C++ Developer - Airline Departure Control System

Job description

C++ Developer – Airline Departure Control System

Amadeus Job Title: Software Development Engineer

Company: Amadeus

Location: London, Heathrow Airport

Salary: Competitive

Closing date 7 September 2019

Additional Benefits: 28 days holiday, pension, healthcare, bonus, discount schemes, free car parking, amongst others

About You

We’re looking for a talented C++ Developer like you who shares our passion for creating innovative technology. You’ll be excited about using state-of-the-art technology, you’ll be hungry to unleash your creative thinking and business acumen to create tech that solves complex customer problems. You’ll want to join a global company that’s an industry leader and one that positively supports your career growth, developing you both personally & professionally.

About the Team and the Role

Have you ever wondered how your seat is assigned to you when you are flying with your favourite airline? Are you curious to know what it takes to be upgraded to a seat in business class at the airport?We have the job for you!

You will join the team that develops and maintains the software that handles the complex logic to allocate seats to passengers in the plane, that allows the customer to choose their seat and the airlines to charge for specific seats as well as how to optimize the occupation of the plane by on loading or changing a customer from a cabin to another.

You will use your strong knowledge and skills in software development to fuel the technical vision and future design of the Seating application and provide your support to the other developers in the team to implement these. You will work with the other team members to ensure delivery of high quality of the customer requirements, and with the application architects to decide the future challenges for the Seating application.

What you’ll be doing

· Contributes to the planning of major projects providing sizings and costing.
· Acts as a technical authority for the Seating application, working in partnership with clients.
· Propose, enforce and implement processes and development techniques to drive the team towards technical excellence.
· Delivers, including personally producing, comprehensive and high quality operational software and documentation necessary for the application.
· Applies knowledge and skills through handling of complex problems and/or coordinating work, which may extend beyond own area of expertise.
· Is a lead contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction for others.

You’ll have the following technical skills:

· Strong developer work experience
· Excellent knowledge of C++
· RDMS / SQL (Oracle preferred)
· STL/Design patterns
· Python or other scripting language knowledge
· Unix
· Java and Java Swing

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It’ll be a bonus if you have:

· Airline software experience
· Amadeus product knowledge

Who we are:

We are a recognized Top UK Employer for 2019 and the number one software provider for the travel industry. Our solutions connecttravelers tothe journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.We are 17,000 professionals from over 140 different nationalities with a global mindset and a local presence, wherever our customers need us. We help connect over 1.5 billion people a year to local travel providers in over 190 countries. Every second, our softwareprocesses 75,000+ transactions and boards 40 airline passengers.

Travel powers societal progress. The technology Amadeus creates powers travel. Join us and help us to shape the future of travel.

Our diversity commitment: equality, diversity and inclusion are part of who we are. We’re committed to equal opportunities and treatment regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, sexual orientation or disability.