Engineering Team Lead (Vue/Nuxt)

At Hostelworld (Permanent), in Porto, Portugal
Expires at: 2025-05-19
Remote policy: Full remote

ABOUT US

Hostelworld Group, the global hostel-focussed online booking platform, inspires adventurous minds to meet the world and come back with life-changing stories to tell. Our customers are not your average tourists; they crave cultural connection and unique experiences that we make possible by providing an unbeatable selection of hostels in unmissable locations – all in the palm of their hand. It is the social nature and community feel of hostels and their environment that enable travellers to embrace journeys of discovery, adventure, and meaning. We have more than 13 million reviews across 17,800 hostels in more than 179 countries, making the brand the leading online hub for social travel. The website operates in 19 different languages and our mobile app in 13 languages. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dublin, Hostelworld has a growing, high-calibre team of 230 people within Technology, Product, Global Markets, HR, Finance & Legal, and Marketing Teams across our Dublin, London, Porto, Shanghai, and Sydney offices. Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Dublin Euronext.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

Reporting to our Head of Growth Engineering, the Engineering Team Lead leads a dedicated squad of software engineers, with support from QA (Quality Assurance) engineers and UI/UX designers to deliver the team’s roadmap. This squad’s mission is to work on Hostelworld’s innovative website and deliver killer experiments and functionality directly to our customer base.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

1. People Management Responsibilities:
   1. Team Leadership: You lead a team of engineers and are responsible for their careers, helping them achieve their goals and progress through the Hostelworld engineering career paths.
   2. Team Morale and Engagement: You prioritise the morale and happiness of your team, engaging with them to analyse results from surveys like Have Your Say and Pulse and working to improve areas that matter to them.
   3. Agile Practices: You own the Agile ceremonies that ensure your team operates at peak efficiency and fosters a collaborative environment.
2. Technical Responsibilities:
   1. Collaboration with Product and UX Teams: You work closely with these teams to create deliverable requirements that meet expected results.
   2. Architectural Oversight: While anyone can make architectural decisions at Hostelworld, you are ultimately responsible for the quality of work and solutions, providing architectural vision and advice, and assisting your engineers in writing design documents.
   3. Application Performance Monitoring: You maintain and extend APM dashboards to monitor the health of your services during and after deployments.
   4. Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Your team is responsible for the entire SDLC, from Pull Requests to container deployment on GCP, ensuring high reliability and observability.
   5. Experiment Oversight: You ensure that your team's experiments are technically sound and aligned with product team objectives.
   6. Website: Once customers reach the Hostelworld website, they will use features your team developed and is responsible for. From Search to Checkout, you can delight customers throughout their booking experience.

Main requirements

• Experienced Vue JS developer
• Experienced at debugging issues with JavaScript frontend frameworks (Vue & Nuxt preferable)
• Passion for software development and staying up to date on the latest trends within the frontend JavaScript community
• Knowledge of and experience in practicing Clean Code, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, or similar.
• Worked on high-performance frontend web applications which support high-throughput results to customers
• Excellent written and spoken English. In Engineering, we like to document our proposals and decisions. You must be comfortable creating diagrams and documents to explain your ideas and solicit feedback from your peers
• Experience directly managing a team of engineers, ideally at more than one company

Nice to have

• Experience working with remote teams

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary & benefits
• Enhanced annual leave plus 3 Wellbeing Days per year
• Paid family leave (maternity, paternity, surrogacy & adoption)
• Agile working (plus a Working from Abroad Policy!)
• Support for your ongoing growth & development
• Inclusive people policies (sickness, menopause, compassionate and fertility leave)
• A chance to give back to your local community with 5 paid volunteering days