Sr. Software Engineer

at  Virtuoso Ltd

Virtuoso® is the leading global travel agency network specializing in luxury and experiential travel. This by-invitation-only organization comprises over 1,200 travel agency locations with more than 20,000 travel advisors in 54 countries throughout North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Drawing upon its preferred relationships with more than 2,300 of the world’s best hotels and resorts, cruise lines, airlines, tour companies and premier destinations, the network provides its upscale clientele with exclusive amenities, rare experiences and privileged access. Normalized annual sales of (U.S.) $28-$32 billion make Virtuoso a powerhouse in the luxury travel industry. For more information, visit www.virtuoso.com.
The Senior Software Engineer at Virtuoso applies their skills and talent to build scalable and sustainable solutions, utilizing best engineering practices and the latest Cloud technologies in an agile, team-oriented and collaborative environment. They build and support amazing customer experiences while meeting the needs of the business. The successful Senior Software Engineer must stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, demonstrating continuous learning and innovation. This role works collaboratively with Product Managers, Engineers, Program Managers and stakeholders to deliver our successful products.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and computer science fundamentals, combining them with product understanding to design, document and implement clean and robust solutions for business problems.
• Deliver on engineering commitments while demonstrating a bias for action and flexibility to evolving product needs.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams as well as program and product managers to define and implement technical solutions.
• Work closely with your peers, mentor junior developers and help the team achieve its goals.
• Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing and automation while finding opportunities to continuously improve them.
• Participate in design and code reviews, ensuring the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• May specialize in one or more areas of development, including full-stack, user interface, databases, or services.

EDUCATIONAL AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of related work experience
• Experienced with N-tier applications utilizing modern web frameworks (Azure, Bicep, ASP.NET, Service Bus, VueJS / Angular / React)
• Experience with distributed systems and/or experience building event driven systems
• Experience with test automation, instrumentation, debugging
• Experience leading the technical design of new features
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Familiarity with Agile Development focused mainly as an individual contributor
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, and decision-making skills
• Be able to juggle multiple tasks and fulfill ad-hoc requests based on priority
• Be an individual contributor who is also comfortable working in a team
• Forward thinking, curious, and creative
• Able to mentor other engineers and lead projects
• Able to influence design and architecture across roles and teams
• Able to collect and analyze complex information, problem solve, and make decisions
• Strong skills in inspiring the win-win-win
• Ability to work independently

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel is rarely required for this position (0-1 trips per year).
• Any travel will be entirely domestic.

• Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and computer science fundamentals, combining them with product understanding to design, document and implement clean and robust solutions for business problems.
• Deliver on engineering commitments while demonstrating a bias for action and flexibility to evolving product needs.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams as well as program and product managers to define and implement technical solutions.
• Work closely with your peers, mentor junior developers and help the team achieve its goals.
• Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing and automation while finding opportunities to continuously improve them.
• Participate in design and code reviews, ensuring the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• May specialize in one or more areas of development, including full-stack, user interface, databases, or services