Costco Travel IT is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the technical development of in-house travel booking web applications and drive engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience with design and development of client/server and/or web based applications.
- 5+ years’ experience with core Java, Java EE technologies (Servlet and JSP).
- 5 + years’ experience working with relational databases (preferably MS-SQL Server and T-SQL).
- Good understanding and experience with SOAP and/or REST based Web services.
- Demonstrated track record of driving high-quality software design/implementation to production.
- Must be a quick learner with the ability to learn and incorporate new technologies and concepts.
- Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
- Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.
- Oversees the technical design and development of in-house travel booking web applications based on the gathered requirements for multiple development teams.
- Leads and collaborates in planning, decomposing, and estimating new delivery work.
- Ensures solutions are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible; and proactively mitigates against production support issues.
- Demonstrates technical leadership to manage and provide multiple technical solutions; performs code reviews; establishes and enforces coding guidelines and best practices.
- Initiates and facilitates team meetings to socialize technical ideas; encourages a culture of technical excellence within the organization and identifies opportunities for adopting innovation.
Other
- Self-motivated, dedicated, and driven to succeed.
- Able to easily shift focus with changing priorities.
- Good debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- A passion for being part of a team, willing to self-assess in order to continually find better ways to do things.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Travel industry knowledge.
- Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
