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 deve