Tech Lead

About Caravelo

Caravelo is a travel-tech company with a global team and roots in Barcelona.

We specialize in creating SaaS solutions for subscriptions, chatbots and tools that help airlines create a better customer experience and increase revenue.

Our team has been growing exponentially over the past few years and at the moment we are a team of 50 people working mostly from our HQ in Barcelona. If you’d like to be part of our growth journey, read on.

The mission

To build great quality software that contributes to the continuous improvement and evolution of Caravelo SaaS product.

As a Tech Lead, you will:

• Analyze business requirements, design technical implementations, code elegant, solid and extendable solutions.
• Improve software performance and error handling, cooperate with other developers and Operations and/or Product specialists.
• Create & distribute tasks within the team.

Duties and responsibilities

• Extend existing product lines, support new business domains, and use cases with analysis and implementation.
• Good estimation of product delivery technical requirements and efforts.
• Analyze technical implementations and create UML diagrams (use case, sequence).
• Determine project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Good estimation of complexity and delivery time.
• Delegate tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaise with developers, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Mentor and train other developers.
• Actively participate in code reviews.
• Participate in team performance reviews along with the Director of Engineering.
• Cooperate with other tech leads and software architects in general platform architecture tasks.
• Ensure a good estimation of technical debt, detecting current debt but also when we are generating more of it.
• Actively propose improvements.
• Setup and perform UATs with clients.
• Create technical documentation both for implementation and training purposes.

Required skills and experience

• Proficient in object-oriented analysis and design
• Solid Java/JVM or equivalent programming skills
• At least 3+ years experience in a team lead role
• Knowledge of Airline IT (i.e. Amadeus, Navitaire, Sabre, SITA) is highly valued
• Experience with project management software and issue tracking
• Good written and verbal communication skills, English required!
• Resourceful and organized
• Ability to work independently

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• If you live in Spain, you will also get access to benefits paid from your gross salary with Cobee (Health insurance, Transport / Restaurant / Kindergarten check) and discounted gym membership (Andjoy).
• Flexible working hours & Intense Fridays!
• Possibility to work with a Hybrid setup
• A spacious office in the heart of Barcelona
• Plenty of space for personal and professional development
• The possibility to see the results of your work, and have a real impact on the business
• Inclusive and international work environment

At Caravelo we are always looking for people with the right mix of passion, authenticity, and attitude to join our team. We are also proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer.