Senior Software Engineer - Travelport

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel.

Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate. 

What does a great Senior Software Engineer do? 

There’s an awesome opportunity to materially impact how Travelport grows by helping us build our next generation air offer search platform. Air offer is a high throughput, low latency environment focused on providing travel agents with the best possible mix of content.

Great candidates will leverage prior experience scaling high performance software systems in a cost-efficient way to help make judicious tradeoffs, build systems, and mentor technical talent. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Design, implement, and support (1) high throughput, low latency applications, and (2) cloud-native operational platforms. 

• Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, consulting on major projects, and shaping Travelport technology strategy. 

Who we are looking for in this role: 

• Expertise building high throughput, low latency JVM applications. Prior experience in high transaction volume environments (e.g. high frequency trading (HFT) and ad tech) preferred. 

• Expertise building cloud-native platforms using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes to support operationalizing high volume applications in a cost efficient manner. 

• Extensive prior experience coaching software engineers in order to help grow the pool of software engineering talent. 

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:  

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work 

• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things 

• Take responsibility and own your work  

• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before 

Benefits of working at Travelport 

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, a competitive 401(k) match, as well as many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs. We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.  We also offer a New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8.

Salary Target/Range:  $140,000-$200,000