Job description

🚀 We are currently seeking to develop our workforce team to meet our three ambitions over the next few years: to strengthen our leadership on foreign markets and in Europe itself, to set ourselves apart from the competition, and to provide a new offering dedicated to European resellers.

📢 We are currently seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principal Engineer to join our talented Tech team. If you are passionate about technology, possess strong leadership skills, and thrive in a collaborative and agile environment, we want to hear from you.

💡 As a Principal Engineer at Rail Europe, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence and will have an impact on our product and engineering strategy.

💪 Your responsibilities will include:

🚀 Driving user acquisition, SEO, Payments, Protection plans, and CMS initiatives.

🐱‍👤 Being the technical lead within the team’s domain and ensuring high-quality engineering practices.

🤝 Collaborating across teams to drive cross-team product and engineering initiatives.

📈 Partnering with the Engineering Manager & Product team to help create roadmaps and scope high-level initiatives.

✨ Raising the bar on technical health and performance of systems & components owned by the team.

🙌 Working cross-functionally to optimize strategies, execution, and impact.

Who we’re looking for

A full-stack engineer with expertise in Java (Spring framework) + Svelte
Experience with agile development in a B2C or SaaS environment.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives involving multiple engineers.
Time zone that's within +/- 1 hour from CET

Bonus points for

An understanding of SEO concepts or experience working with headless Content Management Systems
Hands-on experience with Playwright for frontend testing
An understanding of accessibility best practices & experience working on internationalised, multi-language products. 🌍
Exposure to payment-related projects. 💳
Exposure to developing for either iOS or Android, either natively, or via approaches like React Native, Capacitor.js, etc 📱

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