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 world-leading 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 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 cloud-based microservices architecture and others will involve migration.

What you'll do...

• Refine, design, and deliver product requirements

• Work with a cross-functional team in an agile methodology

• Participate in roadmap, release, and sprint planning

• Write clean, well organized code while making appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, extensibility

What you'll have...

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

• Experienced in multiple languages such as Node.js (mandatory) and Kotlin (desirable) to help us build backend solutions

• 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 key/value store databases such as DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis

• Understand code testability, build pipelines, Docker and CI/CD 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 cross-functional mindset

Our Perks & Benefits…
- Equity packages for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
- Hybrid working model (in-office & from home)
- Mental health and well-being 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, we'd 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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