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 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 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 eagernes