Engineering Manager, Travel

Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda
Ascenda provides the rewards infrastructure for leading financial services brands across the world.Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers and fintechs who utilise our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint!We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services!

About Ascenda Travel

Ascenda Travel was born in 2015 as Kaligo.com when we first started powering highly rewarding loyalty points earn for customers on their hotel stays; We now host 700,000+ hotels, 100,000+ flights powering the stays & redemptions for millions of customers across our plethora of B2B team-ups globally.

Our mission today is to deliver the best in class customer experience & the most varied selection of cars, hotels & flight options for our customers.

About the Role and the Team

You’ll help our Travel team to build and ship our SaaS based white-label platform to our fintech, banking and airline partners! Our Travel platform (termed TravelEdge) enables our partners to roll out a fully customisable, self-serve travel platform (hotels, flights, cars), allowing their customers to earn or use their loyalty points on travel bookings.

The Travel Platform team deals not only with maintaining our configurable SaaS web platform, but also work with our high scale supplier inventory platform aggregating content from multiple suppliers. The Travel Platform team builds mainly in Ruby and Elixir in the backend, and, TypeScript (Angular & React) for our frontends.

Our engineering managers are responsible for creating the vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each manager brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Ascenda.

As a Engineering Manager you will:

• Design, setup & customise new tenants on the Travel Platform to the requirements set by our customers
• Play a key role in designing and building great monitoring and observability in our products
• Work with our current Travel Tech Leads to own & coordinate major delivery initiatives 
• Work closely with designers, product owners, and engineers from multiple teams to develop and design solid user experiences.
• Contribute to the growth of junior developers, and of Ascenda’s engineering culture
• Have the opportunity to solve problems across multiple areas, such as performance, internationalization, and multi-tenancy

What we're looking for:

• Good technical background in building trafficked large scale web applications on a modern frontend and backend stack
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Experience leading and working with other Tech Leads and mentoring team members across multiple levels
• Deep experience in backend programming languages such as Ruby, Golang, or any other relevant languages. 3+ years experience in building frontends with frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc. Prior experience with our stack (Ruby, Elixir, Angular) would be a bonus
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the organization
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Prior experience in the travel technology industry is a bonus
• Prior experience building configurable UX, or developing BFF (backend-for-frontend) stacks at scale is a bonus.