Frontend Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer – Front End & AI (Travel Things) - (Hybrid)
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We're seeking an experienced
Lead Engineer – Front End & AI
to join our
Travel Things Team
in our Barcelona or Milan (hybrid) to optimize the funnel experience, conversion & Revenue Optimization through the personalization.
If you're ready to soar, we're ready to take you there.
Why eDreams ODIGEO
We're the world's leading travel subscription platform.
We pioneered Prime, the first and world's leading travel subscription programme since launching in ****.
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 and Tasks
At eDreams ODIGEO, we are building a personalized and intelligent travel experience for more than 20 million customers every year.
We believe the future of travel lies in
hyper-personalization, real-time decisioning, and AI-driven product experiences
— and we're looking for an outstanding
Lead Engineer
to help us get there.
As a
Lead Engineer
in our
Travel Things
product area, you will guide a cross-functional team responsible for shaping and creating capabilities about how we sell and optimize products that make trips better — such as seats, bags, insurance, guarantees, car rental and private transport, and more.
You'll be at the heart of our strategy to:
Increase conversion in our booking funnel through smarter user journeys.
Grow revenue margin per booking by leveraging AI and machine learning to personalize the offer at every step.
Leverage on real time data for covering the customer specific needs tailoring the offer of our products portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing:
Lead a high-performing team of backend and frontend web engineers, fostering growth, ownership, and technical excellence.
Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and UX designers to create, validate and deliver high-impact product features.
Drive the adoption of machine learning models, AI systems, and personalization frameworks into customer-facing features.
Ensure engineering quality through technical design reviews, code reviews, and setting high standards for testing and delivery.
Measure, understand and improve the team performance constantly keeping our high-performance team standards high.
Mentor and coach engineers, helping them grow in both their technical and leadership paths.
Align closely with other engineering teams across the company to ensure a strong technical strategy and consistent delivery cadence.
What you need to succeed:
Good to have
Proven experience as a Lead Engineer with tech leadership, ideally in B2C or product-led organizations.
Previous knowledge or strong interest and/or hands?on experience applying machine learning or AI to product problems.
Experience integrating ML models into production systems or working closely with data scientists is a big plus.
Solid understanding of personalization strategies (e.g. recommendations, targeting, contextual relevance) and how they impact conversion or monetization.
Ability to break down complex systems and make pragmatic decisions that drive business impact.
Experience building distributed systems and REST APIs.
A product mindset: you care deeply about solving real user problems and measuring outcomes.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — you're comfortable driving conversations with Product, Design, Data Science and directly reporting to Directors.
Track record of driving initiatives that had measurable impact on funnel performance or revenue KPIs.
Preferred Qualifications
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.
AI-Enhanced Problem Solving: Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to debug code, streamline deve