Java Lead Engineer

Engineering Manager (Java) - eDO Transport (Hybrid)

As you contemplate your future, you might be asking yourself, what's the next step? Start your journey with us We’re seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Transport team in Porto (hybrid), to help customers reach their destination by finding the best travel deals, combining more than 700 airlines and 100,000 flights worldwide every day to offer millions of combinations in real time of different products, like flights, trains and hotels. If you’re ready to soar, we’re ready to take you there.

Why eDreams ODIGEO

We’re the world's leading travel subscription platform.

• We pioneered Prime, the first and world’s leading travel subscription programme since launching in 2017.
• Millions of Prime members every year across multiple markets.
• 5 brands: eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink, and the metasearch engine Liligo
• This entire Prime experience is powered by a proprietary, industry-leading AI platform that delivers a smarter, hyper-personalised service and comprehensive travel experience globally to its members.
• Diversity is our strength; our eDOers come from different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts.

What You Will Do

The Role's Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Working with a top-notch tech stack including Java 17, BigData (Kafka, BigTable, Redis, PostgreSQL), LLMs, Datamesh, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Sonarqube and Datadog.
• Collaborating with Product, Business, Architecture, Data Science to shape the technical strategy and evolution of the Payments domain, defining the technical strategy for your modules and ensuring their optimal performance.
• Helping your team translate functional specifications into high-performance logical technical design, code and split the work into smaller tasks that add quick value to customers.
• Promoting our standards of technical excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Leading a high performing cross functional agile team of 7-10 experienced software engineers and developers.
• Taking an active role in finding and hiring the best talent available, in collaboration with our recruiters, and onboarding new joiners into our culture of high performance, collaboration and growth.
• Managing performance, setting goals and prioritising work for your team, balancing the capacity of the team.
• Establishing a sense of identity, engagement and belonging in your team, and improving team dynamics – in collaboration with your dedicated agile coach.
• Acting as a mentor, helping others develop their skills and professional career.

What You Need To Succeed

• Ability to take fast and data driven decisions.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to live and transmit our values.
• Intense focus on what delivers customer value.
• High standards around quality and technical excellence in coding.
• Developing and growing self and others.
• Presenting with confidence to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Knowledge and experience with coding, OO design, system design, performance tuning, performance engineering, design patterns, data modelling.
• Java and code base knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience with distributed, concurrent and scalable systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-powered coding assistants.
• Experimentation Mindset: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and integrate emerging AI-driven solutions into software development workflows.
• AI-Enhanced Problem Solving: Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to debug code, streamline development processes, and enhance productivity.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Enthusiastic about continuously learning and quickly adapting to new AI features and capabilities.
• Collaboration with AI: Experience or interest in collaborating closely with AI tools as “pair programmers” to complement traditional software development practices.

What's in it for you?

• A rewarding compensation package – Prime Plus membership, competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible benefits, performance-based bonuses, birthday day off, discounts and partnerships, relocation support and premium equipment with role-based selection options and device ownership through our equipment lifecycle program.
• Continuous learning to fuel your growth and explore new horizons – free Coursera access, soft skills workshops, tech training, leadership development, and more. Plus, enjoy a great onboarding program.
• Growth opportunities to em