EF Tours helps students gain new perspectives and build skills for the future through experiential learning. As an accredited institution, we partner with educators across the world to create global education programs that blend classroom, digital, and experiential learning for students.   

The Tours Digital Solutions team within EF Tours is a group of engineering and creative professionals empowering EF to send groups of students and educators on guided educational tours across the world. We power every step of our customer’s journey – from showcasing our tour offerings to creating personalized itineraries and collecting their feedback after the tour.   

About the role 

You will work across all of EF’s Tours products, helping provide educational travel opportunities worldwide for students and adults alike. The role is embedded in the Travel domain, which encompasses tour activities such as flight management. The Travel Operation engineering team supports internal stakeholders responsible for flight booking, order management, flight allocation, itinerary management and ticketing for the tours we produce.

What you’ll do 

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders, leading and guiding the team to design and deliver innovative, high-value software solutions for complex business problems, aligning with the broader organization’s goals. Take a leadership role in project delivery, coordinating team efforts for successful execution.
• Lead the charge in modernizing our legacy systems into a service-oriented architecture, driving the technical vision and building complex, reusable systems that establish best practices. 
• Work in a diverse tech environment using C#, Typescript, React, SQL, MongoDB, message brokers, and AWS services, and contribute to project delivery through a large team and complex stakeholder landscape.   
• Serve as a mentor within our team of passionate engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and quality, encouraging mutual mentorship, and tackling intricate system issues proactively.   
• Be a cornerstone in our team, leading with selflessness and dedication to effecting transformative changes that significantly impact our teams and product development.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of professional experience in programming languages like C#, Java, or TypeScript/JavaScript. 
• You deeply understand different programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented) and architectural styles (microservices, modular monoliths) and their trade-offs. 
• You are a lifelong learner, eagerly venturing beyond your technical comfort zone to explore new technologies, always with an eye for the most pragmatic solution. 
• You are a strong team player with exceptional communication skills, are passionate about collaboration, and are adept at articulating complex concepts to a diverse, cross-functional audience. 
• You are empathetic and adept at understanding business contexts, effectively bridging the gap between technical and non-technical domains. 
• You are enthusiastic about modernizing an ancient legacy system into a scalable architecture, applying Domain-Driven Design principles to simplify and effectively manage a complex business domain.