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 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.

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 PHP and Java. PHP is the primary language, but the role requires you to be 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.