Senior Back End Software Engineer

Description:

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 Back End 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 daily.
• Support and mentor more junior Engineers, in growing their knowledge and skill sets.
• Implement features and improvements in PHP, plus have a strong desire to expand their knowledge to encompass a Java tech stack.
• Develop in the existing PHP monolith, and develop microservices architecture in PHP and Java.
• 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 the best fit, quality, and outcome.
• Collaborate effectively on technical design, with peers on complex features.