Principal Engineer

Company Description

Omio’s vision is to enable people to travel seamlessly anywhere, anyway. We are bringing all global transport into a single distribution system and creating end-to-end magical consumer journeys. 1 billion users use Omio, doing over a billion searches a year. 

With Omio you can compare and book trains, buses, ferries and flights globally, offering transparent pricing and easy booking, Omio makes travel planning simple, flexible, and personal.

Omio is available in 45 countries, 32 languages, 33 currencies, and collaborating with over 2,300 providers to offer millions of unique journeys and bookable travel modes.

With 12,000 local transport operators and over 10 million unique routes searched each year, and 240 searchable countries, including our discovery product "Rome2Rio", which helps trip planners coordinate their travel anywhere in the world.

Our offices are based in Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London.  
We are a growing team of more than 430 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who share the same vision: to create a single tool to help send travellers almost anywhere in the world.

Job Description

Job Description

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design, implement and evangelise for cross-team projects that both have a company-wide business impact and at the same time, pushing our technical status-quo forward. We expect you to be mindful, approachable, experienced in a wide range of technologies and an expert in designing & building highly available distributed systems.

If this excites you instead of scaring you, you will fit nicely!

Our Technologies:

• Java, NodeJS Python, Go

• Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform

• Google Cloud Platform (Pub/Sub, GCS, BigQuery, BigTable, Dataflow, ...), AWS (RedShift, Kinesis, S3)

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Clickhouse

Check more details: https://omio.tech/radar

Qualifications

Qualifications
Who you are

• Passionate about technology but also interested in the business impact of projects you work on

• Able to gather requirements, create a delivery plan and handle alignment between different teams/departments to deliver your project, you will have end-to-end responsibility.

• Able to lead internal discussions about the direction of major areas of technology in Omio

• Able to mentor & inspire engineers across the organisation

• As a thoughtful leader and evangelist, you work out architecture, engineering best practices and solutions across the Tech department. We expect you to contribute to both internal and external tech-talks representing Omio

• You provide full and detailed analysis, insightful comments and recommendations for action. You contribute to the development of the tribe strategy across the organisation

Your skill set:

• 10+ years in Software Engineering position

• Deep knowledge in the JVM environment, large-scale distributed systems and cloud solutions

• Solid communication competences to transport vision, align teams and to advise the management team, good English language skills

• Experience in new product development and project management

• Demonstrated ability to interact and collaborate with all levels of internal and external customers

• Proactive problem solving - you resolve obstacles before they can become problems

• Method expert, ability to quickly interpret an extensive variety of technical information and find resolution and the method to an issue quickly.

Additional Information

Learn more about Omio Engineering and our Team:

• https://medium.com/omio-engineering

Here at Omio, we know that no two people are alike, and that’s a great thing. Diversity in culture, thought and background has been key to growing our product beyond borders to reach millions of users from all over the world. That’s why we believe in giving equal opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Hiring process and background checks
At Omio, we work in partnership with Giant Screening, once a job offer has been accepted, Giant will be engaged to carry out background screening. Giant will reach out to you via email and occasionally via telephone/text message so that they can gather all relevant information required. Consent will be requested prior to any information being passed to our services company.

What’s in it for you? #LifeAtOmio

• A competitive and attractive compensation package

• Opportunity to develop your skills on a new level

• A generous pension scheme 

• A diverse team of more than 45 nationality

• Develop maintainable solutions for complex problems with broad impact on the business as a whole

• Make decisions that will have a direct impact on the long-term success of Omio

Diversity makes us stronger 

We value diversity and welcome all applicants regardless of ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age or disability.