Fronted Developer

Job description

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Purpose of the Role

Amadeus is hiring a frontend developer to work on the next generation website for of one of the world’s largest airlines. This is an opportunity to work on a new project and to create a website that will have a huge customer impact.

Are you interested in building website used by milions of people? Do you like working with new technologies and shipping code at a rapid pace? Amadeus is seeking a frontend developer that is passionate about building responsive web applications. The good candidate will be autonomous, eager to learn and motivated in joining a high-performing and experienced SCRUM Team to assist Avianca in their digital transformation. This position is full-time and is based in our Bogota office.

Business environment:
1) The Digital for Airlines (DGA) department is part of the Amadeus Digital division and is in charge of delivering e-Commerce services around Amadeus products. DGA recently has launched a massive project to modernize the e-Commerce solutions of Amadeus. As an alternative to the current solutions based on e-Retail product, we now propose a REST/JSON API (called Digital Experience API) that provides an airline with the access to Amadeus e-Commerce business logic, enabling airlines to develop custom applications for their digital touchpoints (e.g. web, mobile, Internet of Things, smart devices).
2) On top of this API, we propose a developer toolkit to develop the UI components in Angular. The developer toolkit or devtoolkit provides a default frontend model and utilities that can be reused throughout any applications of an airline.
3) Thanks to this ecosystem, developers are able to deliver to an airline a full booking application via a CMS (airline's CMS or Amadeus') and publish a website in production.

Responsibilities

· Design the global website system and code to develop new UIs
· Test and maintain the software
· Ensure a proper documentation for all deliverables
· Remain up-to-date on the new web technologies, propose innovative and disruptive solutions
· Meet with the customer and analyze technical requirements
· Provide coding expertise and functional/technical support to the software development team from the airlines and third party

Experience

· Minimum 2 to 3 years of experience minimum in frontend development using latest technologies (e.g. Angular, Typescript, Redux)
· Knowledge of Amadeus e-Retail and Altea suite (e.g. shopping, payment/ticketing, ancillary services, Digital API) is a plus.
· Experience in working at the customer premises is a plus.

Education

Masters or Bachelor of science preferably in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Languages

Spanish and English fluency required

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