Director of Engineering
We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead our dynamic and growing R&D (Product Engineering) team of 90 talented professionals, spread across multiple locations in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Belgrade, and Oppdal, Norway.
As Director of Engineering, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of software development at Visit Group. Your leadership will drive innovation, efficiency, and quality by optimizing our delivery pipeline and streamlining development processes across diverse tech stacks. This is a strategic role that blends technical expertise, leadership, mentoring, and process improvement to ensure best practices in continuous delivery.
What you'll do:
- Accelerate time-to-market by optimizing processes, removing bottlenecks, and increasing the value of our product offerings.
- Enhance team productivity by streamlining workflows and ensuring the right tools and systems are in place.
- Boost product quality by improving QA automation tools and frameworks throughout the development and delivery pipeline.
- Drive efficiency by improving resource utilization and encouraging continuous improvement through common systems and shared knowledge across teams.
In this senior leadership position, you will report directly to the Group CTO and oversee a large team of Technical Leads and Engineers. Initially, the role will be hands-on as you help grow capabilities and implement new tools, frameworks, and approaches, while also mentoring the organization on best engineering practices.
What we're looking for:
- Strong leadership skills with experience leading software engineers in scaled agile teams.
- A deep understanding of continuous delivery practices.
- A track record of success in optimizing development processes and driving innovation.
- Experience working closely with platform (DevOps) teams and leading efforts to re-platform and re-engineer product portfolios for cloud environments (Azure PaaS).
If you’re passionate about driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and leading a talented engineering team, we’d love to hear from you!
About Visit Group
Visit Group is a leading European software provider specializing in technology solutions for the tourism industry. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, the company has grown to become a leader in the travel technology sector. We offer a comprehensive digital ecosystem that includes booking systems, ticketing and e-commerce platforms, and travel switches for various segments of the tourism industry. Our product portfolio includes Citybreak, BookVisit, iTicket, visBook, and WebX.
With over 20 years of experience, we serve more than 3,000 customers across 25 countries, including tourism organizations, accommodations, tours, and activity vendors worldwide. Our solutions enable inbound tourism businesses, such as ski resorts, tour operators, and destination marketing companies, to sell, combine, and distribute tourism products sourced from hundreds of external inventory platforms.
- Business unit
- Visit Group
- Role
- Director of Engineering
- Locations
- Gothenburg, Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Workplace & Culture
We set ambitious goals for the work we do and we always have our core values in mind: Reliable, Helpful and Constantly Improving.
About Visit Group
Visit Group is the leading European software provider of e-commerce solutions for the tourism industry. We today provide digital solutions to more than 300 tourism organizations and well over a 1000 accommodations, tours and activity vendors worldwide. Our product portfolio consists oftravel technology brands like Citybreak, BookVisit, iTicket and Web Apps. Our services range from booking systems and e-commerce to travel switches. All services are seamlessly connected with each other, enabling clients to benefit from the array of possibilities found in the digital ecosystem provided by Visit Group.
This ecosystem enables inbound tourism companies, such as Ski Resorts, Tour Operators and Destination Marketing Companies to sell, combine and distribute tourism products sourced from +100 external inventory platforms. Every day we work close to partners like Google, Expedia, Hotels.com, Booking.com, Facebook, TripAdvisor and many more.
Director of Engineering
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