Lead Engineer PHP- Accommodation

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We’re seeking an experienced Lead Engineer PHP to join our Accommodation team in Barcelona (Hybrid) to develop and leverage the best e-commerce technology to create a one-stop-shop for our customers, where they can find the best hotel for their needs and experience amazing post-booking service in our best-rated mobile app. If you’re ready to soar, we’re ready to take you there.

Join the world’s leading travel subscription platform and one of the largest e-commerce businesses in Europe.

Millions of customers every year across 44 markets – 5 brands – 7.7M members in Prime

More than 100 million searches per day – Up to 6 billion daily AI predictions[e1]

Over 1,700 employees – More than 60 different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts – 36 average age

We’re the world’s leading travel subscription platform and one of the largest e-commerce businesses in Europe. We are a tech company revolutionising the travel booking experience through our consumer insight, innovative technology, market leadership, and Prime, the world’s first travel subscription program.

The Role’s Key Responsibilities and Tasks

You will be leveraging the entire product development process from upstream ideation to downstream delivery of our ambitions. Having an empowered, engaged team will drive us to the best outcomes, so you will make a specific effort to create, retain and motivate this team, enabling them to fly high.

This role is for an experienced engineering people manager who understands the magic of software development processes at scale and appreciates the challenges of powering ultra-high volume transactional systems with an ambition of quasi-real-time response times and stellar reliability.

Having direct impact on our overall business objectives with accommodation products at the heart of our efforts for this year and the next to come.

As an eDOer, you will have clear objectives, great challenges and a clear overview of how your work contributes to the global company project and its customers. As a Lead Engineer PHP in the Accommodationyou will be in charge of:

• Work with a top-notch tech stack such as PHP 8.2, Maria
  
  DB, Redis, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Click House, Kong, Docker, GCP, Grafana, Kibana, AI tools
• Actively participate in the product definition and ideation processes.
• Code solutions with the highest quality through good design, attention to detail and test quality.
• Work in a fully agile organisation, using Kanban practices to deliver business value continuously.
• Own and monitor the performance of product and technical OKRs.
• Help the team grow by mentoring more junior team members to continue improving, giving feedback and sharing your expertise.
• Challenge decisions, be proactive and seek to improve technical excellence.

Good to have

Bring your unique perspective, speak up, and offer disruptive solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow while making a real impact on our team. Here’s what you need to succeed:

• People Manager of a team of at least 2-3 years of experience
• Coaching and mentoring is a passion
• Strategic mindset and can-do attitude
• More than 7 years experience with PHP and knowledge of Java is of advantage
• Strong knowledge of engineering fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, design patterns, algorithms).
• Great technical mindset to work in an environment where we promote the use of microservices platforms, clean code, SOLID principles and TDD.
• Strong data driven capabilities and that will allow you to face our business challenges.
• Knowledge of Cloud and of Continuous Delivery environments to help you deliver value quickly.
• Ability to analyse, challenge decisions constructively and provide creative solutions to complex problems, focusing on the outcome and not on the tasks.

• Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-powered coding assistants.
• Experimentation Mindset: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and…