Lead Platform Engineer

lighthouse

Ghent, Belgium · Ghent · Belgium

Posted Aug 11, 2026

Full-time
Hybrid
Engineering

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Job description

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, Frontend Platform
📍 Belgium
🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid

What you will do

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.

You will turn broad goals into clear, well-documented plans; manage delivery and communicate progress; and partner with product engineers and solution architects to understand their needs and drive adoption. You will also own AI-assisted frontend tooling, improve the frontend harness so more engineers can contribute safely, and invest in the shared foundations, infrastructure, and delivery pipelines that support product teams, generative UI, and AI agents.

Where you will have impact

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.

About our team

You will join a small platform team whose mission is to provide the tools, education, and support that help product teams build the best user interfaces. The team owns shared frontend quality across work produced by engineers and AI agents, partnering closely with product engineers and solution architects to understand their needs, shape the roadmap, and drive adoption without working directly within each product team.

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

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 organise your own work, communicate progress, answer questions, document decisions, and keep complex initiatives moving.
Working beyond application code is comfortable for you, including shared tooling, cloud infrastructure, and delivery pipelines.
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.

We welcome

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

Technologies you will work with

TypeScript, React, Vite, TanStack, CSS modules, Tailwind, pnpm, Gitlab, Google Cloud Platform, Astro, Ember, Python, Go, Claude Code

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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