Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Description

To structure our Engineering team, we are looking for highly performing individuals with strong technical background, that are driven by positive impact on end users.

By joining the Trip team, you’ll be building the heart of our new technical platform based on a state of the art service oriented architecture. We are building the algorithms behind the search engine that allow us to match millions of travellers together.

As Senior Software Engineer, your role is to lead the design of our solutions, making sure they are robust and scalable. You will also contribute to the development of the stack by developing features, guiding younger engineers in their choices and helping them to build a cloud compatible architecture.

What you will directly contribute to:

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager, in a team of 8 developers
• Being in charge of tech solution choices, from architecture design to effective delivery in production
• Spending more than half of your time as an individual engineering contributor within the team
• Encourage the transition from an on-premise architecture to a cloud base solution by understanding how to leverage best our cloud provider abilities
• Driving the developments (java preferred but not mandatory) and animating the software lifecycle  
• Fostering positive atmosphere around excellence and ambitious goals in your team
• Encouraging skills development of your fellow colleagues
• Ensuring qualitative documentation of tech decisions and code to allow smooth onboarding of newcomers on any given project