Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Our Mission Trainline is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide. Via our highly rated website and mobile app, people can seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from 270+ rail and coach carriers across 45 countries. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real time travel information on the go. Our aim is to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. Technology @ Trainline Over half of our staff are technologists who are making an impact on how people travel through the use of high-quality software. At Trainline we have a modern and scalable tech platform that is built for volume and feature growth. Our mission is to find the perfect journey for our customer, and to do it in a fast, intuitive, reliable, and economic way. In a highly dynamic industry and with the ever-changing needs of our users, we must be ready to act, test, and measure quickly, in a way that only extensive and focused use of technology can enable us to. We have the power to revolutionise our customers’ travel experience through technology innovation. Did you know that Trainline has: · 20+ engineering teams · 400+ software engineers · 40+ daily Production deployments · 600 services · 96m+ monthly visits Introducing the Win International team at Trainline 👋 Win International are a cross-functional team with the mission of helping travelers across Europe get the best travel experience, from finding the best possible journey and fares to giving our customers the peace of mind of a reliable post-sales support. At Trainline we believe in sustainable travel, hence our effort to promote train travel as the greenest travel choice. For that purpose, the Win International team are focused on building industry-first features, relying heavily on our the Data Science team to help us offer functionality that no other company has done before. We are constantly evolving our product to achieve the most friction-free experience for our users. We love data, so we continuously test our product changes and learn from our users. Trainline the main aggregation product within Europe, so the team work closely with the Train operating companies to keep integrating their innovations into our product. As an Engineering Team Lead at Trainline , you will... 🚄 - You will be leading a team of cross functional engineers (Apps, Web & Back-End engineers), this will mainly be a people manager role but we would love to have someone who doesn't mind getting their hands dirty with code from time to time! - Ensure yourself and others are continuously improving by proposing and implementing new processes, designs and engineering practices that make the team more effective - We're looking for someone that has experience within a Scrum environment, and is used to working in an agile way - Experience with OKRs and rolling them out across the team will be beneficial - Work with the Business Analyst and Product Owner within the team, to define ideas and requirements from multiple sources and ensure they get turned into well-defined tasks that are ready to be worked on by software developers - Balance competing priorities and maintain a prioritized backlog of work for the team - Act as a mentor/coach to more junior members of the team - Ensure that everyone in the team has a reasonable workload We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍 - Y ou've worked in cross functional teams before - Are a team leader with proven experience delivering complex projects successfully. - Have a passion for people management combined with experience from either mentoring, technical leadership or from a previous people management role. - A problem-solver who can apply their skills to technical issues. - A strong grasp of agile and understanding of the Scrum framework. - A pragmatic self-stater with a keen interest in technology Your qualifications - Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment - Minimum 1year of People management and team management experience - Strong understanding of functional programming paradigms Our Technology Stack: 📱 - We use a variety of technologies at Trainline, you and your team will work on: - iOS & Android development - .NET Core backend services - AWS But why should you join? You will be working in a high performing and collaborative multi-cultural team. We have over 42 nationalities across our 5 offices in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Milan who work closely together. We want our people to stretch their minds, abilities, and share their knowledge. Each year we hold The Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment. We've always paid special attention to flexible working as we value a strong work/life balance. The pandemic has taught us that a balance between remote working and being in a collaborative office environment leads to productive teams. Our Culture Coaches Over Heroes We prioritise the focus on being one team over elevating the heroics of an individual, for us the true heroes are those who are excellent at nurturing, coaching and generous in sharing their knowledge with others. Well-being Everything that we do takes into account the morale of every member of our team, their opportunities for growth and for participation in exciting challenges. Mentoring and Learning We have a mentoring community that is constantly growing, we provide people with mentors or buddies from various teams. Trust We hire awesome people capable of making smart decisions - empowerment is a great enabler of agility. It is within a supportive team that you will feel the strength to thrive and try new things knowing that everyone will be there for you along the way. We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world. Apply for this job