Staff Back-End Engineer - Airline Transportation

The backend services this role will build serves customers across the globe. You will get to work with a highly motivated team pushing features at a fast clip. The services are going to be mission critical for our users to pay, book and expense their trips within seconds. The role will support a highly reliable and resilient application. You will be part of continuously improving culture that values craftsmanship and developer productivity.

What You'll Do: 

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
• Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
• Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies 
• Problem solving and improving existing system 

What We're Looking For:

• 7-10 years or equivalent quality experience, preferably in startup environments
• In-depth experience with Java and Spring Framework
• Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals
• Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems serving developers and/or end users
• Ability to be a innovative problem solver that can turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions, and comfort with new technology and thinking outside the box to develop and implement solutions
• Ability to influence without authority, working with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report into this role
• Experience with airline and/or travel solving is a must
• Ability to deliver features on your own 
• Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
• Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment 
• Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus
• Experience with AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus