Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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 Engineer (Backend) 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, design, and deliver product requirements

• Work with a crossfunctional team in an agile methodology

• Participate in roadmap, release, and sprint planning

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

• What you have...

  • Solid software development experience covering the full life cycle of the development from design to testing, release and ongoing support

  • Experienced in Node.js (Mandatory) and Kotlin to help us build backend solutions. Need experience with Typescript as well.

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

  • Knowledge on how to structure, develop and maintain relational databases such as MySQL

  • Experienced with or want to learn keyvalue store databases such as DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis

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

  • Experience in testing automation

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

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

  • Ability to work on a user story from inception to production independently with a crossfunctional mindset

  • Our Perks & Benefits…
    Equity packages for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
    Preferably Hybrid working model Fully Remote (inofficefrom 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.

    When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any adjustments you may need during the interview process. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.