Frontend Engineer Lead - Content

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized - enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience - time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago you will find those who aren't afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Join us in making a difference

As a Frontend Engineering Lead for the Content team, you'll help make our hotel price comparison more informative and useful for millions of daily users. You'll coach and grow a small group of software engineers while staying hands-on with the code — sitting right at the intersection of product strategy and engineering. trivago is a place where ambition and support go hand in hand — we hold high standards and genuinely invest in each other's growth. Leading here means giving your team clarity on priorities while adapting your approach to how each person grows best. You'll also model what it means to lead with an AI-first mindset, investing time daily in AI-powered workflows and helping your engineers do the same. If you're ready to pair technical craft with real people leadership, we'd love to hear from you.

How you'll make an impact:

• Coach and mentor a group of 3-4 Software Engineers, providing feedback and identifying training opportunities so they keep growing and use the full range of their talents.
• Contribute hands-on to engineering projects and be a role model of good engineering practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to combine different perspectives into a joint plan of action.
• Define team OKRs and translate strategic priorities into actionable, well-executed plans for the Content Frontend team — including fast, test-driven iterations that ship in days, not months.
• Adapt your leadership style to meet each team member where they are — building confidence through delegation and empowering people to grow into greater ownership over time.
• Foster a trust-based environment where candid feedback flows freely, diverse perspectives are heard, and healthy challenge leads to better outcomes.

What you'll need to thrive:

• You have prior experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, and hands-on experience with React — ideally also Next.js and GraphQL — along with comfort working in a fast-paced, A/B-testing-heavy environment.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring a team — with a track record of helping others grow while delivering results, and confident, direct communication skills to work with senior stakeholders.
• The ability to adapt your leadership style situationally — knowing when to direct, when to coach, when to support, and when to delegate based on each team member's needs and readiness.
• A genuine learning mindset — you approach challenges with curiosity, seek out feedback, and continuously look for ways to develop and grow.
• A performance mindset — you set ambitious goals for yourself and the team, with the determination and resilience to follow through and achieve them.
• A hands-on, daily commitment to pushing AI tools to their limits in real workflows — and a drive to enable your team to do the same, treating AI fluency as a core leadership expectation, not an add-on.

Not ticking every box? We still want to hear from you. Apply, tell us what motivates you, and you could be a great match — now or in the future. Your application does not need to include a photo. This is the recruitment process you can expect for this role (subject to modifications):

• Hireflix: one-way video interview
• Introduction call
• Technical interview with the team (live coding, ~60 min)
• System Design interview with the team (60 min)
• Collaboration interview with stakeholders
• Final interview

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What you can look forward to:

trivago is a place where technical ambition meets genuine investment in your growth — here's what you can look forward to:

Own your stack.
We give engineers real agency over technical decisions. You'll work in small, autonomous teams with direct access to production, where your choices have measurable impact and your input actively shapes how we build.

Stay sharp with dedicated learning opportunities.
Beyond our campus library and free online courses, engineers get access to specialist technical meetups, internal guilds, architecture reviews, certifications, specialist tools, and hands-on experimentation time.

Ship fast, learn faster.
We run a continuous deployment culture with short feedback loops. You'll move from idea to production in days — with the autonomy, tooling, and trust to iterate quickly and own your outcomes end to end.

AI-native engineering environment.
We actively invest in AI tooling for developers — including coding assistants, AI-powered workflows, and dedicated experimentation time. We build it into how we work.

As you grow, so do we.
This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Enjoy your office days.
Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.

Moving to join us?
No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and many company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens.
We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, up to 2 work from home days weekly. Additionally you can work remotely from a different location, within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year. You also get free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.
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