Fullstack Engineering Lead

We are Smartpricing, and we support small and medium-sized accommodation providers with solutions to help them fight back against the huge hotel chains. We started in 2020 by providing these companies with a dynamic pricing manager which can update room prices 100 times per day, and increase revenue by 30%. We were named one of Italy’s top start-ups in 2023, and are the fastest growing B2B SaaS company in the accommodation space in both revenue and number of clients. Today we are working with over 3000 companies in over 17 countries, and steadily growing. Yet, this is only the start of our journey. 

As we head into the latter half of 2024, we are looking to launch a suite of new products and focus on internationalizing our reach further. We aim to work with 5000 SMB clients by the end of this year, and aim to keep our 100% growth rate up well into next year. This means we have a very exciting time ahead of us, and require to work with some of the best people the tech industry has. 

Our technology team is building a platform of solutions that will help accommodation providers optimise the way they run their business. We are investing a lot in R&D with the intention to double the amount of products we host on our platform by the end of the year, and as such are expanding our engineering team. 

To provide excellent leadership of this growing team, we are looking for a proven and experienced Fullstack Engineering Lead to join us on our exciting journey. You would help us upskill the team, working to set engineering standards, highlight inefficiencies and perform code reviews where relevant. You will also be working closely with product teams on all topics relating to product development. Lastly, you will be working to provide strong people leadership to your team of Full-stack developers to help them develop in their role and career. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Promoting high engineering standards: supporting your direct reports to challenge the choices and solution, perform code reviews, set standards, highlight inefficiencies, help them with other proposals and PoC 

• Leading an Engineering team from the front, through hands-on work on high-level architecture and analysis. 

• Strategic initiatives: Working with the Head of product & product managers on OKRs and discoveries roadmap

• People Management: supporting your team individuals through all stages of their lifecycle with Smartpricing from onboarding through to performance reviews and offboarding

• Hiring: Working with internal talent partners to build out the team and ensure we are scaling in accordance with technical requirements 

• Proven experience as a fullstack engineer with recent experience in frontend and backend technologies. 

• Proven experience as people leader in a start-up or scale-up environment

• Experience working with Node.js and frontend frameworks (React / Vue / Angular)

• Exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g Jenkins, Circle CI)

• Exposure to test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Jest)

• Knowledge of distributed architectures

• Experience with SQL and wide column databases

• Experience with streaming engines (Kafka, RabbitMQ,)

We are on the cusp of an extremely exciting and rewarding journey. This means we will be working hard to tackle complicated challenges as we build a business with significant potential for the future. We will compensate you with a competitive salary that conforms to the market and your experience. 

Smartpricing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We want sincerity, but always with respect for others and their ideas. We don’t discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, colour, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability. Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us.