Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (1 year Maternity Cover)

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 Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) role...

We are looking for a senior-level Full Stack developer for a 1 year Fixed-Term contract to join our team. In this role, you will use your full-stack development experience to build and enhance our products. Our projects vary between natively developing in our new cloud-based microservices architecture, expanding our micro-frontend (Vue3) and improving internal tooling such as data migration.

What you’ll do…

• Refine, design, and deliver product requirements.

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

• Participate in the roadmap, release, and sprint planning

• Write clean, well-organised and testable code 

• Make appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, and extensibility and be able to articulate why you made those choices

What you have…

• Extensive experience in multiple languages, including Node.js and Ruby on Rails, to help us build backend systems and features

• Experience with TypeScript and/or Kotlin is a plus

• Knowledge of frontend frameworks such as Vue.js or React.js

• Knowledge of APIs and frameworks such as REST, GraphQL, Apollo, Express and Spring Boot is a plus

• 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)

• Understand code testability, build pipelines, Docker and CI/CD systems

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

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

• Ability to work on a project from inception to production independently with a cross-functional mindset

• Ability to add value to the team by mentoring, suggesting improvements or identifying optimisation opportunities

Our Perks & Benefits…

- Mental health and wellbeing initiatives
- Paid birthday leave
- 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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