WhereTo - Software Engineering Lead - Remote, Canada

Software Engineering Lead - Remote, Canada

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

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About The Opportunity

We are seeking an Engineering Team Lead with an active oriented mindset and a focus on building a quality team and product. The Engineering Team Lead will report to the Head of Engineering and will be responsible for managing the engineers on their team, driving accountability within their team, and will be responsible for the output of their team. They will assist in the planning and delivery of projects, communicate progress, milestones, and roadblocks to stakeholders and management, and will empower the engineers on those teams to make the largest impact possible for company goals while also reaching their professional development goals.

To be successful as an Engineering Team Lead, the candidate should have in depth knowledge of the tools we use as well as an interest in the industry trends, experience managing people, projects, or teams, and should have strong communication skills. The candidate should be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and should have strong emotional intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Engineering Management, Operations Team, and Product Team to
• develop and execute domain team objectives and strategies.
• Lead and organize technical planning for their team’s projects.
• Maintain team velocity, drive accountability, and ensure quality and consistent
• output for their team.
• Work with team project manager to organize and maintain regular meeting
• cadence with their team, including planning sessions, 1-1 meetings, and stand
• ups.
• Communicate progress, roadblocks, concerns, and successes to engineering
• management.
• Organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
• Advocate on behalf of team needs such as addressing technical debt and
• improving infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance …