Senior Software Engineer

The Role

Together we're on a mission to power every property in the world and to do that, we need to find the best talent in the world. That's why we're on the search for a superstar Senior Software Engineer, to help us reinvent the world of hospitality tech and travel.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help design and deliver the core features for our customers, working with the Product team and other engineers to deliver high-scale performant features rapidly. Your work will be critical to the success of [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] and its partner ecosystem, delivering high reliability and quality in a distributed cloud environment spanning [Employer hidden] and our partners.

Our development strategy is to deliver trusted, scalable, and reliable products leveraging the best of modern technologies, tools, and standards. For the Senior Software Engineering role, we are looking for someone who has worked with a broad range of patterns, practices, libraries, and frameworks. You will participate in strategic decisions regarding the use of libraries and tools. You will assist with the refinement of requirements, architectural design, exploratory development, creation of new components, and the adoption of new tools and techniques.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Participate as a member of an agile engineering team, contributing (following best practices) to our application codebase daily.
• Develop in the existing codebase using PHP and Java.
• Engage in discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code.
• Support a team environment where skill, knowledge, and capability are fostered and highly valued.
• Assist in researching new technologies to ensure the best fit, quality, and outcome.
• Collaborate with our customers and partners to find the best solution to problems

What Sets You Up for Success:

• 5+ years of PHP or Java web application software engineering experience.
• 2+ years experience working with relational databases
• 1+ years of experience in designing and developing event-driven microservices
• A solid understanding of REST API’s and best practices
• Solid understanding of secure software engineering concerns.
• Dedication towards observability by leveraging metrics, experiments, and prototypes to ensure decisions are data-driven.
• Strong knowledge and a passion for software engineering best practices, design patterns, and automated testing.
• Strong teamwork and time management skills.
• Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written skills)

Bonus Skills to Stand Out:

• Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team
• Experience in engineering software for large-scale solutions, utilizing modern tooling to get you there.
• Experience developing in Java, PHP or Python
• Experience with modern infrastructure tooling (e.g. DataDog, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS).
• Travel industry experience is a plus but not required.
• Experience with large-scale Domain Driven Design