To support the product and technology team on new and existing systems as required.
Champion agile best practices and Continuous Delivery to drive down backlog.
To design and develop pragmatic, complete and maintainable software solutions
To sustain and improve the quality of the software and the documentation delivered by the team.
To maintain a good technical awareness and familiarity with new and forthcoming relevant
technologies and highlight any skills or training requirements within the team.
To provide detailed planning input including estimated effort to develop certain functionality and to
identify any specific technical or resource dependencies and/or risks the Software Engineer might
be aware of.
To contribute to and/or lead software analysis, design and specification tasks for specific
functionality.
To actively engage in and contribute to agile planning and design sessions.
To provide competent, proactive and professional technical support if and when required to
customers and clients.
To support and initiate agile process improvements that will improve productivity, effectiveness
and professionalism of the team as a whole.
Maintain code documentation to company standards that accurately reflects system functionality
and its technical implementations.
Work as part of Code Peer Review community to improve the quality of software development
Contribute to regular Project Team meetings to ensure the correct tasks are being worked on and share key decisions required, risks identified and highlight and issues encountered.
Knowledge, skills and experience required:
Min 8 years of relevant work experience.
Extensive experience in large scale enterprise software development with a global reach.
Expert in creating simple solutions to complex problems.
Proficient in multiple programming languages with deep knowledge in many of the following:
Experience in Relational and Document database like MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL and
PostgreSQL.
Experience in designing and building RESTful API services.
Working knowledge of event driven framework like Kafka.
Deep understanding of SOLID Principles, Design Patterns and working experience of putting them to practice.
Demonstratable experience of Test Driven Development, unit testing tools, and experience of integration testing and continuous integration / deployment.
Experience in automation test tools and frameworks like Serenity, Cucumber, Jest, Supertest,
Playwright, Detox etc.
Working knowledge of cloud deployment and technologies, including AWS and Terraform.
Experience in native mobile app development, Java and Springboot is a plus.
Experience of working with PCI compliant software products is desirable.
Experience of working across multiple delivery organisations practising distributed development in a global environment.
Self-motivator with a willingness to learn new skills
Ability to thrive in a fast moving and changing environment
Ability to show initiative and to work independently
Ability to work at pace, work through project challenges in a collegiate way
Goal and outcome orientated
Thoroughness and attention to detail
Good communication skills (ability to present, inform and guide others)
Ability to generate ideas and draw them out of others
Ability to bridge communications between technical and business focused groups
Willingness to take on a variety of roles and responsibilities
About us: Our story
The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.
We have more than 25 years' experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.
We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception - from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to b
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
Recruiter for this role:
Britney Dias
Collinson's' Travel Experience division has an ambitious roadmap to deliver customer centric global solutions with consideration for regional difference.
The role of Senior Software Engineer is to design solutions that are aligned with user and client needs, as well as meeting business goals and KPIs.
You will join an engineering community focused on building out our platform capability. Our vision is to provide a core platform capability while empowering regional and client developments built on top of our travel ecosystem.