We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About The Role

As a Lead JavaScript Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional or practice team that enables software development skills and capabilities across the entire domain. You will own software products from conception to operation, taking full responsibility for applications and supporting your team in delivering the best solutions to our customers’ needs. The Lead JavaScript Engineer is a practitioner and an advocate of state-of-the-art software development practices, developing software products with a broad toolkit of technologies and methods and with a strong DevSecOps mindset, being able to tackle the whole software development cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying applications. Working in an agile environment and keeping up with the ever-evolving technical landscape the Lead Front End Software Engineer is a lifelong learner and likes to think outside the box.

Project Description: Our Client is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. Product and Engagement Master Domain is a global team within Client technology responsible for the delivery and support of our customer facing websites and the end-to-end value chains supporting these. We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Agile Delivery providing services across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands. We are ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal. We never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognise the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

Responsibilities

Creating technical designs as ADR to address software design challenges
Resolving multiple-component architectural dependencies
Working closely with the Technology Team Leads to align on technical direction, goals, and dependencies
Communicating effectively with various stakeholders, including Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Architects
Leading design discussions and ensuring adherence to UI/UX principles
Driving a DevOps mindset and automation across development and operations
Overseeing the implementation of security best practices, including authentication and authorisation strategies
Collaborating on deployment and release strategies
Support the Product Manager in backlog prioritisation based on technical needs
Contributing to documentation, process improvements, and technical training
Fostering a culture of continuous learning through demos, workshops, and pair programming
Applying an advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems, taking ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives spanning across the domain
Striving for a high degree of automation, clean architectures, and high quality with a customer-centric mindset
Selecting and guiding teams to use the right tools for the right job, solving business and technical problems efficiently
Demonstrating a commercial mentality, focusing on solving business problems in the best way
Working in a cloud environment, especially AWS, and developing resilient and high- performing cloud-native applications
Leveraging AWS services and cloud design patterns in a micro-service and micro- frontend landscape
Managing the full cycle of designing, building, testing, and deploying software and contributing to increasing automation
Clearly verbalizing thoughts and ideas, and taking the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes
Researching, evaluating, and testing new approaches, processes, and tools together with the domain’s Practice teams and Group Enabler teams, and helping teams to use them effectively
Being well-connected across the domain, within the broader community and relevant Communities of Practice
Thriving in an international, multi-cultural team
Challenging constructively and maintaining high expectations of yourself and others
Driving technical excellence, ownership, and self-organisation at both the team and personal level
Regularly coaching, guiding, and developing more junior colleagues
Continuously learning and acquiring new skills, keeping up to date with the latest developments in your focus areas

Requirements

Full SDLC:
Requirement analysis
Planning
Software design, such as architectural design
Software development
Testing
Deployment
Strong expertise in JavaScript language (e.g. ES6/7/8/next, TypeScript) as well as its eco-system and tooling
Deep knowledge of HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, and other aspects of frontend and client- side development
Expertise in React, SCSS (+Eleventy, njk, NodeJS as a big plus)
Expert knowledge of DOM
Strong experience in applying and suggesting best practices and design patterns
Strong experience with MicroFrontends and Microservices architecture
Knowledge of Terraform, AWS CDK
Deep expertise in cloud design, infrastructure as code, tools and services on AWS
Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI
Deep knowledge of UI/UX design principles, tooling and workflows to build an engaging user experience
Excellent understanding of front-end delivery and performance aspects (infrastructure, HTTP protocol, etc.), analysis and optimisation
Great experience in Monitoring and Alerting
Experience with consuming resource-oriented APIs (REST, GraphQL)
Quality: involvement in building testing strategy, understanding of various types of testing and their purpose
Understanding of Agile development methodologies
Experience or interest in mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels through training sessions and pair programming
Ability to collaborate closely with the Technology Team Lead to ensure team alignment and success
Ability to design, build, test, and deploy applications
Strong technical leadership and decision-making abilities
Ability to balance technical and business needs effectively
Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
Demonstrating true software craftsmanship mindset
Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills
Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering
Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous
Experience in large-scale frontend system architecture and MicroFrontends governance
Understanding of cloud architectures and DevOps practices
Exceptional collaboration and team-building skills

Desirable

Good experience in Java, Spring
Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Familiar with UX concepts such as Information Architecture

What`s in it for you?

Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
Care: Medical subscription to Regina Maria, meal tickets of 16 ron net/day worked

About Us

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

In Romania, we welcome top-tier tech talent — whether from our Bucharest office or fully remotely. Tap into deep industry knowledge, grow your career, and make an impact in an empowering environment.

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