Explore a new world of possibilities

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

As an Engineering Team Lead, 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 optimise 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.

How you’ll add value

Plan and organize quarterly goals and the day-to-day activities of the team
Work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to refine requirements, divide work into clear milestones, identify blockers, 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, evangelising coding standards and best practices to ensure the platform's stability and scalability
Continuously challenge status quo to 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

You’ll be successful in this role if you

Have minimum 5 years of experience in senior Engineering roles, including leadership experience
Have strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills to effectively manage and motivate a team
Have demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners, define and execute OKRs using agile principles
Have excellent knowledge of C# and .NET
Have experience working with multiple stacks of programming languages and technologies or a strong willingness to learn and adapt to new technological challenges on constant basis
Have experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions, Jenkins / ArgoCD (or similar) and deploying containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
Are proficient in logging and monitoring system performance using Prometheus and Grafana (or similar)
Have experience building highly scalable, performant, and mission-critical services
Are fluent in English

What we offer

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

About us

HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled 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, house boats, castles, farm stays and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.

Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps & websites in 25 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, atraveo, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Kurzurlaub, Kurz Mal Weg, Tripping.com and Wimdu.

HomeToGo is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring and nurturing exceptional talent, representing various backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are authentically candid and open-minded, fostering a safe environment for diverse opinions. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We do not discriminate against race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political, ideological or religious views, disability or age.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce of equality and diversity at HomeToGo and to provide opportunities to everyone. We therefore welcome your application even if you aren't completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!

Lead Software Engineer (.NET)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Vilnius, Kaunas