Software Development Engineer I at 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 Software Development Engineer do?

This role within Travelport will allow you to collaborate with a focused team of experienced development engineers, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Travelport Air Search technologies. Air Search is a suite of applications that deliver the most compelling Air Offer solutions to our customers. These applications are in High Performance Compute grids and are commonly referred to as the engine for Travelport.   

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in an Agile team and scrum ceremonies.

• Design, develop, modify, test, and implement new and existing creative and responsive Air Search solutions.

• Perform code reviews to improve code quality and enforce unit testing, writing secure code with no performance issues.

• Constantly research and identify new development technologies/trends to drive innovation, quality, and a fresh outlook

• Collaborate with an internationally distributed team with members representing Customer Experience, Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Product Owners, Information Security, and outside vendors.

• Support and contribute to DevOps activities like create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build and deploy client installers and services onto various environments, etc.

• Contributes to the design, development, and implementation of technical processes, procedures, and engineering best practices.

• Working with architecture and product management to identity the optimal technical approach and contribute to the full solution design. 

• Deliver high quality code and optimized solutions on time and to specification.

• Coach and mentor peers within the development community in Travelport.  

• Support the production system and be available to resolve customer incident escalations in an “always on” global travel industry.

Who we are looking for in this role:

• 2+ Experience with software development using C, Prolog or other lower-level programming language.

• Deep understanding of recursive functions.

• Familiarity with all phases of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

• Familiarity with algorithms and their space/ time complexity.

• Experience writing high performing applications.

• Familiarity with different kinds of data structures and their implementation. Those include but not limited to stack, heap, tree, priority queue, hash map etc.

• Familiarity with various searching and sorting algorithms and their implementation.

• Familiarity with first order / predicate logic and horn clauses

• Familiarity with memory management in C and tools like, valgrind. 

• Preferred: Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science. 

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 on time

• 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: $70,000-$100,000