Job description
Engineering Lead (m/f/x)
Company Overview
reisetopia aims on becoming the leading luxury travel platform, combining traditional values like personal service with modern technology and a unique product. The luxury travel revolution has already expanded from Germany to Austria, Switzerland and France, but that's just the beginning. With our unique approach of combining an exclusive selection of the world's best hotels with various service elements like lightspeed responses, current travel information, limited time deals and informative guides, we offer an industry-leading product for today's luxury traveller and everyone who wants to become one.
Job Summary
As Engineering Lead (m/f/x), you will take on a central role in defining the technological direction and strategy, ensuring the scalability, security and reliability of our digital products. You will lead and mentor a top-notch engineering team, foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, and drive the development of solutions that directly contribute to the growth and success of our business.
Key Responsibilities
- You oversee all projects & tickets together with the Engineering Manager to predict approximate execution timelines, matching actual timelines
- You own product delivery and therefore, you are building efficient, scalable processes on how engineering work gets done together with our product team
- You are responsible for hiring new developers, assessing current capacities and proactively suggesting additions for the team, keeping budgets in mind
- You conduct yearly goal setting, feedback & result meetings with selected senior employees to fuel their development
- You contribute actively to the company’s strategic development as part of the management team
- You own the communication with all stakeholders, including our product lead, and make sure that priorities are aligned
- You keep up with industry trends, encourage innovation, and create opportunities for the engineering team to grow and develop their skills
- You communicate company and project goals to engineering team
- Technical enhancement and scalable expansion of your suitespot hotel search
- Focus on improving load times for both reisetopia website and the suitespot hotel search
- Development and expansion of our financial comparison tools as well as new technical solutions
Requirements / Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience in full-stack development and a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role
- Strong communication skills and proven team leadership capabilities
- Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills
- Excellent & proven problem-solving skills
- Strong understanding of modern TypeScript programming
- Experience in the frontend libraries React and Redux (or similar)
- Experience in backend frameworks like Express
- Knowledge using databases like MongoDB and Postgres
- Knowledge using testing tools like Jest and Playwright, Selenium or Cypress
- Knowledge in UI/UX
- Knowledge in Next.js and different rendering strategies
- Knowledge using serverless functions like AWS Lambda
- Knowledge using DevOps tools like GitHub Actions, Ansible, Jenkins and/or Docker
- Extensive experience managing complex projects and implementing process optimizations with measurable impact
- In-depth experience in creating and managing a scalable technical architecture
- Fluency in English
Preferred Qualifications
- Ideally experience in WordPress development (plugins and themes)
- Experience in page speed optimization and SEO optimization are a plus
- Ideally, experience working in a startup, especially in an ever evolving agile team
- German language skills are a plus
Location
Berlin, Germany
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Annual salary between 80,000 euros and 100,000 euros gross
- Flexible working hours and options for home or travel office
- Best working conditions in our office located close to Potsdamer Platz
- Deutschlandticket or job bike
- Lunch allowance and catering every Wednesday
- Internal and external education and training opportunities worth 500 euros per year
- Free barista coffee and various cold drinks, snacks and fresh fruits
- Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
- Cashback for booking via reisetopia Hotels
- Tax-free relocation support for your move to Berlin
- Modern and simple working time tracking
- Free and anonymous coaching for improving mental health
- Exclusive employee discounts for shopping, travel and much more
- Free weekend with reisetopia Hotels benefits at the Waldorf Astoria Berlin
