About the position
Navitaire, an Amadeus company, are proven innovators in the travel industry shaping the way the world thinks about travel. With more than 50 customers worldwide, including many of the world's most successful hybrid and low-cost airlines, Navitaire offers a unique opportunity to make a large impact on the world of travel. Navitaire is evolving our portfolio of hosted services towards a next-generation modern airline retailing platform aligned to industry offer and order retailing concepts. This transformation is founded in principles of customer-centric value delivery and driven by cloud-first modern engineering practices. We are looking for talented and motivated people with a passion to innovate, collaborate, and learn together to join our team that will shape the evolution of our platform. This is a hybrid position and would require you to be in the local office 2-3 days a week. The Principal Engineer role within our modernization program will drive implementation of our next generation microservices using our modern application architecture based on domain-driven patterns, using hexagonal architecture with a focus on event-driven, API-first, and security-first approaches.
Responsibilities
- Write code to implement requested features using effective architecture
- Write unit tests and contribute to integration tests
- Collaborate with architects
- Mentor other engineers and contractors
- Assist in DevOps
- Work in a context of several cross functional agile teams
- Share the commitment to deliver quality working software on an agile cadence with aggressive targets around code deployment frequency and cycle time balanced with high quality and reliability
- Coordinate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to monitor quality in production and establish and measure SLOs and SLIs
- Advocate for engineering priorities such as performance improvements, technical debt pay down, test coverage, automation, a focus on understanding production issues and how to improve the code to improve the software's production performances
- Mentor and collaborate with third party software development contracting teams
- Tackle particularly difficult or important tasks that set new patterns
Requirements
- BS Degree in Computer Science, related equivalent, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in software development with C#
- Agile Mindset
- Advanced understanding of microservices architecture
- Demonstrable leadership experience, training, or skills
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Azure Dev Ops and/or GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Direct experience implementing and maintaining microservice code
- Knowledge of the Navitaire business or other airline experience
- Basic NoSQL and/or SQL database knowledge
- xUnit experience, TDD experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps
- Experience with Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Docker
- Experience with Kafka or Azure Event Hubs and Event Driven Architecture
Benefits
- A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.
- A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.
- Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.
- A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.
- A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
- A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.
- A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.
- A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.
