Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

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 (Java/Kotlin) Role...

Our Java/Kotlin teams work with our largest product - the Channel Manager - which is a large-scale, highly transactional distribution platform for hotels. We are heavily invested in cloud technologies and using asynchronous, reactive, and microservice architectures.

What You’ll Do…

• Refine and deliver product requirements with minimum support
• Work with a cross-functional distributed team in an agile methodology
• Participate in release and sprint planning
• Write clean, well-organised code, while making appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, extensibility
• Support production systems on a shared roster basis
• Work closely with other developers, pair-programming, 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…

• Extensive experience (minimum 5 years) in Java/JVM technologies, preferably springboot
• Understand microservice architectures and RESTful APIs
• AWS experience with one or more of the following: EC2, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, S3
• Competent with relational databases (e.g MySQL, Aurora) and key/value store databases (e.g. Cassandra, Redis)
• Understand code testability, build pipelines, docker, and CI/CD systems
• Keep up with best practices, technologies, and programming languages/frameworks
• Work with product and other teams to deliver high-quality software
  
  

Our Perks & Benefits…

• Competitive salary based on your experience
• Equity packages for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
• Flexibility to work fully remote or in a hybrid model (in-office & from home)
• Excellence-driven, collaborative and non-hierarchical culture
• 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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