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SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Egencia is one of the world's leading corporate travel management companies and is part of American Express Global Business Travel. We work with clients to ensure their employees have a phenomenal experience when they travel for work. We also help companies understand their business travel expenses and fulfill their duty of care. We seek a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our team of experienced software developers.

The Egencia Search team builds features and tools to empower our travelers to search for all our product offerings and allow travelers the ability to book their complete trip on the platform. The team's responsibilities span web development and backend micro-services using multiple languages and frameworks including Java, React, Spring, and Kotlin.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Take a whole systems approach to analyze use cases, design, implement, and maintain integrated solutions applying standard engineering methodologies
• Successfully conduct day-to-day activities and solve complex issues in your engineering domain
• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related systems using a variety of software development tools
• Lead and participate in design and code reviews
• Partner with Product to refine business requirements
• Collaborate with peers across regions, within and outside your direct organization
• Seek and share domain and industry knowledge between multi-functional teams to improve engineering practices
• Possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases, and platforms to connect different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
• Advocate for operational excellence and project quality via system resilience and scalability, testing, monitoring, alerting
• Report on the status of high-visibility projects to leadership
• Enthusiastically seek opportunities to improve our customers' experiences
• Guide other engineers in the design of software that is easily maintainable, testable, and observable

WHO YOU ARE:

• 6+ years of development experience
• Bachelor's / Master’s in Computer Science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• Strong experience developing and delivering highly available enterprise web applications using Java, Kotlin, and Spring
• Experience in front-end web technologies including JavaScript, Node, or React
• A deep understanding of web platform technologies using REST and SOAP web service protocols
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and multiple database/data store technologies
• Ability to understand highly complex systems and explain technology choices to technical and non-technical observers
• Experience leading complex, well-defined projects and guiding integrations across teams within business unit
• Excellent problem-solving and strong communication skills
• Communicate with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format
• Experience as a Software Engineer mentoring junior engineers and applying engineering principles to improve existing systems

Relocation (Y/N): N

     

Location

Bellevue, Washington, United States

     

     

The base salary range for this position in this location zone is from $159,000 to $222,500.  The 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.

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to be nominated for awards under our Equity Incentive Plan.  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.

• 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 more.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at 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.

• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

• And much more!

This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.

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.

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 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!