Lead Product Engineer (Remote opportunity)

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is seeking a Lead Product Engineer to join their digital sales & events team. In this role, you will provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence engineering strategy while ensuring alignment with Hyatt’s digital vision.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM field