Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

At SiteMinder we believe the individual contributions of our employees are what drive our success. That’s why we hire and encourage diverse teams that include and respect a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their unique selves to work and be proud of doing so. It’s in our differences that we will keep revolutionising the way for our customers. We are better together!

What We Do…

We’re people who love technology but know that hoteliers just want things to be simple. So since 2006 we’ve been constantly innovating our world-leading hotel commerce platform to help accommodation owners find and book more guests online - quickly and simply.

We’ve helped everyone from boutique hotels to big chains, enabling travellers to book igloos, cabins, castles, holiday parks, campsites, pubs, resorts, Airbnbs, and everything in between.

And today, we’re the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, supporting 50,000 hotels in 150+ countries - with over 130 million reservations processed by SiteMinder’s technology every year.

About Backend Software Engineer ...

In this role, you will help us build high-performance products that bridge the gap between guests and properties, taking the global guest experience to the next level. Our projects tackle complex backend challenges at scale, from engineering seamless, frictionless check-in flows to architecting robust, omni-channel messaging platforms. You will work with a passionate, distributed team, where you will have the autonomy to directly drive the innovation, reliability, and quality of our core solutions.

What you'll do...

• Refining and delivering product requirements with minimal support

• Collaborating with a cross-functional distributed team in an agile methodology

• Participating in release and sprint planning

• Writing clean, well organised code while making appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, and extensibility

• Leverage cutting-edge AI development tools to accelerate coding, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize your workflow

• Working closely with other developers through pair programming, reviewing pull requests, and contributing incremental improvements to code and practices

• Designing and maintaining infrastructure as code

What you have...

• Strong experience in backend development, with proficiency in Java/Kotlin (mandatory)

• Solid understanding of microservice and event-driven architectures and RESTful APIs

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including one or more of: EC2, Kinesis, SQS, ElastiCache, Lambda, SES, and S3

• Competence with database technologies, such as relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (DynamoDB/Cassandra/MongoDB)

• Familiarity with code testability, build pipelines, Docker, and CI/CD systems

• Ability and willingness to learn new frameworks and paradigms, backed by a strong natural curiosity

• Experience or strong interest in integrating AI coding assistants into your daily development practices

• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to liaise effectively with product, technology, and delivery teams to deliver high-quality software solutions

Our Perks & Benefits…

• Tenure bonus for you to be a part of the SiteMinder journey
• Hybrid working model from Tallinn
• Mental health and well-being initiatives
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Paid birthday, study and volunteering leave every year
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to help you connect and get involved
• Investment in your personal growth offering training for your advancement

Does this job sound like you? If yes, we'd love for you to be part of our team! Please send a copy of your resume and our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

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