Senior Software Backend Engineer

At SiteMinder we believe the individual contributions of our employees are what drive our success. That’s why we hire and encourage diverse teams that include and respect a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their unique selves to work and be proud of doing so. It’s in our differences that we will keep revolutionising the way for our customers. We are better together!

What We Do…

We’re people who love technology but know that hoteliers just want things to be simple. So since 2006 we’ve been constantly innovating our worldleading hotel commerce platform to help accommodation owners find and book more guests online quickly and simply.

We’ve helped everyone from boutique hotels to big chains, enabling travellers to book igloos, cabins, castles, holiday parks, campsites, pubs, resorts, Airbnbs, and everything in between.

And today, we’re the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, supporting 47,000 hotels in 150 countries with over 125 million reservations processed by SiteMinder’s technology every year.

About the Senior Software Backend Engineer role...

In this role you will use your backend development experience to build and enhance our products our projects vary between natively developing in our new cloudbased microservices architecture and others will involve migration.

What youll do...

• Refine and deliver product requirements with minimum support

• Work with a crossfunctional distributed team in an agile methodology

• Participate in release and sprint planning

• Write clean, wellorganised code, while making appropriate tradeoffs between performance, robustness, extensibility

• Support production systems on a shared roster basis

• Work closely with other developers, pairprogramming, reviewing pull requests, and contributing incremental improvements to code and coding practices.

• Mentor and support junior developers

• Able to understand and write infrastructure as a code

• What you have...

  • Experienced in multiple languages such as Node.js (mandatory) & Typescript

  • Understand microservices architectures and RESTful APIs

  • AWS experience across one or more of the following EC2, Kinesis, SQS, ElastiCache, Lambda, and S3

  • • Competent with database technologies (e.g.RDMS such as MySQL, PostgreSQL andor NoSQL like DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB)

    • • Understand code testability, build pipelines, Docker and CICD systems

      • Keep up with best practices, latest technologies and programming languagesframeworks as needed

      • Liaise and work with product, and other technology and delivery teams to deliver high quality software solutions

      • Our Perks & Benefits…
        Equity packages for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
        Preferably Hybrid working model or Fully remote (inoffice & from home)
        Mental health and wellbeing initiatives
        Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
        Paid birthday, study and volunteering leave every year
        Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
        Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and get involved
        Investment in your personal growth offering training for your advancement

        Does this job sound like you? If yes, wed love for you to be part of our team! Please send a copy of your resume and our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

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