Lead Software Engineer
Core
Lead a team of engineers building scalable, high-performance systems for supplier integration, search, recommendation, real-time pricing, and AI-powered customer solutions in the travel industry.
Role type
Senior IC Lead Software Engineer (Travel Tech)
Builds
Supplier integration systems, high-performance search/recommendation engines, real-time pricing systems, ML-backed marketing optimization, booking/payment/fulfilment systems, and AI customer assistance tools.
Domain
Travel & Hospitality / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Technical leadership, team mentoring, system architecture design, scalable high-performance application development, observability, cloud services, containerization, testing & reliability, end-to-end ownership, TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python
Preferred skills
Extensive Go and Java experience, LLM automation, systems thinking, Kubernetes on Google Cloud, BigQuery data analysis, travel sector knowledge (via careerplan.io/jobs/594e48fa-6d6d-47f1-a35a-61aa2db08311-lead-software-engineer-at-loveholidays)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Google Cloud, BigQuery, TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and guidance, design system architectures meeting business goals, build and run services at scale in the cloud, mentor and grow the team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, adopt engineering principles.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
