Company Description
Alola envisions a world where travel planning is seamless, personalized, and hassle-free, powered by cutting-edge AI technology. Our goal is to empower travelers to create unforgettable experiences effortlessly on our end-to-end travel platform. We are based in Singapore and value innovation, creativity, and customer satisfaction.
Overview
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Technical Lead to join our dynamic and growing organization. The Technical Lead will oversee the technical direction of projects, lead the technical engineering team, drive best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technology with business goals. The ideal candidate will be a creative thinker to drive innovation and success in AI and chat conversational technologies.
Key Responsibilities
• Technical Leadership: Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of our AI-based travel platform, ensuring robust, scalable, and efficient systems.
• Team Management: Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Product Development: Work closely with product and design teams to align technical strategy with product roadmaps, delivering features on time and within scope.
• AI & Machine Learning Integration: Guide the integration of AI and machine learning models into core travel services, including recommendation engines, dynamic pricing, and personalized itineraries.
• System Architecture: Architect and maintain the technical infrastructure (cloud-based, microservices) to support high traffic and data-intense operations.
• Code Quality: Oversee code reviews, best practices, and processes to ensure high standards of code quality, performance, and maintainability.
• DevOps: Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and cloud deployments to ensure continuous integration and delivery.
• Scalability & Performance: Identify potential bottlenecks and implement improvements to ensure the system can handle a rapidly growing user base.
• Collaboration: Act as a liaison between engineering, data science, and business teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment of goals.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure the platform meets data privacy, security, and compliance standards, especially around sensitive user information and transactions.
Requirements
• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role, ideally in a start-up or fast-paced environment.
• Technical Expertise:
· Proficiency in full-stack development, with experience in one or more of the following: Typescript, Nestjs, reactjs, mysql, openAI, python
· Experience in building scalable, cloud-native applications (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
· Knowledge of AI/ML frameworks and tools, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
· Strong background in APIs, microservices, and distributed systems architecture.
· Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• AI Integration: Prior experience integrating machine learning models into production systems is a plus.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and grow a team, with strong mentorship and communication skills.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Bonus: Experience in the travel, hospitality, or e-commerce industry is a plus, and managing remote teams and resources are added plus
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration with quarterly discretionary bonus
- Be a part of a fun, diverse and forward-thinking team
- Hybrid work environment