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 44,500 hotels in 150 countries - with over 100 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.
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.