Lead Product Engineer

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Lead Product Engineer at Hyatt, offering technical leadership for digital product initiatives. Collaborating with teams to align solutions with Hyatt’s digital vision.

Responsibilities:

  • The Lead Product Engineer provides technical direction and leadership across multiple teams and initiatives
  • You’ll guide architectural decisions, influence engineering strategy, and ensure alignment between technology solutions and Hyatt’s digital vision
  • This role combines deep hands-on technical expertise with mentorship and strategic oversight
  • Lead Engineers help shape the roadmap, define technology standards, and foster an engineering culture centered on innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
  • Define and communicate technical vision, architecture, and standards for critical systems
  • Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cross-functional initiatives
  • Partner with engineering management to plan and prioritize team objectives
  • Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through coaching and feedback
  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that drive innovation and efficiency
  • Establish best practices for scalability, security, and DevOps automation
  • Represent Product Engineering in strategic planning and technical governance forums
  • Serves as a key technical authority within the organization, influencing product strategy and engineering excellence across teams.

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, architecture, and technical operations
  • 4+ years of experience leading small project teams (2–5 engineers) in an Agile environment
  • Proven ability to design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure applications
  • Hands-on experience with front-end and back-end development using modern frameworks
  • Services decomposition and Framework Upgrade experience
  • Strong proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and associated frameworks including Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, MyBatis, AngularJS, and Node.js
  • Solid experience with SQL and relational database design
  • Solid experience around Data Caching Techniques using Redis
  • Expertise in RESTful services, API development, and integrations using APIGEE, nginx, and JSON
  • Working knowledge of Apache Kafka for building event-driven architectures and integrating microservices
  • Experience with automated testing using frameworks such as Karma, Selenium, Protractor, WebDriver, and Jasmine
  • Skilled in continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins, Git, Bash scripts, Maven, Gradle, Webpack, and WildFly application/web servers
  • Proficient in using Jira and Confluence for documentation, collaboration, and project tracking
  • Strong understanding of requirements analysis, system design, and DevOps best practices
  • Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Skilled in Planning how applications connect with databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and external APIs
  • Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, relational databases (RDBMS) concepts and dimensional modeling
  • Experience with designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly those that apply to Operation Data source and Data Migration.

Benefits:

  • Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription, and a discount at the on-site fitness center
  • A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption
  • Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match

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