by Anthony Byledbal Note: At Skyscanner, our teams work using a hybrid model. When not in the office, we want optimise our experience and keep close connection with our team members Video calls are usually meetings. An invitation is sent to participants and, on the scheduled day and time, all…

By Tom Butterwith, Engineering Manager Designing systems at scale can be a daunting task at the best of times and when you add in the complexity of managing stakeholders, the whole process can get complicated fast. One of our engineering principles at Skyscanner is that we peer-review every change and…

By Emanuel Müller Ramos, Skyscanner Engineering Director For many companies, this time of year is often appraisal or performance review season. Feedback is really important as we each seek to learn, progress and improve generally. However, making sure everyone is rated fairly and consistently can often be tricky if companies…

As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this week, we’re profiling female-identifying engineers across our business. Maria Sepulveda is a Senior Security Engineer at Skyscanner. An expert within information security, Maria led the recertification of Skyscanner’s PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry data Security Standard) compliance. Maria took an unconventional…

She is Skyscanner’s most senior female engineer, but Myra Fulton’s career as she knows it almost didn’t happen — a last-minute decision to change her university course from hospitality to engineering set her on a completely different path to the one she’d intended. …

As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this week, we’re profiling female-identifying engineers across Skyscanner’s business. …

Andrew Phillips is VP of Engineering at Skyscanner, and joined the company as a grad back in 2009. He shares his career journey, the things he’s learned along the way and the best advice he’s received in making the big leaps to senior roles. Andrew, you were probably Skyscanner’s OG grad, back in 2009. How did that happen? I guess the story started years…

My experience of relocating with Skyscanner I started my career at Skyscanner at a potentially inauspicious time — right as the pandemic started to hit the UK, and just as I was moving 7,000 miles, from my home country of Argentina. I took on the role of Software Engineer in…

Mhairi McClair, Engineering Manager I wasn’t always an Engineering Manager: I spent years in a very hands-on engineering role and moving over to a manager role was a mix of intentional and a little accidental. I’d taken on a more customer-facing technical role on a client-facing project, visiting clients to…