Senior Back End Software Engineer

Description:

As a Senior 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.

You’ll Succeed With

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.
• Experience within an organization that focused on high availability, scalability, security, automation, and observability.
• Experience with 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 in engineering software for large-scale solutions, utilizing modern tooling to get you there.
• Experience developing in Java.
• 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.