Senior Director, Platform Engineering
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Department: Engineering
Our Mission: Why Lighthouse?
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. We don't just deliver insights; we empower businesses to make decisions that move revenue.
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. With Lighthouse AI, the intelligence gets deeper. Decisions get smarter. Actions get faster. We help hoteliers be first to act.
Lighthouse Values: Our guiding light
We are Lumineers. Our shared values keep us on a collaborative path fostering a cultural and customer centric environment
- Pursuit of greatness: We’re innovators who care deeply about our customers’ success. Our team brings their best work, stays curious, and delivers excellence through attention to detail
- Meaningful work matters: We make every moment count by knowing what to deliver, why it matters, and how it drives Lighthouse forward
- Elevate each other: We don’t just work together - we grow together. What unites us is understanding each other as people and working toward shared goals
We’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀
Job details
● 💼 Engineering Team
● 📍 Belgium - Ghent
● 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid
What you will do
As our new Senior Director of Platform, you will provide dedicated leadership for our core engineering centers of excellence. You will own the strategy for our Frontend, Backend, and DevOps platform teams, guiding the underlying architecture for all products and supporting the integration of newly acquired businesses. Reporting to our CISO, your leadership will be crucial in ensuring our technical choices are scalable, future-proof, and AI-ready, allowing you to shape the foundation of our entire engineering ecosystem.
Where you will have impact
- Drive technology strategy for Lighthouse’s internal developer platform, ensuring that our foundational architecture supports scalability, velocity, and standardization across all engineering squads.
- Define the strategy and technical foundations to ensure our codebases and platforms are AI-ready, enabling AI-first application development across engineering squads.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary group of Frontend, Backend, and DevOps engineers, while empowering your teamleads to drive the community and standards for their respective Engineering Chapters.
- Oversee the design and operation of our critical technical foundations, from global cloud infrastructure and high-throughput CI/CD pipelines to our shared Design System and component libraries.
- Partner with leadership across PED to treat the "Internal Platform" as a product, ensuring that our tooling roadmap directly addresses developer friction and accelerates business value.
- Champion a holistic Service Maturity framework that spans the entire stack. You will define and govern the standards for engineering excellence across the organization. This includes setting the bar for quality across diverse areas such as Design System adoption, API governance, software lifecycle management, or infrastructure efficiency.
- Act as the technical bridge for peer departments and acquired businesses, facilitating their integration into our ecosystem and ensuring that our shared infrastructure evolves to meet the needs of a growing organization.
- You align the goals and activities of several different departments or divisions ensuring they work together cohesively to achieve a unified strategic outcome.
- You effectively negotiate matters of significance and reconcile multiple stakeholder views to drive business results.
About our team
Our Platform department is the engine room of Lighthouse engineering, the foundation upon which all our products are built. This group is composed of our centers of excellence: Frontend, Backend, and DevOps. This team is responsible for creating the scalable, robust, and innovative systems that empower our product teams and support the integration of new companies into our ecosystem. It's a highly technical environment where we tackle complex challenges and set the technical direction for the future of Lighthouse.
What's in it for you?
- 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.
Who you are
- A seasoned engineering leader with experience scaling Platform, DevOps, or Foundation teams in a high-growth SaaS environment. You have a track record of managing managers and guiding large-scale technical organizations.
- A product-minded strategist. You treat your internal developer platform as a product. You know how to balance the need for operational rigor with the goal of reducing friction and maximizing developer velocity.
- Technically versatile across the stack. You possess deep context in cloud-native infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes, AWS/GCP) but also understand the architectural challenges of modern frontend ecosystems and backend microservices.
- A collaborative bridge-builder. You excel at translating complex technical constraints for diverse audiences. You can effectively align roadmaps with peer departments and recently acquired business units without needing direct authority over them.
- You are passionate about driving the adoption of the latest AI technologies to enhance developer velocity.
- Passionate about engineering culture. You believe in the power of Engineering Chapters. You have experience mentoring leaders and fostering a community of knowledge sharing, technical alignment, and continuous learning.
- Obsessed with Service Maturity. You thrive in environments where quality is a system, not a slogan. You have experience defining the standards (SLOs, Golden Paths) that allow teams to move fast with confidence.
We welcome
- Experience in the hospitality or travel tech industry.
- Prior experience with M&A technology integration.
- A background in Design Systems or specific frontend platform work.
Technologies you will work with
Kubernetes, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, Design Systems, Microservices architecture, Modern frontend ecosystems, Infrastructure-as-Code, Monitoring & Observability platforms.
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is part of our culture. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please notify your recruiter.
Not ticking every box? No problem! We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you!
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