Lead Software Engineer, Rocket Travel by Agoda

Lead Software Engineer

Duties: Work closely with engineering management team as a product owner to drive the team’s technical direction to support our business outcomes. Guide one or more engineering teams to solve complex problems with elegant solutions that are maintainable, easy to understand and easy to onboard new engineers. Mentor engineers of varying experience and skills to help develop their technical skills. Deliver integrated solutions working with engineering, product and other technology leaders, including customer loyalty teams and partnerships. Research and propose new technologies to set technical direction for parts of the organization. Scope large projects and break work into manageable, deliverable milestones. Act as the key technology engineer for Partner launches. Empathize with the partner experience while maintaining quality and sustainability within the development process. Continuously improve team processes, tooling and quality in partnership with engineering managers and directors.

Requirements: Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or related field of study, and 5 years of working experience in any job title/occupation/position developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala or Java. Experience specified must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: working with relational databases and SQL; leading the design, development, and support of new functional capabilities and the modernization of existing implementations; large-scale global projects serving world markets with distributed data centers and localization of data; and queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or MSMQ). The experience specified must also include 2 years of experience technically mentoring engineers at various levels. Telecommuting permitted.

Work Location: 641 W Lake St., Chicago, IL 60661

Hours: M-F, 40 hours/week

Salary range: $148,949 to $220,000 per year. Benefits include bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health and dental insurance, and other benefits based on company policy.