Company

Collinson

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence.

We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide. We deliver market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million end consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,300 lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special.

Purpose of the job

Collinsons’ Travel Experience division has an ambitious roadmap to deliver customer centric global solutions with consideration for regional difference.

The role of Senior Software Engineer is to design solutions that are aligned with user and client needs, as well as meeting business goals and KPIs.

You will join an engineering community focused on building out our platform capability. Our vision is to provide a core platform capability while empowering regional and client developments built on top of our travel ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the product and technology team on new and existing systems as required.
• Champion agile best practices and Continuous Delivery to drive down backlog.
• To design and develop pragmatic, complete and maintainable software solutions
• To sustain and improve the quality of the software and the documentation delivered by the team.
• To maintain a good technical awareness and familiarity with new and forthcoming relevant technologies and highlight any skills or training requirements within the team.
• To provide detailed planning input including estimated effort to develop certain functionality and to identify any specific technical or resource dependencies and/or risks the Software Engineer might be aware of.
• To contribute to and/or lead software analysis, design and specification tasks for specific functionality.
• To actively engage in and contribute to agile planning and design sessions.
• To provide competent, proactive and professional technical support if and when required to customers and clients.
• To support and initiate agile process improvements that will improve productivity, effectiveness and professionalism of the team as a whole.
• Maintain code documentation to company standards that accurately reflects system functionality and its technical implementations.
• Work as part of Code Peer Review community to improve the quality of software development
• Contribute to regular Project Team meetings to ensure the correct tasks are being worked on and share key decisions required, risks identified and highlight and issues encountered.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Minimum 8 years of experience
• Extensive experience in large scale enterprise software development with a global reach.
• Expert in creating simple solutions to complex problems.
• Proficient in multiple programing languages with deep knowledge in many of the following: Node.js, Rust, Java, Springboot, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kotlin, Go, Python.
• Experience in Relational and Document database like MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience in designing and building RESTful API services.
• Working knowledge of event driven framework like Kafka.
• Deep understanding of SOLID Principles, Design Patterns and working experience of putting them to practice.
• Demonstratable experience of Test Driven Development, unit testing tools, and experience of integration testing and continuous integration / deployment.
• Experience in automation test tools and frameworks like Serenity, Cucumber, Jest, Supertest, Playwright, Detox etc.
• Working knowledge of cloud deployment and technologies, including AWS and Terraform.
• Experience in native mobile app development is a plus.
• Experience of working with PCI compliant software products is desirable.
• Experience of working across multiple delivery organisations practising distributed development in a global environment.

• Self-motivator with a willingness to learn new skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast moving and changing environment
• Ability to show initiative and to work independently
• Ability to work at pace, work through project challenges in a collegiate way
• Goal and outcome orientated
• Thoroughness and attention to detail
• Good communication skills (ability to present, inform and guide others)
• Ability to generate ideas and draw them out of others
• Ability to bridge communications between technical and business focused groups
• Willingness to take on a variety of roles and responsibilities