Senior Software Development Engineer I

Job title:

Senior Software Development Engineer I

Company

Travelport

Job description

Job Description:Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.What’s Travelport?Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.What does a great Senior Front-End Engineer do?You will be creating, building and owning a suite of travel agency tools. You and your team will be designing and implementing new features to make these tools the most compelling and competitive products that are used by agencies in the travel business.As a web developer on a full stack team, you will be a bridge between Design, Product and Engineering. You will be collaborating closely with designers to define and optimize prototypes, and build components that are accessible, performant and responsive. You will also be collaborating with Product to spearhead important product design and usability decisions. Applicants require a sharp eye for detail and in-depth knowledge of CSS, HTML, JS and React.The impact of your work will be significant as you ship products that end up in the hands of agents that make the travel industry tick every single day. If you’re interested in making a global impact by delivering creative user experiences – we’d love to hear from you.Responsibilities:

• Working in an Agile environment and collaborating with teams
• Develop, modify, and enhance creative and responsive client-side web applications
• Build and implement feature & function-rich enterprise level websites
• Writing new and highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS via common UI Frameworks, with an emphasis towards React to support our responsive applications front end.
• Constantly research & identify new web technologies/trends to drive innovation, quality, and a fresh outlook
• Provide suggestions for improvement, betterment of the product from both technical and functional standpoints.
• Working with lead developers, architecture and product management to identity the optimal technical approach and contribute to the full solution design
• Work closely with designers throughout the design process – identify technical constraints, take part in design reviews, prototype solutions etc.
• Demo work regularly and communicate with the team
• Collaborate with UI developers across other product teams
• Develop and execute unit and end-to-end tests
• Ensure components meet accessibility, internationalization, and localization requirements
• Coach and guide your peers within the team

Key Measures:

• Maintain proper coding standards and quality
• Ease of solution maintenance.
• Internal feedback.
• On time deliveries
• Effective communication
• Maintain a positive work culture

What we look for/who would prosper in this role?

• Understanding and experience of all phases of the SDLC and experienced in working in a test-driven agile development environment.
• 5+ years’ experience in web front-end development is required
• 3+ years’ experience in any modern JavaScript Framework (React, Angular, VueJs), Jest, Babel, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 required, and a willingness to focus on React as the framework of choice
• Experienced with state managements tools i.e Redux, React Context API
• Working knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• A strong understanding of common JavaScript design patterns and concepts such as scope, closures, and prototypal inheritance and overall architectural patterns for web apps
• CI/CD strategies & technologies (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure pipelines) and experience deploying Web applications into cloud environments
• Good understanding about https protocol and security capabilities for web applications.
• Experience integrating web apps with RESTful APIs.
• Familiar with unit testing JavaScript (ideally react-testing-library) and integration test frameworks.
• Nice to have: experience with modern front-end tooling, including CSS pre-processors, build tools (e.g. Webpack, Gulp), testing frameworks, transpilers and module loaders
• Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance.
• Experience with facilitating code and technical review processes (merge request, pair programming)
• Has ability to take clear and efficient decisions and bridge gaps between product and dev team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:

• Are proactive, a self-starter and thrive on challenge
• Value quality highly and take great pride and ownership in your work and that of your team
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before
• Possess a growth mindset and see failure as a learning opportunity

These are just a few of our employee’s favourite benefits/perks…Competitive base salary, bonus, very generous holiday allowance + lots more!Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!**Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.About the Team:Global Technology Services function is responsible for ensuring security, quality, scalability and resiliency of all production services; architecting, planning, building and operating of the platform, supporting IT infrastructure and Enterprise Corporate Services across Travelport worldwide.

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:10:30 GMT

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