HomeToGo is the marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners, including Booking.com, Vrbo and TripAdvisor. From vacation homes, cabins, beach houses, apartments, condos, houseboats, castles, farm stays and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.
Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps & websites in 25 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Tripping.com and Wimdu.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll be a part of a passionate and innovative Search and Ranking team, focused on building high-performance services that are the backbone of HomeToGo’s Search. Our goal is to Make Customers Successful by delivering the most relevant list of accommodation offers for every vacation rental search. To achieve that, we especially rely on strong collaboration with our Data Science team, where we co-own Machine Learning components that optimise the ranking of our search results. Our developers are involved in the full software life-cycle and have exposure to a broad set of technologies. You will lead our Search Engineering Team, contribute to setting and executing team goals, plan the team’s work, as well as coach and mentor team members. You will also execute engineering initiatives hands-on with high autonomy and ensure a healthy ratio between technical excellence and business impact. The expected distribution of team leading vs individual contribution activities is 50/50.
In this role, you will
- Plan and organise quarterly goals and the day-to-day activities of the team, facilitate career growth discussions and conduct performance reviews
- Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to refine requirements, divide work into clear milestones, identify blockers, ensure effective cross-team collaboration
- Facilitate technical conversations within and outside the team
- Collaborate with the team to develop features and ensure their success through our in-house A/B testing platform
- Choose adequate technical and business metrics to monitor features and manage risks
- Write clean, efficient and maintainable code, evangelising coding standards and best practices to ensure the platform's stability and scalability
- Continuously challenge status quo to and improve our services
- Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context
- Coach / mentor team members, foster a collaborative and high-performance culture
What you will bring
- At least 5 years of experience in senior engineering roles, including leadership experience
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills to effectively manage and motivate a team
- Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners, as well as define and execute OKRs using agile principles
- Excellent knowledge of C# and .NET
- Experience with multiple programming languages and technologies, or a strong willingness to continuously learn and adapt to new technological challenges
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD (or similar) and deploying containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in logging and monitoring system performance using Prometheus and Grafana (or similar)
- Background in building highly scalable, performant, and mission-critical services
- Fluency in English
What we offer
- Career of growth opportunities and promotions, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international and distinguished team
- Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy and quarterly transparency about company goals. A focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities
- Compensation of attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin
If you have any questions, please contact me [email protected] or via Linkedin
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