Tech Lead

Ferryscanner is an online search and booking engine that helps people find affordable ferry tickets to exciting destinations all over the world. Since 2018, we have been working to simplify the ferry booking process offering ferry tickets for more than 300 destinations in 25 countries. Our company culture is based on five core values: Ownership, Trust & Respect, Constant Improvement, Customer Obsession and Being Bold. Our team is comprised by young people specialized in cutting-edge technologies and tourism, who never compromise and continuously seek for innovative solutions.  

As a fast-growing international travel tech company, we’re looking for a Tech Lead who will join our Content Integration Product team and who will combine hands-on coding with technical leadership to help our engineering team deliver reliable, scalable solutions that move millions of travelers across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example in designing and implementing clean, performant, and maintainable solutions.

• Shape the technical roadmap and contribute to architecture decisions that support long-term product growth.

• Support and mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to plan and deliver high-quality features, balancing product and technical priorities.

• Drive improvements in our CI/CD pipelines, testing strategy, and engineering standards.

• Work closely with other Tech Leads and DevOps to ensure consistency and reliability across systems.

• Promote best practices across teams, helping to improve engineering-wide standards, tooling, and processes.

• Foster a collaborative, feedback-driven engineering culture where learning and quality thrive.

• Prevent antipatterns such as hero development or siloed knowledge by promoting clear standards, automation, and shared ownership.

• Drive code quality by strengthening testing practices and ensuring efficient CI pipelines.

• Manage technical debt.

Required qualifications & key competencies

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with proven technical ownership of complex projects.

• Strong understanding of modern web technologies, ideally React, PHP, Java, or similar.

• Experience with CI/CD, testing, and DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).

• A passion for helping engineers grow and for building a culture of collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Solid communication skills and the ability to align tech direction with business goals.

• Deep understanding of modern web technologies and system design principles.

• Ability to guide and develop engineers while fostering a culture of quality and collaboration.

• Strong analytical thinking with a pragmatic approach to technical challenges.

• Proactive in identifying risks, driving improvements, and ensuring technical excellence.

We offer

• Attractive Remuneration Package

• Work in an international and dynamic atmosphere among young and smart people

• Huge learning experience in using best practices and cutting-edge technologies

• Private life and health insurance

• Work from anywhere! Do you prefer working from one of the Greek islands or any other place in the world? Feel free to do so. We are completely flexible and have team members who prefer coming to the office and others who work fully remote or anything in-between.