Frontend Lead Engineer - Travelthings

eDreams ODIGEO; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation support

Equipment lifecycle program

Job summary

eDreams ODIGEO is seeking a Lead Engineer to guide a cross‑functional team focused on Front End and AI within our Travel Things product. You will shape capabilities for personalized travel experiences, optimize the funnel, and drive revenue through real‑time decisioning.

Based in Barcelona or Milan with hybrid work, you will partner with product, data science, and UX to deliver high‑impact features, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience as Lead Engineer with tech leadership in a B2C or product-led organization.
• Hands-on experience applying machine learning or AI to product problems.
• Experience integrating ML models into production systems or working with data scientists.
• Solid understanding of personalization strategies and their impact on conversion or monetization.
• Experience building distributed systems and REST APIs.
• A product mindset and focus on measuring outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of driving initiatives with measurable funnel or revenue impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team of backend and frontend engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and UX designers to deliver high-impact features.
• Drive the adoption of ML models and personalization frameworks into customer-facing features.
• Ensure engineering quality through design reviews and testing standards.
• Measure and improve team performance and delivery cadence.
• Mentor and coach engineers on technical and leadership paths.
• Align with other engineering teams for a unified technical strategy.

Skills

Tech leadership

Lead engineer

ML/AI in product

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Product mindset

Stakeholder management

Frontend leadership

Tools

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Job description

Lead Engineer – Front End & AI (Travel Things) - (Hybrid)

As you contemplate your future, you might be asking yourself, what's the next step? Start your journey with us!

We're seeking an experienced Lead Engineer – Front End & AI to join our Travel Things Team in our Barcelona or Milan (hybrid) to optimize the funnel experience, conversion & Revenue Optimization through the personalization. If you're ready to soar, we're ready to take you there.

Why eDreams ODIGEO

We’re the world's leading travel subscription platform.

• We pioneered Prime, the first and world’s leading travel subscription programme since launching in 2017.
• Millions of Prime members every year across multiple markets
• 5 brands: eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink, and the metasearch engine Liligo
• This entire Prime experience is powered by a proprietary, industry-leading AI platform that delivers a smarter, hyper-personalised service and comprehensive travel experience globally to its members.
• Diversity is our strength that’s why our eDOers are coming from different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts

Prime members are subscribed to global travel, gaining access to a comprehensive multi-product offering for all their travel needs—including hotels, rail, flights, dynamic packages and car rental, among others— compounded by industry-leading flexibility features and exclusive, member-only benefits.

What you will do:

The Role's Key Responsibilities and Tasks

At eDreams ODIGEO, we are building a personalized and intelligent travel experience for more than 20 million customers every year. We believe the future of travel lies in hyper-personalization, real-time decisioning, and AI-driven product experiences — and we’re looking for an outstanding Lead Engineer to help us get there.

As a Lead Engineer in our Travel Things product area, you will guide a cross-functional team responsible for shaping and creating capabilities about how we sell and optimize products that make trips better — such as seats, bags, insurance, guarantees, car rental and private transport, and more.

You’ll be at the heart of our strategy to:

• Increase conversion in our booking funnel through smarter user journeys.
• Grow revenue margin per booking by leveraging AI and machine learning to personalize the offer at every step.
• Leverage on real time data for covering the customer specific needs tailoring the offer of our products portfolio.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead a high-performing team of backend and frontend web engineers, fostering growth, ownership, and technical excellence.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and UX designers to create, validate and deliver high-impact product features.
• Drive the adoption of machine learning models, AI systems, and personalization frameworks into customer-facing features.
• Ensure engineering quality through technical design reviews, code reviews, and setting high standards for testing and delivery.
• Measure, understand and improve the team performance constantly keeping our high-performance team standards high.
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping them grow in both their technical and leadership paths.
• Align closely with other engineering teams across the company to ensure a strong technical strategy and consistent delivery cadence.

What you need to succeed:

Good to have

Bring your unique perspective, speak up, and offer disruptive solutions. You'll have the opportunity to learn and grow while making a real impact on our team. Here's what you need to succeed:

• Proven experience as a Lead Engineer with tech leadership, ideally in B2C or product-led organizations.
• Previous knowledge or strong interest and/or hands-on experience applying machine learning or AI to product problems.
• Experience integrating ML models into production systems or working closely with data scientists is a big plus.
• Solid understanding of personalization strategies (e.g. recommendations, targeting, contextual relevance) and how they impact conversion or monetization.
• Ability to break down complex systems and make pragmatic decisions that drive business impact.
• Experience building distributed systems and REST APIs.
• A product mindset: you care deeply about solving real user problems and measuring outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — you’re comfortable driving conversations with Product, Design, Data Science and directly reporting to Directors.
• Track record of driving initiatives that had measurable impact on funnel performance or revenue KPIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-powered coding assistants.
• Experimentation Mindset: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and integrate emerging AI-driven solutions into software development workflows.
• AI-Enhanced Problem Solving: Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to debug code, streamline development processes, and enhance productivity.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Enthusiastic about continuously learning and quickly adapting to new AI features and capabilities.
• Collaboration with AI: Experience or interest in collaborating closely with AI tools as “pair programmers” to complement traditional software development practices.

What’s in it for you?

The best talent deserves the best benefits

At eDO, we want you to be a part of our success story and great culture.

Here’s what we offer:

• A rewarding Compensation package! Prime Plus membership, competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible benefits, performance-based bonuses, birthday day off, discounts and partnerships, relocation support and premium equipment with role-based selection options and device ownership through our equipment lifecycle program when it reaches its refresh cycle.
• Continuous learning to fuel your growth and explore new horizons! Learn and grow with free Coursera access, soft skills workshops, tech training, leadership development, and more. Plus, enjoy a great onboarding program.
• Grow opportunities to empower your career, and unleash your potential! Personalised career paths and the eVOLVE Program will help you discover, grow, and thrive. Internal mobility opportunities let you pursue horizontal career changes and promotions.
• Your Well-being is our Priority. Embrace Freedom and Flexibility! At eDO, we value flexibility, employee care, and transparency. We offer a hybrid home-office model focused on outcome. You’ll be able to find the right work-personal life balance that suits you best.
• Work hard, party hard! We believe in having fun and connecting with colleagues! Join eDO for after-work events, padel tournaments, parties, and more. Create communities based on your passions, like sports and music. Come to work as you are, with no dress code, and enjoy free fruit, coffee, and tea at our offices.
• Enjoy a dynamic and healthy environment! Be innovative, take risks, and share your ideas. Our diverse and open-minded teams support high performance, learning, and growth. You’ll work in an Agile mindset environment with recognition at our core.

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If you are ready for a career opportunity with unmatched benefits, continuous learning, and a supportive work-life balance, look no further!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Our people are the key to our success. Each one of them is unique in their own way and the respect for their uniqueness is and will always be a passion and motivation. Don’t meet every requirement? If you’re excited about this role but do not feel your experience aligns perfectly with all the requirements we strongly encourage you to apply nevertheless.