Software Development Engineer II

About the position

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings- plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can't solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we're looking for the best thinkers to help us do it. We're hiring right now for a Software Development Engineer II! Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain innovative applications and systems at scale and solve deep technical and mathematical challenges
• Develop high-quality, efficient production level code
• Continuously optimize and evolve complex applications and systems while lowering cost
• Collaborate with talented data scientists and engineers to deliver end-to-end products in a high velocity environment
• Establish and champion architectural standards that enable automated test and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production support
• Joining the On-Call rotation for our applications is a requirement

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• Hands-on industry experience in software design, development, and algorithmic problem-solving
• Proficiency in Scala, along with experience in at least one additional programming language
• A strong focus on writing high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka
• Experience with caching solutions like Redis or Memcached
• Building and designing RESTful or gRPC APIs and services
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of SQL, relational databases, or data warehouses

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program including medical, dental, vision
• Employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance
• Voluntary life options
• Competitive 401(k) match
• Generous paid time off policy
• Hybrid working model
• Annual volunteer day off
• New Child leave policy: birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, non-birthing parent receives 8 weeks