Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical strategy and tactical delivery of ambitious projects to propel our Travel business
• Oversee three engineering managers and two staff level eng, providing coaching, helping resolve technical, people, and process challenges, and completing performance evaluation
• 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 quickly 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 or code reviews when appropriate

About You

• Highly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats and continuous learning, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business value
• Strong owner that has significant operating range, including an ability to get hands dirty in the code
• Positive and enthusiastic person who enjoys decoding problems, not just identifying them
• Empathetic people leader that provides well-defined growth opportunities for reports, and builds a strong culture
• 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

Preferred Experience

• Demonstrated excellence leading a team of teams with a focus on full-stack product development
• Have grown a team
• Strong track record of technical delivery of major features/products, and balancing delivery and quality
• 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 scaleup environment
• Experience with strategic initiatives such as OKR planning and organizational design

Bonus Points

• Working experience across a breadth of our existing infrastructure, languages and tools (python, node, react, postgres, redis, docker, aws, etc)
• Stepped into an existing org as a leader before