Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Job Description

At SiteMinder we believe the individual contributions of our employees are what drive our success. That?s why we hire and encourage diverse teams that include and respect a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their unique selves to work and be proud of doing so. It?s in our differences that we will keep revolutionising the way for our customers. We are better together! What We Do? We?re people who love technology but know that hoteliers just want things to be simple. So since 2006 we?ve been constantly innovating our world-leading hotel commerce platform to help accommodation owners find and book more guests online - quickly and simply. We?ve helped everyone from boutique hotels to big chains, enabling travellers to book igloos, cabins, castles, holiday parks, campsites, pubs, resorts, Airbnbs, and everything in between. And today, we?re the world?s leading open hotel commerce platform, supporting 50,000 hotels in 150+ countries - with over 130 million reservations processed by SiteMinder?s technology every year. About The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) Role? As Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible to design, develop software solutions according to SiteMinder's engineering standard. Take ownership to solve. Maintain system resilience and improve engineering quality and efficiency. What You?ll Do? Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications with a focus on performance and scalability Collaborate with cross-functional distributed agile team to deliver high quality solution Work closely with other developers, pair-programming, reviewing pull requests, and contributing incremental improvements to code and coding practices Lead code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers to uphold coding standards and best practices. Lead and participate in release and team activities such as planning, daily stand-up and sprint review Write clean, well-organised code, while making appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, and extensibility Support production systems via on-call roster Able to understand and write infrastructure as a code Lead and participant in guild to drive for improvements What You Have? Experienced in Java/JVM technologies, preferably SpringBoot Previous experience in Kotlin is highly desirable Understand micro-services architectures and RESTful APIs AWS experience with one or more of the following: EC2, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, S3 Competent with relational databases (e.g MySQL, Aurora) and key/value store databases (e.g. Cassandra, Redis) Understand code testability, build pipelines, docker, and CI/CD systems Keep up with best practices, technologies, and programming languages/frameworks Our Perks & Benefits? Mental health and well-being initiatives Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy Flexibility to work in a Hybrid model (2-3 days in-office) Paid birthday, study and volunteering leave every year Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and get involved Investment in your personal growth offering training for your advancement Does this job sound like you? If yes, we'd love for you to be part of our team! Please send a copy of your resume and our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any adjustments you may need during the interview process. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.