Sr. Engineer - Travel & Lifestyle - Mobile Application

Sr. Engineer - Travel & Lifestyle - Mobile Application

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This role seeks a Sr. Engineer with 8+ years of experience, focusing on mobile application backend development using Kotlin or Java 17+, Spring, and CI/CD tools.

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to build the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel mobile application.

Seniority level: 8+ years of experience.

Essential Criteria

• 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment.
• Experienced in designing, programming, testing, and application design for microservices or backend for front ends for mobile applications using Kotlin or Java 17+ and Spring with build automation using Maven or Gradle.
• Observability - Sentry, ELK, Dynatrace.
• Experienced in technically leading an agile engineering team and contributing to agile ceremonies.
• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with GitHub Actions, CircleCI.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred.

Application Solutioning

• Architect and design the rails based on domain driven design in collaboration with solution architect, staff engineer, business architects, and consumer partners.
• Present solutions on an ongoing basis in wider forums including senior leaders to seek feedback, make continuous adjustments, and drive sign offs.
• Document architecture, technical requirements, high level and low level designs to include component design, data models, integration views, infrastructure design, and software technology stack.
• Conduct quantitative comparative analysis on solution options.

Software Development

• Set up the infrastructure and development environments.
• Write and deliver high quality code in the latest versions of Kotlin.
• Lead reviews of colleagues' work.
• Build monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
• Monitor system performance and availability and improve software quality through root cause analysis.
• Have deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and core tools used in planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining assigned application(s).

Leadership

• Prepare and present solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Demonstrate increased self reliance to achieve team goals.

Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom