Senior Software Development Engineer (Hybrid)

American Express Global Business Travel; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in corporate travel technology seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their Chicago team. The role involves both front-end and back-end development, focusing on innovative solutions that enhance the travel experience. Candidates should have extensive development experience and be proficient in technologies such as JAVA, Kotlin, and React. The company values collaboration and offers a flexible benefits package, ensuring a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible benefits

Travel perks

Access to over 20,000 courses

Champion Inclusion

Qualifications

• 6+ years development experience required.
• Technical excellence in developing high-performance, scalable web applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.
• Conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in technical engineering area.
• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.

Skills

JAVA

Kotlin

JavaScript

React

Spring

Education

Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

SOAP

REST

Job description

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

The Senior Software Development Engineer Egencia Lodging Team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our team of experienced software developers in the Chicago office. The Lodging Team's responsibilities span front-end web development to back-end travel services. We are looking for someone who can leverage their deep technical knowledge, passion for solving real-world business problems, and dedication to innovative thinking to ensure Egencia continues to be the technology leader in the corporate travel space. Launched in 2002, Egencia has become the world’s leading digital corporate travel platform because of our commitment to delivering a higher standard of corporate travel service and innovative technology.

What You’ll Do:

• Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.
• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.
• Successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area.
• Share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.
• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.
• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• Advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions.
• Take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made.
• Spot outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner.
• Report on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means.
• Ensure documentation is complete.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years development experience; Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Technical excellence in developing high-performance, scalable web applications using JAVA, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, and Spring.
• A deep understanding of web platform technologies utilizing SOAP and REST web service protocols.
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and multiple database/data store technologies.
• Ability to identify business problems at the project and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable.
• Strong understanding of how team goals fit business needs.
• Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers.
• Guiding integrations across teams within the business unit.
• Able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems.
• Ability to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level.
• Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level.
• Guides others in designing software that is easily testable and observable.

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The US national annual base salary range for this position is from $120,000 to $240,000. The actual salary will depend on factors including scope, complexity, experience, skills, and location.

For more details about our US benefits programs, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

Benefits at a glance

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits: tailored to each country, including health and welfare insurance, retirement, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources.
• Travel perks: weekly deals from major travel providers on flights, hotels, cruises, and car rentals.
• Develop your skills: access to over 20,000 courses, leadership programs, and internal job openings.
• Champion Inclusion: participate in global INclusion Groups to discuss challenges, achievements, and drive awareness.
• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration without regard to age, sex, gender, pregnancy, race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or protected characteristics.

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