Lead Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Lighthouse, we're on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality's most powerful AI platform. We take the world's largest hotel data network and transform it into real-time intelligence that drives action. With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, we are scaling at lightspeed. Our 850+ teammates across 35 countries aren't just building software—they are leveraging cutting-edge AI to help hoteliers be the first to act. Tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries trust Lighthouse to execute their commercial strategy, including every one of the top 15 global chains and thousands of independent hotels that consistently outperform their markets.

🏢 About Lighthouse

Lighthouse is a hospitality technology company that provides AI-powered commercial strategy solutions for hotels worldwide. With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, we are scaling at lightspeed. Our 850+ teammates across 35 countries leverage cutting-edge AI to help hoteliers make smarter decisions faster. Tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries trust Lighthouse to execute their commercial strategy, including every one of the top 15 global chains and thousands of independent hotels that consistently outperform their markets.

🎯 The Role

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will lead frontend platform initiatives that help all frontend work move faster without compromising quality. This is a hands-on builder and owner role focused on accelerating Lighthouse's migration from Ember to React, strengthening the design system, and improving the tooling, education, and guardrails that help engineers and AI agents produce high-quality frontend code.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Help product teams migrate to React by educating engineers, building tooling and guardrails that improve speed and quality.
• Accelerate Lighthouse's React migration with AI tooling while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Improve the consistency, maintainability, and reliability of frontend code produced by frontend engineers, other product engineers, and AI agents.
• Set direction for important initiatives, turning broad goals into actionable plans and balancing well-reasoned decisions with openness to other perspectives.
• Shape new ways of working by improving the frontend harness and workflows for AI-assisted development.
• Establish the foundations for generative UI so agents can assemble high-quality views and dashboards from trusted design-system components.
• Strengthen the design system as a dependable foundation for product experiences and AI-generated interfaces.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Senior-level frontend engineering experience enables you to independently turn an ambitious goal into a clear plan, direction, and delivered outcome.
• Strong professional experience with React and TypeScript allows you to guide other engineers toward effective patterns and high-quality migration decisions.
• Expert fluency with at least one AI development tool is essential, including an understanding of how these tools work, where they fail, and how to create the context, workflows, and guardrails needed for good results.
• Your strong project-management habits help you organize your own work, communicate progress, answer questions, document decisions, and keep complex initiatives moving.
• Clear communication and trusted relationships with product teams help you drive adoption through education, support, and an understanding of product context.
• Pragmatic, leading, and product-minded, you defend frontend best practices while choosing battles by impact, set direction collaboratively, and stay focused on making the product better.
• Taking initiative and inviting feedback come naturally, while you remain open-minded when defending a well-reasoned technical approach.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Product engineering experience.
• Experience with design systems, particularly as foundations for reusable product experiences or AI-generated interfaces.
• Experience with large-scale framework migrations.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

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