Engineering Lead, Post-Booking Optimization

Flight Centre Travel Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel perks/discounts

Health & Wellness Programs

401k with match

Paid Time Off and holidays

Job summary

Flight Centre Travel Group is seeking an Engineering Lead for Post Booking Optimization in New York. You will own the end-to-end solution design, drive architecture across multiple teams, and lead integrations with hotel and air content providers.

The role focuses on scalable, autonomous systems with AI-assisted development and strong governance. You will guide cross-functional teams, ensure delivery aligns with design, and champion modernization of the technology stack while maintaining

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with design/architecture/technical lead experience.
• Ability to own and drive architecture across multiple teams to a single design.
• Track record of delivering technical work through influence rather than direct reports.
• Strong backend engineering with distributed, event-driven systems.
• Experience integrating third-party systems with retries, idempotency, and versioning.
• Experience in cloud-native delivery (Azure preferred), containers, CI/CD, IaC, and test automation.
• Experience with systems where automated behavior has real financial or customer impact.
• Ability to automate manual production processes incrementally
• Grounded in travel tech: GDS, NDC, hotel/air content, booking workflows.
• Ability to explain trade-offs to business stakeholders without oversimplifying.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution design for Post Booking Optimization across hotel and air.
• Maintain architectural blueprint ensuring alignment across teams.
• Oversee design reviews and ensure delivery matches design.
• Coordinate with external teams and elevate priority/funding questions.
• Drive integrations with partner platforms (hotel/air content, mid-office, invoicing).
• Design partner integrations to minimize rebuilds when providers change.
• Own estimation and sizing of engineering work.
• Design scalable end-to-end system, including manual steps left in place.
• Establish observability, alerts, and SLAs for unattended systems.
• Explore AI/automation to improve outcomes while ensuring auditability and determinism.
• Champion AI-assisted SDLC across design, build, testing, review.
• Drive modernisation of tech stack and ways of working.
• Perform other duties; promote inclusive, safe work environment.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native engineering

Azure

CI/CD

Event-driven design

Observability

AI in software delivery

Cross-team leadership

Technical delivery

Education

Degree in Technology or Engineering

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Flight Centre Travel Group is seeking an Engineering Lead for Post Booking Optimization in New York. You will own the end-to-end solution design, drive architecture across multiple teams, and lead integrations with hotel and air content providers.

The role focuses on scalable, autonomous systems with AI-assisted development and strong governance. You will guide cross-functional teams, ensure delivery aligns with design, and champion modernization of the technology stack while maintaining