Backend Lead

**About Us**:
trivago, a German travel tech company, is building an accommodation search platform to help millions of travelers find their ideal stay for a great value. We save our users time and empower them to get more out of travel by comparing accommodation from leading booking sites. Travelers come to trivago because they know they can rely on our metasearch platform to provide the best deals and deliver search results they love. To accomplish this, we work with a team of international talents eager to develop, take ownership for driving progress, and make a real difference.

**The Role**:
As a Backend Software Engineering Lead, you'll guide a team of 8 Java and Kotlin engineers in the development and maintenance of our global accommodation marketplace. You will play a critical role in ensuring that the core of our business runs smoothly and efficiently, using state-of-the-art technologies in a cross-functional and collaborative environment. This is a high-impact role meant for someone with a background in computer science or other technical field and a proven track record in leading experienced engineering teams.

**How you'll make an impact**:

- Lead, guide, and mentor a team of 8 Java and Kotlin engineers
- Ensure that your teams deliver high quality, scalable, and reliable solutions
- Guide architectural decisions and drive the team in evaluating new technologies
- Maintain a technical roadmap for our projects
- Collaborate closely with the principal engineer of the unit, project owners, and data science leads to align your team's work with the company's vision and objectives
- Communicate with stakeholders to ensure that your team's vision aligns with other teams and the company's vision
- Help your engineers grow by providing coaching, feedback, and opportunities for professional development

**What we're looking for**:

- Solid experience leading and mentoring software engineering teams with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable, and reliable solutions
- A strategic business mindset capable of translating business goals into actionable steps
- Ability to balance between pragmatic and principled software solutions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- A deep understanding of architecture and design patterns
- Extensive experience in Java or Kotlin development

**What makes you stand out**:

- A PhD in computer science or a similar field
- Experience with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Project Reactor, Prometheus, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, Docker or GCP

**What you can expect from life at trivago**:
**Equal opportunity**: An
**all-inclusive workplace**, because we know representing the diversity of our customers in our talent force enables us to create a more meaningful product.

**International**
**workforce**: Collaborate with talents from
**80+ nations** bringing different perspectives, backgrounds, and expertise together to ensure a truly global focus.

**Relocation**:In-house
**relocation support**, reimbursement to cover flight and moving expenses, support with work permit and visa questions, and free German language classes.

**Integration**: Begin your journey with a
**structured and fun onboarding** approach designed to help you network with other new colleagues and learn about the company.

**Ownership**: We promote fast decision-making
** **and give you the opportunity to think and
** act like a business owner**.

**Growth**: Your development is our priority so you'll get
**constant challenges**, feedback on your work, and online & on-site trainings.

**Wellbeing**: A modern working environment, complimentary sports classes, on-site gym, and access to
**Likeminded**.

**Flexibility**: No fixed working hours or amount of vacation days. Instead,
**we trust the outcome of your work**.

**Hybrid**: A mix of in-person collaboration (3 days per week) in our Düsseldorf campus and mobile work.
**Up to 20 days per year** can be spent in the EU and select countries.

**_A note from our recruitment team:_**:
LI-Hybrid