Principal Software Engineer | Englewood, CO USA

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture.

What's 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 Principal Software Engineer do?

You're a seasoned back-end developer who thrives on the latest tech. You've got a solid grasp on service-oriented architecture and object-oriented design, making you a pro at designing and deploying features using XML and JSON Java web services. When it comes to cloud technologies like AWS and Azure, you're all about optimizing performance while keeping costs down. Your experience in the travel industry means you're a wizard at translating complex customer needs into smooth, high-performance software solutions. You're quick to grasp new ideas, setting the technical direction, establishing best practices, and confidently sharing your tech insights with senior leadership. Plus, you're a natural mentor, always ready to help your team grow and advance in their careers. You tackle your work with dynamism and self-motivation, bringing energy and enthusiasm to every project. Your approach is lean and agile, always ready to adapt and excel in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Drive overall architecture design to be performant, scalable, maintainable, and operationally cost efficient.
• Leverage Tomcat, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure OpenShift platforms in your designs.
• Focus on relentless performance measurement and tuning activities to meet system capacity needs.
• Set direction and improvement of Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
• Mentor our engineers and leads in whiteboard sessions, code reviews, and pair programming.

Who we are looking for in this role:

• You will be a significant contributor to Travelport's Shopping space by:
  • Setting the technical vision and roadmap to ensure applications are modern and cost-efficient.
  • Architecting, designing, and implementing stable, performant, scalable, and maintainable backend SOAP and REST services helping Travelport to reduce operational costs.
  • Reducing time to market and shifting quality left through development of CI/CD workflows using Git Actions.
  • Leading and mentoring a large engineering team to thrive and grow in a challenging and nurturing environment.
  • Delivering major initiatives that are mission-critical to the organization.
  • Trailblazing for the organization and the industry into modern technologies and strategies.

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you are 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 has 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: $165,000-$170,000

The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training.

Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch!

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.