Lead Platform Engineer – Digital APIs

• This role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX, Memphis, TN, or Remote***

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that’s creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Platform Engineer – Digital APIs , you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Software Engineering Platform Architecture team reporting to the Director Platform Engineering, you will support projects including technical aspects of Hilton’s GraphQL API layer.

How We Will Support You**

Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:

• Go Hilton travel program: 100 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
• Hilton Shares: Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
• Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
• Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Learn more about the rest of our benefits

At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate. Hilton’s leadership development framework focuses on developing skills and business insight through a range of programs and approaches to meet varying learning needs and preferences.

• Available benefits may vary depending upon terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of the plans.

How You Will Make An Impact

Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique. **

What Your Day-to-day Will Be Like**

• Understand, document, and describe complex technical subjects in understandable terms.
• Facilitate collaborative planning, prioritization, oversight, and support of Hilton’s digital experience API platform in collaboration with Software Engineering, Leadership, and cross-product/multi-functional business partners.
• Drive the delivery of platform capabilities across Hilton’s web/mobile streams and stresses versatility as API platform interests are broad (forefront product awareness, enterprise infrastructure familiarity, data, API proficiency, etc.).
• Lead a wide variety of projects/tasks allowing agile/iterative platform development: roadmaps, context/sequence diagrams, epics, stories, collaboration space documentation, key presentations, etc.

How You Will Collaborate With Others

• Collaborate with key partners of multiple levels across the organization, including Product, Software Engineering, Core Architecture, and Security to balance interests and needs.

What Projects You Will Take Ownership Of

• API Platform Strategy - Allow cross-stream digital experiences across web and mobile apps by defining API and platform capabilities that use Hilton’s evolving service/API-driven infrastructure and third-party services/integration.
• API Platform Delivery Roadmaps – Drive API platform capability planning within platform delivery roadmaps with input from appropriate business partners to facilitate best-in-class guest experiences, alignment with enterprise-level technology transformation, and Hilton's digital growth, engagement, and revenue.
• API Platform Performance – Continually assess platform performance to find opportunities and platform-specific enhancements that will increase client application/platform performance and stability, or provide best-in-class advantages.
• API Platform SME – Sustain awareness of existing and upcoming API platform capabilities and communicate opportunities for platform enhancements to technology and product partners to support strategic planning as technologies evolve

WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT

You Have These Minimum Qualifications

• Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Four (4) years of software/platform design and implementation experience
• Working knowledge of query performance reports and optimization
• Strong understanding of API platforms and integration with web/mobile applications
• Technical competency in Node.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Javascript, Gitlab, and AWS technologies
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology
• 25% Travel as needed

It Would Be Useful If You Have

• Bachelor’s Degree, or Associate’s Degree plus 6+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience
• Seven (7)+ years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Experience with GraphQL

What It Is Like Working For Hilton

The future of hospitality is bright at Hilton: a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!

It is the policy of Hilton to employ qualified persons without regard to color, race, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medication conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, status as a protected veteran, disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable law, genetic information, or any other protected group status as defined by and subject to applicable federal, state and local laws. Hilton’s commitment to equal employment opportunity supports the attraction and retention of a diverse workforce that will enhance our effectiveness in attracting Team Members, customers, corporate partners, and owners.

We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.

Hilton offers its eligible team members a comprehensive benefits package including medical and prescription drug coverage, dental coverage, vision coverage, life insurance, short-and long-term disability insurance, access to our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) where you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount, a 401(k) savings plan, 20 days of paid time off accruing over your first year of employment and increasing up to 25 days after completing one year of full employment, up to 12 weeks of paid leave for birth parents and 4 weeks for non-birth parents, 10 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays throughout the year, up to 5 bereavement days, flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, an employee assistance program, access to a care coordination program (“Wellthy”), a legal services program, an educational assistance program, adoption assistance, a backup childcare program, pre-tax commuter benefit and our travel discount. The annual salary range for this role is $100,000-$140,000 and is determined based on applicable and specialized experience and location. Subject to plan terms and conditions, you will be eligible to participate in the Hilton Annual Incentive (Bonus) Plan, consistent with other team members at the same level and/or position within the Company. **

Work Locations**

Hilton - Systems Solutions - McLean **

Schedule**

Full-time **

Brand**

Hilton Corporate **

Shift**

Day Job **

Job Level**

Manager **

Job**

Software Engineering