Engineering Lead - Post Booking Optimization

About the role

Flight Centre Travel Group is looking for an Engineering Lead to own and drive the technical solution behind Post Booking Optimization. The role designs and builds systems that continuously monitor hotel reservations and air itineraries to secure better rates and fares for large corporate travel programs. You will lead architecture, solution design, integrations and technical delivery across multiple teams, working across hotel and air, and shaping a platform that operates safely, autonomously and at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution design for Post Booking Optimization across hotel and air, and the teams involved
• Maintain the architectural blueprint and make trade-offs explicit
• Oversee design reviews, technical quality and delivery against design
• Act as technical counterpart for external engineering teams, agreeing interfaces and escalation paths
• Drive integrations with hotel and air content sources, mid-office, ticketing and invoicing, so adding or changing providers is contained work
• Own engineering estimation and sizing, and push back on vague requirements
• Design the system to scale, including manual steps
• Set up observability, alerting and service levels, with staged rollouts and kill-switches by market and client
• Evaluate where AI and automation can improve outcomes while keeping auditability and deterministic logic
• Champion an AI-assisted software development lifecycle and modernize the technology stack

Required profile

• 7+ years in software engineering, including significant time in solution design, architecture or technical lead capacity
• Proven ability to drive architecture across multiple teams and deliver through people you do not manage
• Deep backend engineering grounding, with distributed, event-driven systems in production
• Experience integrating third-party systems you do not control, and automating manual processes in production
• Knowledge of travel technology (GDS, NDC, hotel and air content) and of where AI adds value in auditable systems
• Able to explain technical trade-offs to commercial and operational stakeholders and to work with distributed or remote teams
• Degree in Technology, Engineering or a related field preferred

Required skills

• Cloud-native delivery (Azure preferred)
• Containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and test automation
• Backend engineering with distributed, event-driven systems

What we offer

• Anticipated annual salary of $110,000 - $145,000, depending on experience, location and requirements
• Paid time off, travel perks and discounts, and health and wellness programs
• Extended health, dental and vision coverage, group insurance and RRSP/RPP with matching
• Tuition reimbursement, employee share plan and global career opportunities