This is a position we are hiring for behalf of our client in the business travel industry.

Description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to head a cross-functional product team in Ho Chi Minh City, comprising frontend, backend, mobile, QA, and DevOps engineers. You will work in a product trio with a Product Manager and Product Designer, ensuring smooth delivery and meaningful discovery. Together, you will focus on building solutions that are not only technically sound but also deeply aligned with customer needs and business outcomes. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders in Germany and international teams, ensuring both business impact and technical excellence.

As a leader, you’ll coach your team in agile practices, modern software development, and the effective use of generative AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot). You’ll also participate hands-on in the full development lifecycle, making architectural decisions, reviewing code, and contributing to cross-team alignment on shared components and cloud-native solutions. You are expected to foster a customer-centric mindset within the team, ensuring that engineering decisions contribute to a better user experience and tangible value.

Challenge

• Lead, grow, and mentor a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality products in an agile setup.
• Be part of the product trio (Engineering Team Lead, Product Manager and Product Designer) to shape features and roadmaps with strong technical input
• Work closely with stakeholders in Germany and other global teams, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and high-performance within your team.
• Guide the team in data–driven, modern web development practices and DevOps principles
• Coach the team on leveraging modern development tools and AI-assisted workflows.
• Align with other team leads and product teams to develop and maintain shared components.
• Promote engineering best practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability.
• Contribute to technical architecture and strategic decisions, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with other business units for alignment and efficient resource utilization. 

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH...

• 10+ YOE in Software Development experience with 3+ YOE lead
• Proven experience as a team lead or engineering manager including people leadership (>3y), ideally in an agile product development environment. 
• A true team player with a hands-on mentality and passion for mentoring and growing engineers. 
• Strong technical background with deep knowledge in modern web development, especially Next.js and/or Flutter and Java. 
• Broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and DevOps principles (T-shaped skill profile). 
• Solid knowledge of AWS cloud services and experience working in cloud-native environments. 
• Strong understanding of business-driven development and a pragmatic mindset for balancing speed and quality. 
• Advanced English communication skills, both written and verbal. 
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures, and managing stakeholder relationships internationally. 

PERSPECTIVE

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.

Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey.

You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

LOCATION, MOBILITY, INCENTIVE

The attractive remuneration is in line with the market and, in addition to a fixed monthly salary, all necessary work equipment and mobility, will also include an annual or multi-year bonus