Software Development Engineer I
American Express Global Business Travel
Chicago, Illinois
Job Description
The Egencia Homepage team is seeking a Software Engineer to join our experienced team to build and evolve the home page of our product! Users land upon this experience after logging in and is a key opportunity to surface relevant information for their awareness as well as use our data to make the user’s intended task more efficient and effortless. This team also owns our travel advisory offering, which assists clients and travelers when navigating through the complexities of governments' travel advisories. The Homepage team’s scope of work spans front-end development through back-end services to their databases. We are looking for someone passionate about technology to apply best-in-class practices, creative problem-solving, and innovative thinking to our business problems!
Launched in 2002 as Expedia Corporate Travel, Egencia has become the world’s leading digital corporate travel platform because of our commitment to delivering a higher standard of corporate travel service and innovative technology. Our success is directly attributed to our customers' ability to move their businesses ahead, through their valued relationships with our company and more importantly, with our people. Lead by an experienced, forward-thinking management team, Egencia has continued to expand its offering of intuitive online tools and comprehensive agency services while maintaining its reputation for superior customer service.
What you’ll do:
- Build relationships with and collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
- Build up your technical expertise in a specific engineering area.
- Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features involved in the integration process.
- Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, optimized, tested, maintainable, and operable.
- Grow expertise in database design to address data requirements.
- Collaborate with partner roles like Product, Design, and Analytics to apply good business judgment to refine requirements so that they best address customer needs.
- Apply formal training methods to the current workload and feel comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.
- Use and improve CI/CD pipelines to deploy your work and deliver value to the end-users.
- Report clearly on current work status. Ask challenging questions when empowered to do so.
Who you are:
- 1+ years of industry software development experience in a team environment
- Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
- Experience crafting performant web applications using Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, and/or Spring including making application changes.
- Moderate strength in at least one programming language.
- Familiarity in a couple of data stores or API access patterns and integration.
- Understands how crafted functions fit into team projects.
- Understanding of testing and monitoring tools and how to apply them to code.
- Ability to debug applications.
- Basic understanding of how the team's goals fit a business need.
Why Join Egencia?
Connections matter when it comes to business, and those connections start with our inclusive team of travel enthusiasts and technologists.
Our customers love working with us because we know satisfied customers start with a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team to support them. So, we’re committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. We make sure every voice is heard. We trust each other to get great work and we encourage everyone to speak up, speak out, and be themselves.
Our culture
We thrive in a culture of curiosity - constantly reinventing for the future. It's the people that make Egencia so special, so we want to make sure they’re happy. We do this by offering flexible working opportunities, competitive packages and by making sure we have fun along the way.
Business travel is on the road to recovery, and as part of the world’s largest corporate travel marketplace, we’re in a strong position to define the future of business travel as we lead the industry into a new era.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
If this all sounds like something you’d like to jump on-board with visit Egencia.com or check us out on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Egencia is wholly owned by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). GBT is a joint venture that is not wholly owned by American Express Company or any of its subsidiaries (American Express). “American Express Global Business Travel”, “American Express", and the American Express logo are trademarks of American Express and are used under limited license. “American Express Meetings & Events” is a division of GBT.
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