Android Lead Engineer

Android Lead Engineer - (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 Travel Things Team in Barcelona or Milan, to create a one-stop-shop for our customers, where they can find the best travel options for their needs and experience amazing post-booking service in our best-rated mobile app. In the Travel Things area, our teams are working on our future ancillaries retail platform that will take the customer experience to the next level across new and innovative touchpoints. If you're ready to soar, we're ready to take you there.

Why eDreams ODIGEO

Join 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 that’s why our eDOers are coming from different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts

Prime members are subscribed to global travel, gaining access to a comprehensive multi-product offering for all their travel needs—including hotels, rail, flights, dynamic packages and car rental, among others— compounded by industry-leading flexibility features and exclusive, member-only benefits.

What you will do:

The Role's Key Responsibilities

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, you will be in charge of:

• Working with top-notch native tech stack. iOS : Swift, VIPER, Clean Architecture, XCTests, Unit tests, Snapshot Tests and UITests, Cocoapods, Fastlane, Jenkins and CircleCI. Android : Kotlin, Retrofit, Apollo for GraphQL, MVP and MVVM, SOLID, Clean Architecture, DI with Dagger, Unit Tests, Roboletric, UI Tests Espresso by Robot Pattern and Gherkins, Whitelabel with 4 Flavours.

• Collaborating with Product, Business, Architecture, Data Science to shape the technical strategy and evolution of the Prime domaib, define the technical strategy for your modules and ensure their optimal performance

• Helping your team translate functional specifications into high-performance logical technical design and 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 onboard 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

• Establish a sense of identity, engagement and belonging in your team, and improve team dynamics - in collaboration with your dedicated agile coach

• Act as a mentor, helping others develop their skills and professional career

What you need to succeed:

Must have

• Knowledge and experience with coding, OO design, system design, performance tuning, performance engineering, design patterns, data modelling

• Mobile and code base knowledge

• Knowledge and experience with distributed, concurrent and scalable systems

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Good to have

Preferred Qualifications

• 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?

The best talent deserves the best benefits

At eDO, we want you to be a part of our success story and great culture.

Here's what we offer:

• 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 when it reaches its refresh cycle.

• Continuous learning to fuel your growth and explore new horizons! Learn and grow with free Coursera access, soft skills workshops, tech training, leadership development, and more. Plus, enjoy a great onboarding program.

• Grow opportunities to empower your career and unleash your potential! Personalised career paths and the eVOLVE Program will help you discover, grow, and thrive. Internal mobility opportunities let you pursue horizontal career changes and promotions.

• Your Well-being is our priority. Embrace Freedom and Flexibility! At eDO, we value flexibility, employee care, and transparency. We offer a hybrid home-office model focused on outcome. You'll be able to find the right work-personal life balance that suits you best.

• Work hard, party hard! We believe in having fun and connecting with colleagues! Join eDO for after-work events, padel tournaments, parties, and more. Create communities based on your passions, like sports and music. Come to work as you are, with no dress code, and enjoy free fruit, coffee, and tea at our offices.

• Enjoy a dynamic and healthy environment! Be innovative, take risks, and share your ideas. Our diverse and open-minded teams support high performance, learning, and growth. You'll work in an Agile mindset environment with recognition at our core.

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Our people are the key to our success. Each one of them is unique in their own way and the respect for their uniqueness is and will always be a passion and motivation. Don’t meet every requirement? If you’re excited about this role but do not feel your experience aligns perfectly with all the requirements we strongly encourage you to apply nevertheless