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. You can read more about our story here.

LOCATION🌍

This role is based in Portugal. We have an office hub in Porto available for those who prefer a hybrid model where you can spend time with colleagues in-person. You will need to be able to commute to our office hub as required from time to time.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH 👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼

Reporting to our Head of Growth Engineering, the Engineering Team Lead leads a dedicated squad of software engineers, and 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 👩‍💻

People Management Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Agile Practices: You own the Agile ceremonies that ensure your team operates at peak efficiency and fosters a collaborative environment.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Collaboration with Product and UX Teams: You work closely with these teams to create deliverable requirements that meet expected results.
• 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.
• Application Performance Monitoring: You maintain and extend APM dashboards to monitor the health of your services during and after deployments.
• 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.
• Experiment Oversight: You ensure that your team's experiments are technically sound and aligned with product team objectives.

• 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.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 👀

• 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 practising 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

WHAT WE OFFER 💯

• 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

OUR BEHAVIOURS 🏆

• Grow others - We fundamentally believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone, whether it's helping them develop hard or soft skills. We want learning and growing to be part of our DNA to help makes us a better team, together.
• Master it - We are obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills. We rarely take things at face value; we investigate, interrogate, and always look for ‘the why,’ and wherever possible, we use data to find the best solution.
• Collaborate - We are in it together, for the tough stuff and the celebrations too. To achieve the best results, we need expertise from all areas of the organisation, and we wholeheartedly welcome diverse thinking.
• Adapt - We work fluidly, adapting to new information and the evolving environment while staying committed to our goals. Innovation and experimentation fuel our projects and we’re never afraid to pivot.
• Deliver - Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity. We collaborate to deliver work at speed without dropping any of our other behaviours.

We believe in talented and diverse teams that reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences. We lay out the above requirements to guide applicants to the experiences that we believe will allow you to be successful in the role. If you don’t meet them all, please consider applying if you think you can still perform the role as described.