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 Snacks
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave
- Employee Discounts
- Paid Vacation Leave
- Maternity & 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