Lead Engineer

Here at Avis Budget Group, you will be joining a team of 25,000 driven people, performing with purpose. Together, we’re moving the future of transportation forward with our innovative, customer-focused solutions.

Our culture is performance driven, where we encourage and support each other to be at our best through leadership, training, tools, and rewards.

We are proud to make a positive difference to the lives of our colleagues, customers, and communities where we operate.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct agile team kick-offs, setting expectations with team members based on best practices established for ABG
• Serve as internal agile expert/coach for teams by support product members and product managers as they transition to agile model
• Support capability leads and product managers around delivery of new capabilities – to better understand feasibility, agile team involvement, high level sizing, and delivery timing.
• Collaborate with product managers on larger initiatives requiring multiple teams to complete various the work
• Facilitate and/or participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning with Capability leads, Product Managers, and stakeholders;
• Work with Engineering Leads, Capability lead(s), and Product Manager(s) to driving larger initiatives, bringing together the right skillsets and ensuring the success of your agile team.
• Work with third-party vendors to onboard resources and ensure capacity to support project teams
• Remove blockers related to team on boarding and ramp-up / ramp down / transition teams / members when needed
• Responsible for the L3 support and own the resolution of issues for the products associated with
• Focus on tech health of products and work with Architects to evolve the maturity of technology & platforms
• Be the focal point of contact for Service Management organization focused on – Change, Incident, Platform support to ensure the availability and stability of products
  
  

• Lead the development of internal platforms, logistics tools, and operations software that drive business impact.
• Bring a strong background in software, data, or operations engineering.
• Manage and mentor engineers across various seniority levels with a focus on quality and growth.
• Design, build, and maintain highly available and reliable distributed systems.
• Demonstrate hands-on expertise in cloud platforms like AWS and OCI (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC).
• Drive cloud migration and modernization efforts, including re-architecting legacy systems.
• Apply cloud-native design principles and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Establish and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, fleet, product, and data teams to solve real-world problems.
• Show a passion for engineering excellence, system reliability, and user-focused design.
• Exhibit strong communication skills to align technical decisions with business priorities.
• Provide technical leadership by diving into code, conducting reviews, and setting quality standards.
• Create detailed service specifications, perform data modeling, and develop Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Maintain flexibility to operate between high-level strategic planning and low-level technical execution.