ZEN Rooms
ZEN Rooms

Head of Engineering  

ZEN Rooms

 
  • Taguig, Philippines
    Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
    Taguig
    Metro Manila
    Philippines
    Philippines
  • Full timeFULL_TIME

Expired 4 years ago

2020-03-21T16:00:00+00:00
Job closed.

Job Description

Come change travel in Asia!

ZEN, one of the fastest-growing travel start-ups in Southeast Asia is looking for a Head of Engineering.

We are backed by the #1 Korean travel group Yanolja (funded by Booking.com/Agoda) and a group of leading institutional technology investors including Rocket Internet (behind Lazada and Food Panda etc).

ZEN Rooms was founded with a mission to improve the defective budget travel sector in South East Asia (the world's fastest growing travel market).

ZEN now operates in 4 countries, is already a top 3 hotel franchise in Asia and #1 in the Philippines, working with thousands of franchisees to improve the value for money of hotel rooms and empower people to travel more and pay less!

How we work: ZEN partners with independent property owners and brings them under the franchise to maximize their potential in sales, tech and operational efficiencies. ZEN is building the Accor of South East Asia. In less than 4 years, ZEN has already achieved the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the region's budget hotel industry and is consistently quadrupling its revenue each year.

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ZEN Technology team is on the forefront of Hospitality technology, working closely with World leading travel-tech companies like Yanolja and eZee. You will be leading our tech center in Manila and Bangkok, working with best-in-class colleagues from all around the world in solving the problems of travel in Asia.

If scale and speed of execution is exciting to you, if you are passionate about your craft and if you are striving to build systems that matter to millions of people around the world, ZEN Rooms will be the right place for you! Growing at an incredible pace we’re looking for sharp, passionate engineers that help us make our web platforms the best in the world.

WHAT PROJECTS WILL YOU WORK ON:

Including, but not limited to:

  • Development of new native mobile apps
  • Strategic projects and deeper integration with Yanolja and eZee products, aiming to:
    • Improve distribution/sales capabilities
    • Improve control of in-properties operations and benefit from centralization and economies of scale
    • Improve booking and stay-in customer experience
    • Improve efficiency of hotel operations (IoT etc)
  • Improvement of user experience of main ZEN Rooms website
  • Improvement of back office architecture to adapt to company growth and scale
  • Work on features to leverage vertical integration Property-OTA and improve booking and stay-in experience of the travellers

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Guide and support your team through the development process
  • Design and own full life cycle delivery of cross functional projects and automated solutions
  • Be part of the decision making process, proactively deconstruct and analyze both technical and product requirements
  • Adopt, share and adapt conventions and best-practices
  • Coach and mentor our high-performing engineers to help them grow their skills, enhance their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done
  • Find balance and compromises between “yes” and “no”
  • Drive evolution of architecture and process
  • Actively track progress across multiple streams and create transparency and visibility
  • Ensure reliability: test, monitor and add resilience
  • Engage and align top talent through strong recruitment, mentoring, hands-on architectural leadership and career management
  • Supporting company growth by facilitating software scaling
  • Experience in handling department budget

Minimum Qualifications

  • At least 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, preferably in startup and web industry.
  • You have a refined understanding of software and programming fundamentals regardless of language/framework
  • You are self-motivated and strive to find pragmatic, incremental paths to success, even when faced with big challenges
  • Experience leading software Developers, DevOps and QA teams in an Agile environment across multiple and geographically distributed teams.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written

Technologies you will use and/or learn with our team:

  • Agile methodology
  • PHP (Phalcon, Symfony, Laravel, Lumen…)
  • GoLang, Python, NodeJs
  • Test Driven Development, BDD or DDD
  • SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DRY principles
  • OOP and Functional programming
  • DevOps
  • Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis
  • Queue systems, Kafka, RabbitMQ
  • Frontend: React, Sass, Javascript+Typescript
  • Responsive desktop & mobile web
  • Linux
  • Service-Oriented Architecture

Perks and Benefits

  • Free Lunch or SnacksFree Lunch or Snacks
  • Medical / Health InsuranceMedical / Health Insurance
  • Paid Sick LeavePaid Sick Leave
  • Employee DiscountsEmployee Discounts
  • Paid Vacation LeavePaid Vacation Leave
  • Maternity & Paternity LeaveMaternity & Paternity Leave

Jobs Summary

Job Level
Mid-Senior Level / Manager
Job Category
IT and Software
Educational Requirement
Bachelor's degree graduate
Recruiter response to application
Always
Office Address
Lower Ground, Bonifacio Technology Center, 31st Street, Taguig, Metro Manila
Industry
Information Technology / IT
Vacancy
1 opening
Website
https://zen-hs.com

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About ZEN Rooms

Join us to build the tech future of travel! ZEN is a travel technology group for Southeast Asian hoteliers. We provide state-of-the-art technology solutions to help our clients grow revenue, automate operations and deliver excellent guest experience. Our portfolio consists of top SaaS products and services: AI-driven Revenue Management system, Asia’s #1 property management systems, local B2B and B2C distribution platform, and growth-driven marketing solutions. The pandemic has accelerated the growth of internet economy, however innovation in hospitality tech has been lagging behind for years. We are on a mission to close that gap and revolutionize travel and hospitality in Asia. Currently, thousands of hoteliers and travelers trust us and our products. Together with over 200 colleagues from 10+ countries, we are on the path to be the #1 hospitality group in Southeast Asia by the end of the year! We are proudly backed by leading investors, including the #1 Korean travel group Yanolja (itself backed by Booking Holdings) as well as Rocket Internet (behind multi-billion dollar startups such as Lazada, FoodPanda). Are you ready to build the future of hospitality in Asia?

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