About you

• Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats and continuous learning, and looking forward to working in a scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
• Strong owner that has significant operating range, including stepping in to get hands dirty in the code
• Positive and inspired person who enjoys finding a solution to problems, not just identifying them
• Caring people leader that provides well-defined growth opportunities for reports
• Strategic thinker who looks forward to working closely with business and product stakeholders
• Strong communicator
• Interested in working with our stack - React on the frontend, Python/Node on the backend, AWS infrastructure
• Data-driven and dives deep into problems
• Interested in a role with: 5-10% IC, 30-35% Tech leadership, 20% Collaboration/stakeholder management, 5-10% Hiring, 30% Team/people management

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical strategy and delivery of substantial projects aimed at propelling our Travel business
• Oversee engineering managers, providing coaching, helping resolve technical, people, and process obstacles, and completing performance evaluations  
• Be a key contributor to quarterly OKR planning in partnership with the product team, ensuring a healthy contribution of initiatives from engineers, rigorous prioritization, and capacity planning
• Ensure appropriate distribution of initiatives across teams and have well-defined collaboration interfaces between travel eng teams and eng teams in other verticals
• Key contributor to engineering architecture discussions and designs
• Work with travel engineering teams to continually improve our product development lifecycle
• Oversee travel engineering hiring and organizational structure
• Ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building efficiently and building sustainably
• Contribute to cross-vertical initiatives such as establishing best practices, guilds, and product development lifecycle improvements
• Get your hands dirty in the code when appropriate

Preferred Experience

• Demonstrated excellence leading a team of teams with a focus on full-stack product development
• Stepped into an existing org as a leader before
• Been a hiring manager
• Strong track record of technical delivery of major features/products, and balancing delivery and quality
• Been at least a Senior Software Engineer or Technical lead for 3+ years
• Strong knowledge of modern web technologies/tools/microservices
• Strong depth with at least one of backend/frontend web development, and at least intermediate depth in the other
• Comfortable with at least one of JS or Python  
• Worked with services at scale
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
• Experience with strategic initiatives such as OKR planning and organizational design

Nice to have

• Working experience across a breadth of our existing infrastructure, languages and tools (python, node, react, postgres, redis, docker, aws, etc)

We’ve got you covered

• Competitive salary packages, equity options, great benefits from day one, wellness budgets, as well as personal and team-level development budgets  
• We are remote first – you have the flexibility to work from around the world and the hours that make sense for you– so that you can do your best work while living life on your own terms 
• Other perks include: unlimited PTO, recharge days, travel discounts on SuperTravel, Weekly UberEats credit, annual company offsite 
• We welcome new family additions with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan
• This is just scratching the surface– see our careers site for a more detailed overview of our perks & benefits