Engineering Lead - Ruby

Flight Centre Travel Group; East London; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel company in South Africa is seeking an experienced Technical Leader to drive innovation in their engineering team. The role combines technical and strategic leadership, focusing on designing solutions and optimizing processes. Ideal candidates should have 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails and strong communication skills. This position offers generous benefits, including travel discounts and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Travel discounts

25 Days Off plus 5 Compensation days

Free language learning platform

Employee Retention Share Scheme

Social events

Discounts with GymApp

Coffee, drinks, snacks at office

Focus on professional development

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience working in Scrum or similar environments.
• Strong communication ability, both in private and public.

Responsibilities

• Design and create new solutions for customers.
• Lead technical excellence and mitigate outages.
• Adjust team processes based on feedback.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Communication ability

Team player

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Scrum

Job description

About Flight Centre Travel Group

Flight Centre Travel Group is one of the world’s largest travel companies with over 12,000 employees globally - who we call ‘Flighties’. With over thirty brands under our family tree and headquarters in more than twenty countries, our roles are diverse and our opportunities are endless. When, we say we’re a great place to work, we have the proof to back it up. Over the past 12 years we’ve been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ including one of the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women. Together, we live and breathe our number one philosophy, our people, and turn up each day driven by our purpose to open up the world for those who want to see. Put simply, we’re a bunch of travel lovers looking for more travel lovers to join our family.

About The Opportunity...

Are you a engineering leader or a seasoned developer ready to step into technical leadership? We're seeking an experienced engineer to drive innovation and excellence in a dynamic, international environment.

Lead a talented team in designing cutting-edge solutions for both internal and external customers. You'll be the technical visionary, ensuring system reliability, championing best practices, and actively shaping our product roadmap. This role combines hands‑on technical work with strategic leadership - from mitigating outages to optimizing team processes and advocating for your team's mission across the organization.

As The Technical Leader Of The Team

• Designs and creates new solutions that are widely used either by internal or external customers.
• Leads the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages.
• Adjust the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through changes.
• Challenge the architecture and automation processes.
• Support the internal organisation of the team.
• Be an active participant of the roadmap elaboration alongside the Head of Engineering and the Product team.
• Be an advocate of the mission of the team within company.

Experience & Qualifications...

• Strong programming skills.
• Ideally 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience working in Scrum or similar.

Other Requirements...

• A strong communication ability, both in private and in public.
• You are comfortable working in an international team, in English.
• Also, Spanish or French would be a plus.
• Knowledge of business travel will be a real asset.
• You know how to be a team player.

Your Benefits...

• Tick destinations off your bucket list with our discounts on travel and accommodation.
• Enjoy 25 Days Off per year plus 5 Compensation days!
• Learn a new language with our free language learning platform (Global Exam).
• Employee Retention Share Scheme through Equate Plus.
• Various social events.
• Enjoy our discounts with GymApp.
• Complementary coffee, drinks, snacks and fruits at our Barcelona office location.
• A strong focus on professional development to support you in the evolution of your career.

Our number one philosophy is Our people. Flight Centre Travel Group's promise is to provide an environment with equality of respect, dignity and opportunity for all our employees. We value an inclusive and supportive workplace which reflects the diversity of our society.

We welcome accommodation requests to help make our hiring and onboarding experience as accessible as possible. Please advise us about accommodation needs at any point by contacting our Recruitment Team at [e-mail].

Irreverence. Ownership. Egalitarianism.