Engineering Manager

About the Role

Rocket Travel is looking for an Engineering Manager with deep expertise with fullstack in frontend and backend technologies to join our rapidly growing global engineering team. We're a hybrid team headquartered out of Chicago's West Loop, with team members spread out across the globe from the domestic locales of Michigan to Florida, and Florianópolis, Brazil to Bangkok, Thailand.

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day. 
• Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and are encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual travel stipend that lets you see the world and test drive our product(s).
• Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
• Total Compensation is based on experience
  • The starting point for base salary is $155,000. The target bonus for this position is up to 25%
• Can work remotely. Though we have great offices in Chicago’s West Loop and in NYC’s Empire State building, we welcome full-time remote applicants.
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates. 
• Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business. Despite the world’s current situation, Booking Holdings has been rated the healthiest company in travel, and Rocket itself is already seeing travel demand surpass pre-pandemic levels.

• Have a large impact on the success of the frontend discipline as a whole.
• Identify and provide technical leadership to high-value projects and keep your team focused on these projects.
• Manage engineers, and serve as a technical mentor for them in their career progression, offering feedback, giving mentoring, and reviewing performance.
• Spend much less time writing code, but still engage in small technical deliverables such as bug fixes and small features, in order to unblock your engineers and increase overall velocity.
• Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success of your team and clearing these roadblocks.
• Identify resourcing needs for the team and be heavily involved in the recruiting and onboarding new engineers.

At Rocket Travel, we’re building a diverse team that values accountability, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we’d love to talk with you even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed here. We don’t expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as they’re willing to learn and grow with us.

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience.
• You have a minimum of 5 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
• You have a minimum of 5 years experience in
  • Working in an agile development team in the Software engineering discipline
  • Making data driven decisions
  • Working as a system owner with operational responsibility
  • Working across the technology stack: infrastructure, client side, back end, performance, data and others
  • Programming in Java, Javascript or Typescript
  • Systems architecture in complex, scalable and fault tolerant distributed systems
  • DevOps, Automation and CI/CD.
• You have a passion for quality.
• You have experience leading multiple distributed teams and successfully shipping products.
• You can communicate effectively and clearly.
• You have deployed applications to AWS or a similar cloud provider.
• You love to travel & have or will obtain a valid passport. Rocket loves sending their people to train and work with others in some of our global locations from time to time. Not a frequent request but just in case, we'd love to know you might have interest.

Rocket Travel partners with loyalty programs around the world to make travel even more rewarding. Our customers can earn and redeem miles, points, and gift cards, or save big with exclusive discounts, for booking travel accommodations around the world, from global favorite brands to boutique bed and breakfasts. We also help our partners curate vacation excursion planning and car rental services, with a completely branded experience from the first search to check-out from their stay.

We attract customers from every corner of the globe with a user experience that's built in-house from ideation to finished product: our team includes front- and back-end developers, customer service, data analysts, designers, marketers, accountants, partnership sales, and managers. We have offices in Chicago, NYC, Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Cebu, as well as colleagues working remotely across four continents. Our global partnerships range from world-class airlines to international banks to large-scale shopping platforms. 

We began in 2013 as a start-up, were acquired by Bookings Holdings two quick years later, and we've been growing rapidly ever since. Rocket Travel is dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to reach new heights in their career, and expand their knowledge working alongside talented, dedicated colleagues. We encourage all applicants with a touch of wanderlust to apply to our team, as we work toward helping our travelers reach the vacation of their dreams.

All of these efforts help ensure that we’re promoting a supportive workplace, where people are motivated to grow professionally and build rewarding travel experiences together. 

Note on general employment requirements

Candidates should be authorized to accept employment in the US from any employer, should be willing to start within three weeks of accepting an offer, and should be able to work the same daily working hours as our Chicago office.

A final word

If the idea of working within an environment that promotes accountability, curiosity, and community to build reward travel products sounds motivating to you, we would love to hear from you—even if you’re unable to meet 100% of the job requirements. We never expect people to have all of the answers, as long as they’re willing and able to learn and grow with us.

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