Senior Software Development Engineer I

at  Travelport

OUR AMBITION IS TO HIRE FOR POTENTIAL NOT JUST EXPERIENCE, AND YOU’RE LIKELY TO SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Are proactive, a self-starter and thrive on challenge
• Value quality highly and take great pride and ownership in your work and that of your team
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before
• Possess a growth mindset and see failure as a learning opportunity

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working in an Agile environment and collaborating with teams
• Develop, modify, and enhance creative and responsive client-side web applications
• Build and implement feature & function-rich enterprise level websites
• Writing new and highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS via common UI Frameworks, with an emphasis towards React to support our responsive applications front end.
• Constantly research & identify new web technologies/trends to drive innovation, quality, and a fresh outlook
• Provide suggestions for improvement, betterment of the product from both technical and functional standpoints.
• Working with lead developers, architecture and product management to identity the optimal technical approach and contribute to the full solution design
• Work closely with designers throughout the design process - identify technical constraints, take part in design reviews, prototype solutions etc.
• Demo work regularly and communicate with the team
• Collaborate with UI developers across other product teams
• Develop and execute unit and end-to-end tests
• Ensure components meet accessibility, internationalization, and localization requirements
• Coach and guide your peers within the team

WHAT WE LOOK FOR/WHO WOULD PROSPER IN THIS ROLE?

• Understanding and experience of all phases of the SDLC and experienced in working in a test-driven agile development environment.
• 5+ years’ experience in web front-end development is required
• 3+ years’ experience in any modern JavaScript Framework (React, Angular, VueJs), Jest, Babel, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3 required, and a willingness to focus on React as the framework of choice
• Experienced with state managements tools i.e Redux, React Context API
• Working knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• A strong understanding of common JavaScript design patterns and concepts such as scope, closures, and prototypal inheritance and overall architectural patterns for web apps
• CI/CD strategies & technologies (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure pipelines) and experience deploying Web applications into cloud environments
• Good understanding about https protocol and security capabilities for web applications.
• Experience integrating web apps with RESTful APIs.
• Familiar with unit testing JavaScript (ideally react-testing-library) and integration test frameworks.
• Nice to have: experience with modern front-end tooling, including CSS pre-processors, build tools (e.g. Webpack, Gulp), testing frameworks, transpilers and module loaders
• Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance.
• Experience with facilitating code and technical review processes (merge request, pair programming)
• Has ability to take clear and efficient decisions and bridge gaps between product and dev team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English