Full-Time

Lead Platform Engineer

Frontend Platform

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

1,001-5,000 employees

Hospitality market insights and pricing platform

No salary listed

Barcelona, Spain

Remote

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Python
React.js
TypeScript
Go
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • Senior-level frontend engineering experience with the ability to independently turn ambitious goals into clear plans, direction, and delivered outcomes.
  • Strong professional experience with React and TypeScript.
  • Expert fluency with at least one AI development tool, including understanding how the tools work, where they fail, and how to create effective context, workflows, and guardrails.
  • Strong project-management habits for organizing work, communicating progress, answering questions, documenting decisions, and moving complex initiatives forward.
  • Comfort working beyond application code, including shared tooling, cloud infrastructure, and delivery pipelines.
  • Clear communication and the ability to build trusted relationships with product teams to drive adoption through education, support, and product context.
  • A pragmatic, product-minded approach to defending frontend best practices, setting direction collaboratively, and prioritizing by impact.
  • Initiative, openness to feedback, and willingness to defend a well-reasoned technical approach while remaining open-minded.
Responsibilities
  • Help product teams migrate to React by educating engineers and building tooling and guardrails that improve speed and quality.
  • Accelerate the React migration with AI tooling while maintaining a high quality bar.
  • Improve the consistency, maintainability, and reliability of frontend code produced by frontend engineers, product engineers, and AI agents.
  • Set direction for important initiatives by turning broad goals into actionable plans and balancing well-reasoned decisions with other perspectives.
  • Shape new ways of working by improving the frontend harness and workflows for AI-assisted development.
  • Establish foundations for generative user interfaces so agents can assemble high-quality views and dashboards from trusted design-system components.
  • Strengthen the design system as a dependable foundation for product experiences and AI-generated interfaces.
  • Turn broad goals into documented plans, manage delivery, communicate progress, and partner with product engineers and solution architects to understand needs and drive adoption.
  • Own AI-assisted frontend tooling and improve the frontend harness, shared foundations, infrastructure, and delivery pipelines supporting product teams, generative user interfaces, and AI agents.
Desired Qualifications
  • Product engineering experience.
  • Experience with design systems, particularly as foundations for reusable product experiences or AI-generated interfaces.
  • Experience with large-scale framework migrations.

Lighthouse is a platform for travel and hospitality that delivers market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools to understand demand and uncover revenue opportunities. It shows the competitive landscape, tracks ADR and RevPAR, manages OTA parity issues, and provides real-time distribution intelligence to optimize channel strategies. It also lets Destination Marketing Organizations monitor short-term rental impact and visitor trends to shape campaigns. Through a subscription service, hospitality professionals get live data, on-the-books rates, competitor calendars, and event insights to support data-driven decisions, with the goal of maximizing revenue, optimizing distribution, and improving partner relationships.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$470M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • KKR's $370 million November 2024 investment funds acquisitions, AI launches, and expansion.
  • The Hotels Network acquisition adds direct-booking conversion and personalization across 20,000 hotels.
  • Ernest beta and Revenue Agent target immediate productivity gains for revenue teams.

What critics are saying

  • Booking and Expedia own demand data, squeezing Lighthouse's pricing edge by 2027.
  • Betting on ChatGPT and agentic booking concentrates product relevance inside OpenAI's roadmap.
  • If hotels standardize on PMS-native AI tools, Lighthouse becomes a replaceable layer.

What makes Lighthouse unique

  • Lighthouse combines hotel pricing, distribution, marketing, and AI discovery in one platform.
  • Its 80,000-plus hotel footprint across 185 countries creates unmatched commercial data density.
  • ChatGPT booking app and Hotelrank.ai tie direct bookings to AI travel discovery.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Parental Leave

Referral Bonuses

Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
Associated Press
Jun 9th, 2026
Lighthouse launches Ernest, AI teammate that transforms general AI into hospitality performance tools

Lighthouse, a commercial operating platform for travel and hospitality, has launched Ernest, an AI assistant designed to bridge general AI models with hotel-specific operations. The system delivers intelligence, recommends actions and automates tasks across existing hospitality platforms. Ernest functions as a conversational interface that analyses data from property management systems, central reservation systems and booking channels. It provides competitive analysis, demand signals and management presentations whilst offering strategic recommendations based on hospitality context. With user approval, Ernest can automate tasks across more than 500 platform integrations. The AI assistant is currently available in beta for select customers, with broader global availability planned throughout 2026. Lighthouse positions Ernest as addressing fragmented systems and repetitive work facing revenue, marketing and distribution teams.

Lodging Magazine
May 28th, 2026
Lighthouse acquires Hotelrank.ai to help hotels track AI platform rankings and boost direct bookings

Lighthouse has acquired Hotelrank.ai, adding real-time analytics to its Connect AI solution. The integration enables hotels to monitor their rankings, perception and booking performance across AI travel platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini and Anthropic. Hotelrank.ai tracks how properties appear in AI-generated responses, monitoring citations, rankings and competitive positioning. Hotels can now measure their AI visibility scores, analyse direct versus OTA link distribution, and benchmark against competitors. The combined platform allows hotels to optimise for AI-powered discovery and direct bookings. CEO Sean Fitzpatrick stated that hotels mastering "agentic discovery and conversion" early will gain competitive advantage. The solution aims to prepare properties for future autonomous AI agent bookings, enabling them to capture increased demand from this emerging channel.

LiveLawBiz
Apr 8th, 2026
CCI approves Citrus Investment's 0.4% stake increase in Hitachi Construction Machinery and HCJI takeover

The Competition Commission of India has approved a transaction involving Citrus Investment LLC and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Ltd. Under the deal, Citrus will acquire an additional 0.4% stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery through stock market purchases and take sole control of HCJI Holdings KK, a joint venture previously jointly owned. Citrus is an investment firm that holds shares without operating businesses. Hitachi Construction Machinery is a listed manufacturer of construction equipment, whilst HCJI functions solely as a holding entity. The regulator said a detailed order will follow.

Associated Press
Mar 4th, 2026
Hotels can now take commission-free bookings directly through ChatGPT via Lighthouse's new app

Lighthouse has launched The Hotels Network app, the first direct booking application for hotels within ChatGPT. Powered by Lighthouse's Connect AI engine, the app enables hotels to present brand-controlled content, live rates and commission-free bookings directly in AI conversations. The app operates on a flat-fee subscription model with zero booking commissions and is available to hotels worldwide. It allows properties to control their brand narrative, display direct rates and answer traveller queries inside ChatGPT, which now reaches over 800 million users globally. Built on the Model Context Protocol standard, Connect AI creates a live data bridge between hotels and AI platforms, ensuring recommendations draw on accurate, real-time property information rather than scraped summaries. The app is now live in the ChatGPT App Directory.

PhocusWire
May 28th, 2025
Moving Beyond Points: The State Of Hotel Loyalty Programs

The points-based loyalty program—once the gold standard of. guest retention—may no longer be the universal magnet it once was. In today’s. fractured hospitality landscape, loyalty is becoming more personal, digital and