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 that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We're leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel.

Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate.

What does a great Senior Software Developer Engineer do?

• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and customers to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Lead technical design and code reviews for the team to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Develop Java based APIs, microservices, and automated tests.
• Work with Director to gain understanding of long-term technology impacts and ensure development resources are developing in alignment with Travelport strategic vision.
• Participate in feature and story refinement and research and analyze impact for new capabilities.
• Ensure the successful completion of stories during each iteration to achieve Program Increment Objectives
• Drive team velocity by working closely with the team to motivate, guide and align all resources, ensuring functional development work and maintenance and support activities are completed in adherence to Travelport technology standards.
• Educate all development resources on java best practices, performance-minded development, and Travelport standards.
• Ensure team is updating status in corporate tools as required eg: Jira, MS teams, Confluence, etc
• Generate ideas to improve overall system design and/or streamline CI/CD pipeline to generate efficiencies in system flow.
• Participate in supporting the availability and stability of applications in production.

Who we are looking for in this role:

• 5-7+ years of Java development experience.
• Experience in the development of scalable enterprise applications in JSON, REST and services on private and public Cloud providers.
• Expertise with Eclipse, Linux, Spring/Hibernate, SonarQube, HTTPS, XML, WSDL, Postman, SQL, noSQL and SOAP services.
• Expertise with JUnit, REST-Assured or other automated testing technologies/tools
• Experience with Git or GitHub
• Expertise with containers and orchestrators, preferable Docker and OpenShift.
• Proven experience in leading high performing agile teams with a substantial commitment to DevOps practices and Behavior Driven Development.
• Proven expertise in micro services and cloud technologies.
• Experience in driving CI/CD initiatives and pipeline automation
• Excellent written and verbal skills, good interpersonal skills, effective conflict resolution skills, and good time management skills
• Agile/SAFe certifications and experience preferred.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Dynamic and self-motivated with high level of energy and enthusiasm
• Attention to detail, persistence, and follow-through a must.
• Appetite for learning and acquiring necessary knowledge quickly.
• Operates independently, requiring little supervision.
• Travel industry domain experience preferred.
• B.S. degree in relevant field}

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

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before

Benefits of working at Travelport

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life, a competitive 401(k) match. We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.

Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch!

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 Us

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation virtual marketplace connects travel buyers and travel sellers, that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences.

Unconflicted and independent, we are re-inventing a simpler future for travel's complex ecosystem.

Our platform gives the industry the power to help people see the world. We make it simple for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect to agencies and travelers, through personalized and engaging content.

We are a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities and customers we serve. We are socially responsible, and we give back to our communities.

We encourage our people to think differently and have the courage, confidence, and ambition to challenge what has been done before.

Travelport is on a mission to make Travel easier and more rewarding for everyone.

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.