Job Description

At Flight Centre Travel Group our purpose is to ‘open up the world for those who want to see’. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something really amazing – travel! 
We are looking for a passionate, motivated and skilled Technical Team Lead in our Websites team to help build and maintain the websites for our global travel brands. This is a hands-on lead role to build high quality, reliable, scalable solutions with a focus on value to the customer. You will have strong technical leadership and development experience, continuously learning and developing yourself and others in their craft. You will have the opportunity to influence the engineering culture, drive technical excellence, and building world-class software products.
If you’d like an opportunity to be part of our dynamic fast-paced product management & engineering team with a customer-centric focus on what we do, please apply. We deliver quality, innovative digital solutions to delight our customers and achieve our strategic priorities.
 
Day to day:
 
Drive for technical excellence, grow and enable teams to achieve their missions and continuously learn and develop yourself and others.
Design and build efficient, testable and maintainable solutions with the right balance between solving the problem at hand and not over-engineering your solution
Work across the entire stack for our front-end web applications using modern JavaScript libraries such as React, and backend microservices/APIs, serverless architecture using Node.js.
Be an expert in your domain, live and breathe the product
Collaborate in our cross-functional Product Management and Engineering teams to plan and deliver high quality solutions in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Take initiative and always look for ways in improving the quality of our solutions, code bases, technical debt, standards, processes and best practices.
Foster a high performance team-oriented culture.
 
Required skills and experience:
 
7 years professional experience in software development, ideally as a full-stack software engineer, delivering reliable, high quality and performant solutions.
Experienced with modern JavaScript coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques. You are proficient in: TypeScript, React and Node.js.
Proven track record in driving software engineering principles, improving code quality, standards, best practices, software design and architecture patterns.
Passionate about people and teamwork with experience in coaching, mentoring and supporting others to continuously improve and achieve their missions.
You love driving technical outcomes.
Passionate about software engineering best practices and know what it means to ship high-quality code that is maintainable and extendable.
Highly collaborative team-player who thrives in a team environment without being adversarial and can also work independently.
You have a growth mindset, embracing challenges to continuously improve and innovate.
Experienced with DevOps tooling & practices valuing a DevOps culture.
 
You’ll earn brownie points with:
 
Experience with CMS platforms such as Drupal or WordPress
Experience in SSR methodologies and frameworks such as Next.js
Experience building decoupled websites using techniques including routing, client-side templating, & consuming JSON-based RESTful APIs.
Experience with AWS services such as CloudFront, Lambda, and API Gateway.
Experience with DevOps tooling & practices valuing a DevOps culture
Experience with observability tools, such as logging (Splunk, Kibana) and monitoring (New Relic)
 
Let’s skip to the good part:
 
Flexible work environment (Hybrid), work from home or our Global Head Office in Southbank, Brisbane
Travel discounts and deals bookable through our internal team of travel agents
Discounted financial services
Ongoing training and professional development
Chance to attend Global conferences (Bali 2023)
Paid Parental Leave  
Corporate Health Discounts – access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA.   
We proudly support and advocate responsible travel, positive diversity practices, empowered giving, and conservation of natural resources and sustainability – Yep, our hearts are big, mushy and green.  

Who we are:  

Proud to be part of the Flight Centre family – We do things a little differently around here. We do things the FCTG Way.  Our mission is to dominate the SME market, making the end-to-end travel experience faster, simpler and easier for our customers and to demonstrate ongoing value to decision makers, travellers and bookers.  

We have a unique culture and an irreverent DNA based on a proven mix of ideas, values, and ways of working that have helped shape our business over the past 40+ years.    

Across our brand, we take our business seriously but not ourselves. We take leaps of faith, have trust in our teams and work collaboratively and take ownership of our business to achieve our goals.    

Our spirit of egalitarianism, irreverence and ownership defines the way we behave.  These are the three shared values that we place above all others. They help us make informed decisions and solidify our company culture. That’s the FCTG Way