Engineering Lead, Post Booking Optimization - Travel Tech

Flight Centre Travel Group; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fun culture and team events

Travel perks/discounts

Health & Wellness Programs

401k program with match

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Flight Centre Travel Group USA, based in Boston, seeks an Engineering Lead to own the Post Booking Optimization solution. You will shape architecture across hotel and air domains, drive integrations, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, observable systems that operate safely at scale.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled improvements, auditable decisions, and a modernized tech stack, collaborating with product and operations to achieve better rates and seamless experiences for

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, with architecture/lead capacity.
• Experience owning architecture across multiple teams.
• Backend with distributed, event-driven systems in production.
• Experience integrating third-party systems with retries, idempotency, and vendor SLAs.
• Proven in cloud-native delivery and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution design for Post Booking Optimization across hotel and air.
• Maintain architectural blueprint and explicit trade-offs across teams.
• Oversee build, design reviews, and ensure delivery matches design.
• Act as technical counterpart for external contributors and align interfaces.
• Drive integrations across hotel and air content, mid-office, ticketing, and invoicing.
• Design integrations so providers can be added without a rebuild.
• Estimate engineering sizing and clarify requirements for sizing.
• Design scalable end-to-end system with manual steps identified.
• Establish observability, alerts, and SLAs for unattended operation with kill-switches by market.
• Evaluate AI/automation to improve outcomes while keeping auditability.
• Champion AI-assisted SDLC and modernize technology stack and ways of working.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Contribute to a safe, inclusive environment.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Backend engineering

Cloud & CI/CD

AI integration

Observability

Remote collaboration

Education

Degree in tech/engineering

Tools

Azure

Containers (Docker)

CI/CD tools

Infrastructure as code

Test automation

Job description

Flight Centre Travel Group USA, based in Boston, seeks an Engineering Lead to own the Post Booking Optimization solution. You will shape architecture across hotel and air domains, drive integrations, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, observable systems that operate safely at scale.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled improvements, auditable decisions, and a modernized tech stack, collaborating with product and operations to achieve better rates and seamless experiences for