Nortal invites a Senior Back End Software Engineer to join our team for the client TUI – the subsidiary of a global tourism business giant! As a Senior Back End Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team or a practice team that enables software development skills and capabilities across a whole domain.

About our client

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. The search domain is a global team within TUI technology responsible for the sophisticated IT infrastructure and systems that enable comprehensive searching for holiday experiences and travel journeys for our customers. We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Agile Delivery providing services across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands.

At TUI we’re ambitious to become the leader in technology within the travel industry and to achieve this we are looking to build a capable, creative team who want to be a part of accomplishing that goal. We never stop looking ahead, seeking new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We recognise the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

About the project and responsibilities

Together with your team you will own the software products from conception to operation. Being an enthusiast in software engineering and software craftsmanship, with a strong DevSecOps mindset, and thanks to your excellent collaboration skills you will support your team in delivering the best answers to our customers’ needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation. With your advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems you are able to take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across your domain.

You will strive for a high degree of automation, clean architectures and high quality with a customer-centric mindset. You are able to select, and guide teams to use the right tools for the right job and thus solve the given business and technical problems in an efficient way. You show a commercial mentality, focusing on solving business problems in the best way. You will work in a cloud environment, especially AWS, and develop resilient and high-performing cloud-native applications. You have a deep understanding of the AWS toolbox, leveraging AWS services and cloud design patterns in a micro-service landscape. You can tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying software and contribute to increasing automation. You are able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes.

Together with the domain’s Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively. You are well-connected across the domain, within the broader TUI community and relevant Communities of Practice. You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level. You regularly coach, guide and develop more junior colleagues. You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas. Security is part of everyone’s job. At TUI, we practise secure behaviours first in everything we do.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Java and their respective eco-systems
• Experience with data persistence (SQL/noSQL)
• Deep experience with implementing resource-oriented APIs (REST, GraphQL) on client and server side
• Deep expertise in cloud design, infrastructure as code, tools and services on AWS
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization, preferably with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with serverless architectures and related technologies like AWS Lambda
• Familiarity with modern back-end caching mechanisms, such as Redis or Memcached
• Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Proficiency in writing and maintaining automated tests, with frameworks like JUnit, Mocha, or Jest
• Experience with performance tuning, monitoring, and system diagnostics.
• Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI
• Ability to design, build, test, and deploy applications
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
• Demonstrating true software craftsmanship mindset
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
• Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills
• Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous

Nortal Offers

• Benefit Café with various categories like sport, leisure, books etc.
• Family-like environment and personal attention to each specialist
• Interesting projects with innovative products
• Competitive salary and regular reviews
• The work-life balance you deserve. Flexible working hours
• Educational support, funded language classes
• Luxmed private healthcare packages
• Cozy workplace. Fresh fruits Mondays. WFH opportunities
• Exciting events and lovely gifts for your family