Software Development Engineer - Java eCommerce

Job description

Shaping the future of travel is important to us at Amadeus. Today, with technology getting smarter by the minute, that future is more exciting than ever.

Our business success relies on our people being always passionate about what we do. We believe in aiming for excellence, taking responsibility, working together and putting our customers first.

We encourage you to be part of new and exciting projects and for you to take the lead when it comes to your progression.

Since mobility allows you and Amadeus to grow, we always look internally first when searching for candidate.

Do you fancy working for a technology company that was voted Red Hat innovator of the year in 2016 and in 2014, 2015 and 2016 was the leading European investor in R&D for the travel and tourism sector?

Closing Date: 31/05/17

Business environment

Amadeus e-Retail is the world's most widely used Internet Booking Engine (IBE) in the airline industry.
Its award-winning user interface offers the best-in-class customer experience and helps airlines deliver all types of travel search and booking services: flights, car rental, hotels and insurance. Amadeus e-Retail powers more than 260 airline.com websites for over 100 airlines in more than 110 countries around the world.

In the Digital division, we work on the full technical and functional stack of the digital products for airlines. This includes a Booking Engine J2EE layer in charge of booking orchestration and business logic, and the web layer forming the user interface (e-retail DX).

Working entirely in Agile with the Scrum methodology and in close collaboration with other R&D teams globally, the London e-commerce teams participate in a wide range of new features for our digital products. The teams also play an active role in spurring innovation ideas and prototypes.

Purpose

Join the London Digital teams as a software engineer and shape the future of travel. We constantly add new features to our digital product line allowing our airline customers to stay at the forefront of innovation in the Digital space. Working entirely in Agile, you will be part of a Scrum team that contributes to the full stack (Java and web). You will need to analyze user needs and design, code, test, debug, and document software solution with a highly creative mindset. This role is primarily opened for contributing to our J2EE application stack. Depending your skills and aspirations as well as project demands, you can have the opportunity to contribute to the web stack as well (User Interface development in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript).

Requirements

You will have:

· A degree in Computer Science, or equivalent, or other significant industry experience
· Java knowledge
· J2EE knowledge (Weblogic server, Spring or Struts frameworks) is a plus
· Optional: web technologies (Advanced JavaScript, CSS, HTML)
· User Interface development, MVC knowledge, Experience in Responsive Design is a plus
· We believe in aiming for excellence, taking responsibility, working together and putting our customers first. We need you to display these qualities.
· Good interpersonal skills – you will be dealing with internal stakeholders to communicate on requirements, design, usability and review design decisions on a regular basis

It would be desirable, but not essential, if you have:

· SCM knowledge, preferably Git/Bitbucket
· Knowledge of distributed systems/service oriented architectures

Rewards:

In return we will offer you:

· A chance to work on software engineering problems that are unique to large scale, mission critical applications
· A competitive salary
· Company bonus (9% target)
· Flexible / home working
· A friendly, supportive office environment.
· 28 days leave, increasing to 29 after 3 years and 30 after 5 years
· Pension plan (8% company contribution)
· Life assurance
· Private medical insurance, company sickness benefit, permanent health insurance, eye care vouchers, employee wellbeing program
· Optional benefits: dental cover, childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme
· Access to an online rewards gateway providing discounts at leading UK retailers

Shaping the future of travel is important to us at Amadeus. Today, with technology getting smarter by the minute, that future is more exciting than ever.

If you would like to join us, click below.

The posting of vacancies and the treatment of applications are, in each Amadeus location, subject to national law and possible collective agreements with local staff representation. Internal Mobility policies vary from office to office, please check with your local HR representative the requirements and policy in place. E.g. a minimum time on position or Line Manager approval may be requested.