP Cloud. The design relies heavily on Microservice Architectural design patterns and in particular Event Streaming. You will be expected to act as a Technical and Agile Leader, to grow people, collaborate with others, identify and amplify value.

The role requires both killer tech and people management skills. You’ll be responsible for:

• Evolving our Technical Direction/Architecture/Best Practices by working with our Architects and our Architectural Community of Practice (Co
  P).
• Communicating the Technical Direction/Architecture/Best Practices established by the Co
  P to your team ensuring they are understood and.
• Developing the teams Scrum processes with an emphasis on creating a
  - organising team that focuses on delivering value into Production constantly.
• Mentor team members. Ensure they receive frequent performance feedback and are continuously learning.
• Work your Team, Business and Technical stakeholders to plan/scope features via quarterly planning sessions.
• Understand which projects are on track and which are blocked and escalate as required.
• Ensure that applications developed by your team are consistently monitored for Latency, Errors, and cost.
• Own Latency, Velocity, Reliability and Cost KPIs for services owned by your team
• Create and support a rewarding working environment that aligns with the company culture.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years professional development experience in Node. Js using typescript.
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns (particularly within the Microservice Architecture)
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Cloud Native applications (we use GCP)
• Strong experience with No
  SQL DBs (we use Firestore and Mongo)
• Strong CI/CD experience
• Experience working with remote teams.
• Preferred experience with an API Gateway (we use Apigee).
• Previous experience with Maria
  DB and PHP would be ‘nice to have’.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (proficient in both spoken and written English)
• Excellent analytical /
  - solving ability.
• Ability to understand software development in terms of business value.
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• A
  - starter who is
  - focused
• Competitive salary & benefits
• Enhanced annual leave plus 3 Wellbeing Days per year
• Paid family leave (maternity, paternity, surrogacy & adoption)
• Agile working (plus a Working from Abroad Policy!)
• Support for your ongoing growth & development
• Inclusive people policies (sickness, menopause, compassionate and fertility leave)
• A chance to give back to your local community with 5 paid volunteering days

We believe in talented and diverse teams that reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences. We lay out the above requirements to guide applicants to the experiences that we believe will allow you to be successful in the role. If you don’t meet them all, please consider applying if you think you can still perform the role as described.

Seniority level

- Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

- Employment type

Full-time

Job function

- Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

- Industries

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