💼 Lead Software Engineer

About NFQ and HomeToGo

NFQ is a core technology partner for HomeToGo, a dedicated team of software engineers and data science professionals driving innovation to power a marketplace with the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals. We are expanding HomeToGo’s technology team in Lithuania and are looking for the brightest talents to join this growing company.

HomeToGo is the marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners, including Booking.com, Vrbo, and TripAdvisor. From vacation homes, cabins, beach houses, apartments, condos, houseboats, castles, farm stays, and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates, and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.

Your Role as Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll be a part of a passionate and innovative Search and Ranking team, focused on building high-performance services that are the backbone of HomeToGo’s Search. Our goal is to Make Customers Successful by delivering the most relevant list of accommodation offers for every vacation rental search. To achieve that, we especially rely on strong collaboration with our Data Science team, where we co-own Machine Learning components that optimize the ranking of our search results. Our developers are involved in the full software life-cycle and have exposure to a broad set of technologies. You will lead our Search Engineering Team, contribute to setting and executing team goals, plan the team’s work, as well as coach and mentor team members. You will also execute engineering initiatives hands-on with high autonomy and ensure a healthy ratio between technical excellence and business impact. The expected distribution of team leading vs. individual contribution activities is 50/50.

Responsibilities

• Plan and organize quarterly goals and the day-to-day activities of the team, facilitate career growth discussions, and conduct performance reviews.
• Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to refine requirements, divide work into clear milestones, identify blockers, and ensure effective cross-team collaboration.
• Facilitate technical conversations within and outside the team.
• Collaborate with the team to develop features and ensure their success through our in-house A/B testing platform.
• Choose adequate technical and business metrics to monitor features and manage risks.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, evangelizing coding standards and best practices to ensure the platform's stability and scalability.
• Continuously challenge the status quo and improve our services.
• Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• Coach/mentor team members, foster a collaborative and high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in senior engineering roles, including leadership experience.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills to effectively manage and motivate a team.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners, as well as define and execute OKRs using agile principles.
• Excellent knowledge of C# and .NET.
• Experience with multiple programming languages and technologies, or a strong willingness to continuously learn and adapt to new technological challenges.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD (or similar) and deploying containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in logging and monitoring system performance using Prometheus and Grafana (or similar).
• Background in building highly scalable, performant, and mission-critical services.
• Fluency in English.

Benefits

• Career of growth opportunities and promotions, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international and distinguished team.
• Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy, and quarterly transparency about company goals. A focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities.
• Compensation of attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin.

Salary range: €4500 - €7500 (gross / month)

If you have any questions, please contact Ugnė Rumšaitė at ugne.rumsaite@nfq.com or via LinkedIn.

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