Lead Software Engineer, Microservices for Travel Platform

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment agency is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of a consumer travel app. You will lead projects in microservices architecture and mentor team members, ensuring fast user experiences using technologies like Scala, HBase, and Spark. Ideal candidates enjoy working in Agile environments and have a passion for learning and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an Agile development team.
• Proven track record in designing and developing microservices.
• Strong understanding of web service performance and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and technical execution for the consumer travel app.
• Align team members towards a shared vision and incrementally deliver value.
• Mentor and coach technical team members.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Agile development

Scala

HBase

Spark

Job description

A stellar opportunity to have massive impact: join the rapidly growing team at a company continually redefining how people travel. As Lead Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for many of the innovative features we’ll be working on, whether collaborating with our outstanding design and product team or helping our data science group work on the bleeding-edge to personalize travel for our ever expanding population of members.

In this role, you will:

• Lead future development and technical execution for the services that drive our consumer travel app
• Align and drive team members towards an inspiring vision, yet stage work to deliver value incrementally
• Deliver fast user experience for our customers, leveraging Scala and technologies like HBase, Spark, etc.
• As a hands-on lead, you will work closely with our team of software engineers and product managers to deliver rapid value.
• Collaborate directly with the company’s technology leadership on insuring our success
• Mentor and coach technical team members

A perfect candidate has:

• Thrived in complex microservices ecosystem and written robust and well-performing web services.
• A drive to iterate architecture in harmony with an agile workflow
• Designed and developed new microservices in an environment fueling the actions and experience of millions of users.
• Experience leading an Agile development team
• A love of learning and teaching

About the team

Our engineering team cares deeply about our growth and company successand tries to deliver the best possible experience we can to our more than 25 million users. Work on an award winning product that our customers love and continue to find exceptionally useful in a market and space that is continually growing every year.