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Software Engineer
Essentials
Job title: Software Engineer
Location: Bucharest, Hybrid
Type: employment contract
Technologies
Java / Perl/ Golang
Offer
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users.
Client
Our client is a new established Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business.
The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all our client brands. As part of our client’s Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands.
Role
A software developer owns the execution of technical elements in the tech stack, products, and processes.
They are responsible for the implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements, they can estimate the effort and impact of the items they work on and show a high quality of craft in what they deliver.
A developer understands the quality of test automation is as important as the production code and spends time refactoring to ensure ease of change enabling a sustainable pace of development.
Developers are expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritize and implement technical tasks. Because the required technical skills and commercial knowledge can vary from one business unit
to another, a developer can focus on multiple types of work from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling or services.
Responsibilities
Building software applications
Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area
Is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries
Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary
Is responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy
Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices
End to End System Ownership
Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs
Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production
Technical Incident Management
Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA
Is responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysis
Is responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to post-mortem processes and logging live issues
Architectural Guidance
Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets the functional, non-functional & Architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape
Has basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and decisions for varied stakeholder
Software Systems Design
Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by considering cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
Has sufficient knowledge to describe the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
Has sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering
techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standards
Has sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
Critical Thinking
Is responsible to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking
Is responsible to constructively evaluate and develop ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating ‘SMART’ improvements and articulating their rationale
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
Has sufficient knowledge to identify opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e.performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards.
Has sufficient knowledge to design and implement relevant improvements by defining adapted/new process flows, standards, and practices that enable business performance.
Effective Communication
Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
Is responsible to achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
Is responsible to ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection techniques
Requirements
3+ years of platform engineering experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or 3-5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent
Strong programming skills
Strong business and technical vision
A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of hands-on developing and shipping software
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful
Solution oriented and result driven
Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Analytical skills and data-driven mindset
Apply today
If you meet the minimum requirements and are interested in applying for this position, please send your details to careers@key-talents.com with “Software Engineer”, in the subject line.