Senior Software Engineer (Back End)

SilverRail; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join SilverRail as a Senior Software Engineer to be part of a mission to reshape travel technology. You will collaborate with product owners and a talented team to develop scalable systems focused on enhancing customer experiences in eco-friendly rail travel. With your expertise in Java and Spring, you'll mentor junior members and contribute to innovative software solutions that reduce the carbon footprint, while enjoying a flexible working model and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Rail discounts

Wellbeing seminars

Membership to leading meditation app

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 5 years’ hands-on experience in software engineering.
• Strong experience in SaaS platforms.
• Experience building JSON and XML APIs.

Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of software components.
• Mentoring junior team members on coding best practices and modular architecture.
• Contribution to design and evolution of APIs.

Skills

Java 11+

Spring

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Agile (Scrum)

NoSQL

RESTful principles

Git SCM

AWS

Docker

Education

BSc or equivalent

Job description

At SilverRail, we're on a mission to reshape the way the world travels, and we're inviting you to be part of this journey. Rail is becoming the go-to choice for short and medium-haul travel worldwide, and we're here to help make it happen.

In the face of the ongoing climate crisis, our vision is crystal clear. We are transforming the online customer experience for rail travel, making it easier than ever for customers to find, buy and use rail. Our cutting-edge technology is the backbone of rail and travel agencies worldwide, making it effortless for travellers to choose the eco-friendly option and reduce their carbon footprint.

We have more than 15 years of trailblazing success behind us, and our teams are spread across the globe, with bases in London, Boston, Brisbane, and Stockholm. We thrive on the philosophy of 'fail-fast-fail-early,' which drives us to find ingenious solutions to complex challenges.

Join us, and help shape the future of travel!

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll thrive on collaborating with your peers and participating in the design and development process with product owners. You’ll bring your passion for writing clean, solid code to our highly scalable system. You will bring your technical and functional experience, working hands on in development as well as acting as a mentor and advisor to the team to help us continuously improve our engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software components including unit and integration tests as well as documentation.
• Definition and evolution of REST and SOAP APIs, including Customer API development
• Promotion of modular, testable and maintainable Spring applications
• Mentoring fellow team members how to write clean, maintainable, scalable and secure code while following best practices.
• Ability to support and mentor junior members of the team
• Contribution to the design of application and services
  

Required Competence and Skills

• BSc or equivalent experience, plus 5 years’ hands-on experience.
• Good knowledge of Java 11+, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and relational and non-relational databases including MySQL.
• Strong experience working on SaaS platforms, ideally in booking, payments or e-commerce.
  
• Experience with modern data storage using NoSQL
• Experience building JSON and XML API’s. Knowledge of RESTful principles
• Experience working in an Agile (Scrum) environment
• Experience using Git SCM and CI/CD pipelines. GitLab experience would be beneficial.
• Experience working on cloud technologies such as AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
  
  
• Experience with micro-services and SaaS architectures.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture and Domain-driven design concepts.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritise workloads under pressure and meet deadlines
• A self-starter who is hands-on and knows how to find answers and work with ambiguity.
• Values-driven and practical in your approach.
  
• We utilise a hybrid working model, providing equipment for home working alongside one or two monthly visits to our beautiful central London office.
• We offer a highly competitive benefits package including private healthcare and rail discounts.
• We provide a wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be.
• Our team’s health and wellness is genuinely important to us, so we offer a number of wellbeing seminars and membership to the #1 leading meditation app.
• We are the fourth company in the world to become reproductively responsible, accredited by Hertility providing educational workshops around women’s health, family planning and fertility as well as progressive leave policies & hormone testing
• A unique opportunity to work for a tech company that is helping the environment by revolutionising the way we travel.

Our values are simple: Do Good by working for a better tomorrow; Think Big Act Smart by being curious, adaptable and data-driven; and remember that through collaboration we will always be Stronger Together .

*We are a neurodiverse employer and are working hard to improve our recruitment processes, so if there is any way that we can make the recruitment experience better for you then please let us know in your application - all information will be treated as strictly confidential*

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