Staff Engineer Platform Services
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About FCM
FCM is more than a global travel management company with 24/7 support in 100 countries. Were a movement6500 changemakers travel experts and performance drivers redefining corporate travel. We dont just keep the worlds biggest companies movingwe make it smoother smarter and bolder. Certified as a great place to work and fuelled by an alternative mindset we embrace change challenge convention and do things differently. This is FCM - where different happens.
About the role
As a Staff Engineer youll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our Platform Services organisation. Operating as part of the Strategic Leadership Team youll provide deep technical leadership across our three streamaligned squadsCustomer Profile & Configuration Trip Services & Booking Management and AgentPort & Traveller Services.
This is an influencedriven role not a management position. Youll partner with Tech Leads as peers helping squads achieve autonomy while ensuring our platform remains coherent scalable and technically excellent.
You will:
- Drive architectural coherence collaborating with Tech Leads on crosssquad decisions and ensuring systems integrate seamlessly.
- Build technical capability across teams by mentoring facilitating best practices and enabling squads to solve architectural challenges independently.
- Lead complex crossdomain problem solving working sidebyside with Tech Leads and the Strategic Leadership Team to guide technical strategy and resolve multisquad challenges.
- Contribute to technology strategy influencing decisions on frameworks platforms and emerging technologies.
- Foster a strong engineering culture through documentation knowledge sharing workshops and partnership across squads.
Your success will be measured by the reduction of integration issues alignment of technology choices improved squad autonomy and the trust and impact you build across the organisation.
About you
You are an experienced engineer with a passion for technical leadership architectural thinking and building capability in others. You thrive in environments where influence collaboration and facilitation matter more than authority.
Youll bring:
Technical Excellence
- Deep experience across multiple technology domains.NET and Ruby (essential); Elixir and Java (nice to have).
- The ability to understand and shape systemlevel architecture.
- A strong track record of solving complex technical challenges.
- Curiosity for emerging technologies and industry trends.
Influence Without Authority
- You guide through expertise not hierarchy.
- Skilled at facilitating discussions building alignment and navigating ambiguity.
- Strong communication skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.
Collaboration & Partnership
- A genuine appreciation for diverse perspectives.
- A mindset focused on uplifting others sharing success and building trust.
- The judgement to step in when neededand step back when teams are ready.
Systems Thinking
- A holistic view of how systems connect and evolve.
- The ability to foresee secondorder impacts of technical decisions.
- Strong awareness of how technology choices enable business outcomes.
Whats in it for you
- Exclusive Travel Discounts: As part of Flight Centre Travel Group you gain access to exclusive industry rates and discounts through our in-house travel team.
- Career Development: With Flight Centre Travel Groups global presence spanning 30 brands in over 20 countries youll have clear career pathways and the resources you need to achieve your professional goals including training and support.
- Vibrant Culture & industry-renowned social events: Experience our fun industry-renowned culture with exciting social events such as monthly awards nights global conferences end-of-financial-year balls and more.
- Active Hour: Prioritise your well-being with an hour dedicated each week to focus on your fitness or personal wellness.
- Comprehensive Health Cash Plan: Get reimbursed for a variety of medical services including dental optical and chiropractic care with our bronze-level health cash plan.
- Health & Wellbeing Challenges: Stay engaged with monthly health and wellbeing challenges designed to keep you motivated and healthy.
- Financial Wellbeing Support: Access expert financial services including mortgage advice regulated financial guidance and money coaching to help you manage your finances.
- And Much More: Enjoy a range of additional benefits including company-matched charitable donations an excellent pension scheme share options an electric vehicle scheme and a variety of salary sacrifice benefits.
Our number one philosophy is Our people. Flight Centre Travel Groups promise is to provide an environment with equality of respect dignity and opportunity for all our employees. We value an inclusive and supportive workplace which reflects the diversity of our society.
We welcome accommodation requests to help make our hiring and onboarding experience as accessible as possible. Please advise us about accommodation needs at any point by contacting our Recruitment Team at .
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
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