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.
- Will 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 related 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 level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable.
- Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need.
- Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well defined technology choices.
- Guiding integrations across teams within 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.
- Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level.
- Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level.
- Guides others in design of 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 national range provided includes the base salary that Egencia expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.
For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, 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.
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Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
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Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
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Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
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We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
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And much more!
All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.
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Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult the Amex GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.
What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!
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What We Do
American Express Global Business (Amex GBT) is the world’s leading B2B travel platform, providing software and services to manage travel, expenses, meetings & events for companies of all sizes.
Our solutions include:
Egencia: the leading software as service travel platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Ovation: the solution synonymous with high-touch travel service.
The Neo Technology Group: a technology-focused team that builds cloud-based travel solutions.
Meetings & Events: providing solutions for a single meeting or an entire meetings portfolio.
Global Business Consulting: customized services to help clients optimize their travel program.
Why Work With Us
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. Ready to explore a career path? Start your journey with us - apply now!
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