Director of Engineering
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Job Summary
Your mission
Join the Revolution in Hospitality Tech!
Director of Engineering (Platform)
Bookboost builds hospitality software that helps hotels own the guest journey end-to-end. Were looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our backend/platform org and raise the bar on delivery architecture and engineering culture.This is a hands-on leadership role. You will still get into technical decisions and design reviews but your main job is to make the team fast aligned and proud of what ships.
Tech Stack:PHPLaravel Postgres TSAWS (incl. RDS) Docker (ECS) ElasticsearchSnowflakeDagsterAPIs integrations event/data pipelinesAgentic workflows LLMs skills
What youll do
- Own execution and engineering outcomes for our backend and platform systems.
- Build a high-functioning team: hiring onboarding coaching performance and career growth.
- Set technical direction with strong pragmatic architecture.
- Ensure our public APIs (core to our Customer Data Platform) are reliable secure and easy to build on.
- Drive scalable integrations with third-party systems on top of Bookboosts CDP infrastructure.
- Establish strong engineering practices:
- design reviews and technical decision making
- observability on-call and incident response
- quality testing and release discipline
- sane consistent patterns across services
- Partner tightly with Product and Design to shape work set boundaries and deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Keep delivery predictable without turning the team into a process machine.
Your profile
What success looks like (first 90 days)
- You have iterated and own the engineering vision
- You understand the current architecture the biggest risks and what needs to be simplified.
- You have a clear plan for delivery cadence ownership boundaries and how decisions get made.
- People feel supported challenged and unblocked.
Experience were looking for
- 8 years in backend engineering with meaningful time leading engineering teams.
- Strong PHP skills and deep Laravel experience (PHP 8.3).
- Proven track record building and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and operations (AWS RDS ECS/Docker).
- Experience with data movement patterns (batch CDC streaming/batch transformations message brokers).
- Comfort in the messy middle: legacy constraints incremental migrations and pragmatic trade-offs.
- High ownership high standards and a bias toward shipping.
Why us
How we work
We run an adaptation of the Shape Up methodology.- 6-week cycles for meaningful end-to-end delivery.
- 1-week cooldown after each cycle for tech debt improvements and experiments.
- Engineers are empowered to make technical decisions in close partnership with product and design.
Our AI vision
We build with AI and we expect everyone in engineering to work with AI every day.The job is shifting from writing syntax to designing systems. We want engineers to bearchitects: people who define the right abstractions shape the right interfaces and use AI to move faster without lowering the bar on quality.
Location
Remote Europe or in one of our hubs (depending on the role setup).- what you built that you are most proud of
- what kind of team you do your best work with
- what you want to optimize for in your next role
About us
Bookboost is a Swedish hotel technology scale-up redefining how hotels connect with 2021 we have launched a powerful user-friendly multi-channel CRM platform and and expanded with a Customer Data Platform in 2023. Since then our platform has become a cornerstone for modern hospitality operations.
Operating in 32 countries with 22 million active users and holding a 4.9/5 rating on Hotel Tech Report weve established ourselves as a trusted partner in the hospitality industry. Our goal is not just to keep pace but to set the pace by leading the market in hospitality engagement technology.
Oh and one last thing
If youre reading this thinking I dont tick every single box dont worry. We care more about passion ambition and growth mindset than a perfect resume. If youre excited about this role and ready to make an impact apply anyway. Lets reshape hospitality together.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Bookboost is a Swedish hotel technology scale-up redefining how hotels connect with guests. In 2021, we have launched a powerful, user-friendly multi-channel CRM platform and and expanded with a Customer Data Platform in 2023. Since then, our platform has become a cornerstone for mode ... View more
