Description Position at EF Educational Tours EF Tours helps students gain new perspectives and build skills for the future through experiential learning. As an accredited institution, we partner with educators worldwide to create global education programs that blend classroom, digital, and experiential learning. The Tours Digital Solutions team within EF Tours is a group of engineering and creative professionals empowering EF to send groups of students and educators on guided educational tours worldwide. We power every step of our customer's journey - from showcasing our tour offerings to creating personalized itineraries and collecting their feedback after the tour. About the role: You will work across all of EF's Tours products, helping provide educational travel opportunities worldwide for students and adults alike. The role is embedded in the Travel domain, encompassing tour activities such as flight management. The Travel engineering team supports internal stakeholders responsible for flight booking, order management, flight allocation, itinerary management, and ticketing for the tours we produce. What you'll do:
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, leading and guiding the team to design and deliver innovative, high-value software solutions for complex business problems, aligning with the broader organization's goals. Take a leadership role in project delivery, coordinating team efforts for successful execution.
- Lead the charge in modernizing our legacy systems into a service-oriented architecture, driving the technical vision and building complex, reusable systems that establish best practices. You'll play a pivotal role in our active modernization efforts, including a new project aimed at offboarding a long-standing legacy solution, ensuring a seamless transition to a more scalable and future-proof platform.
- Work in a diverse tech environment using .NET, Typescript, React, SQL, MongoDB, message brokers, and AWS services, and contribute to project delivery through a large team and complex stakeholder landscape.
- Serve as a mentor within our team of passionate engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and quality, encouraging mutual mentorship, and tackling intricate system issues proactively.
- Be a cornerstone in our team, leading with selflessness and dedication to effecting transformative changes that significantly impact our teams and product development.
Who you are:
- You have 5+ years of professional experience in programming languages like C#, Java, or TypeScript/JavaScript.
- You deeply understand different architectural styles (microservices, modular monoliths) and programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented) and their trade-offs, particularly within the .NET and AWS ecosystems.
- You are enthusiastic about modernizing an ancient legacy system into a scalable architecture, applying Domain-Driven Design principles to simplify and effectively manage a complex business domain.
- You are empathetic and adept at understanding business contexts, effectively bridging the gap between technical and non-technical domains.
- You are a lifelong learner, eagerly venturing beyond your technical comfort zone to explore new technologies, always with an eye for the most pragmatic solution.
- You are a strong team player with exceptional communication skills, are passionate about collaboration, and are adept at articulating complex concepts to a diverse, cross-functional audience.
Why you'll love working here: Work in our beautiful Cambridge, MA where you'll enjoy comprehensive professional development, frequent social programming and employee-run DEIB Resource Groups and clubs. You can expect:
- Paid international and domestic travel at least once a year (more as you grow with us)
- Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: our hybrid work model with up to two days of work-from-home flexibility work per week, after your initial onboarding
- Robust professional growth opportunities including monthly trainings, workshops, and inspiring talks with global leaders and experts
- Four weeks paid vacation your first year and ten paid holidays
- 25% company match on your 401(k) contribution
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance
- Wellness benefits and a yearly fitness reimbursement
- EF program discounts including travel, language schools, childcare, and more
- Dependent care, healthcare, and commuter flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Discounts at local venues and businesses
About EF Education First At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs-focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics-turn dreams into international opportunities. When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about-we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique. Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, So Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zrich, and more. Learn more at