Senior Back End Software Engineer - Payments

Together we're on a mission to power every property in the world and to do that we need to find the best talent in the world. That's why we're on the search for a superstar Senior Back End Software Engineer to work with the Payments team and help us play our part in reinventing the world of hospitality tech and travel.

As a Senior Back End Software Engineer on our Payments team you will help deliver an exceptional product experience to our customers all around the world.  This could be for hotel guests creating a user experience that makes travelers feel welcome comfortable and inspired to share the joy of travel with others. Or it could be for our accommodation providers building trusted simple easy-to-use features to support key aspects of their daily business.

Our development strategy is to deliver trusted scalable and reliable products leveraging the best of modern technologies tools and standards.  For the Senior Software Engineering role we are looking for someone who has worked with a broad range of patterns practices libraries and frameworks.  You will participate in strategic decisions regarding the use of libraries and tools.  You will assist with the refinement of requirements architectural design exploratory development creation of new components and the adoption of new tools and techniques.

Location: Remote - EU

What You Will Do:

• Participate as a member of an agile engineering team contributing (following best practices) to our application codebase on a daily basis.

• Support and mentor more junior Engineers in growing their knowledge and skill-sets.

• Implement features and improvements in Java and PHP. The role requires you to be equally comfortable in both languages / stacks.

• Develop in the existing PHP monolith and develop microservices architecture in Java and/or PHP.

• Engage in discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Write clean well-tested well-documented and elegant code.

• Support a team environment where skill knowledge and capability are fostered and highly valued.

• Drive the optimization and flexibility of our software engineering process ensuring we get the best outcome possible from TDD CI/CD DDD and Agile approaches.

• Drive progress in planning prioritizing and executing assigned tasks within deadlines.

• Assist in researching new technologies to ensure best fit quality and outcome.

• Collaborate effectively on technical design with peers on complex features.

You’ll Succeed With:

• 3+ years of core Java experience ideally with a very solid knowledge of Spring Boot.

• 3+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.

• 2+ years experience working with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Tuning and optimization skills are preferred.

• 1+ years of experience of designing and developing event-driven microservices in Java and/or PHP.

• Experience within an organization that focused on high availability scalability security automation and observability.

• Experience of modern infrastructure tooling (e.g. DataDog GitHub Kubernetes Docker AWS).

• Solid understanding of secure software engineering concerns.

• A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects.

• Dedication towards observability by leveraging metrics experiments and prototypes to ensure decisions are data-driven.

• Strong knowledge and a passion for software engineering best practices design patterns and automated testing.

• Strong teamwork and time management skills.

• Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement.

• Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written skills)

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with a remote-first and globally-distributed team

• Experience of engineering software for large scale solutions utilizing modern tooling to get you there.

• Travel industry experience is a plus but definitely not required.

• Experience in the Payments domain is a plus but definitely not required.

• Experience with large scale Domain Driven Design would be great but definitely not necessary.

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