Position: Head of Engineering (.Net)
Company: ITOMYCH STUDIO
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are travel technology company, that’s been powering enterprise automation, hotel distribution & connectivity solutions for the travel industry for 25 years. We also launched a brand-new company in 2021 to provide global fintech solutions for the hospitality industry.

We are looking for a seasoned leader, based at our HQ in Dubai, who is passionate about building secure, high traffic & extremely scalable travel & fintech platforms. As leader of the Engineering team, you will work on creating platforms that will be used by hotel chains around the world for distribution of rates, availability & inventory, bookings & payments, You will oversee the technical roadmaps for teams working on the systems responsible for connectivity with hotel CRS (Central Reservations Systems), PMS (Property Management Systems), Card Issuers, Acquirers/Payfacs  &  gateways. The platforms have to scale to process hundreds of thousands of hotels ARI/bookings data and billions of transactions. 

**What you'll do**

- Building a world class team by recruiting and retaining a diverse and exceptional engineering team.
- Directly oversee managers and senior managers, as well as principal engineers.
- Balance tactical and strategic technology investments.
- Contribute to the technical product strategy and roadmap. 
- Collaborate with leadership to define clear succession plans and grow the next line of leadership.

**Basic qualifications**

- 6+ years of experience as an engineering leader.
- 3+ years of experience managing an organization of ~50 engineers.
- 10+ years of overall technical experience, including deep knowledge of architecture and operations of highly available, high-load, large-scale backend services 
- Experience coaching and developing other managers and leads.
- Experience leading a distributed org
- Experience overseeing the creation and operation of large scale, low latency, highly available, mission-critical distributed systems reliably and in a sustainable fashion. 
- Experience creating the structures necessary to mentor and grow junior engineers in a diverse organization.
- Upper-intermediate English Level

**Tech stack of our project**

C#, .NET Core
ORM: Entity Framework, Dapper
Microservices architecture
SQL databases: PostgreSQL
NoSQL databases: ElasticSearch, Kibana
CI/CD: GitLab
Cloud: Azure-based deployment infrastructure
Azure: AKS, ACI, Azure ServiceBus, Azure Storage Account, Azure Key Vault
Container and orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker

**Preferred qualifications** 

- Experience leading teams in a remote-first environment. 
- Experience scaling up engineering teams in a startup environment.
- Prior experience working on extremely large data processing on NoSQL databases is a must.
- Experience with Kotlin or React Native
- Prior experience working with hotel & travel systems as well as fintech platforms will be extremely desirable
- Prior experience with user engagement and personalization systems that leverage machine learning models is a plus

**What we offer**

- Meaningful work in a purpose-driven organization.
- Twenty-five working days vacation. 
- A remote-first work environment.
- A diverse and inclusive environment where all contributions are welcome
- A start-up culture where new ideas can be iterated and implemented quickly 
- Competitive compensation, including equity, with significant up-side as our company becomes the leading global hospitality booking management platform