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Choice Hotels Software Engineer 3 (Hybrid) in Scottsdale, Arizona
Who are we looking for?
Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Software Engineer III in the Revenue Management team. The Revenue Management is the team that deals with a payment portfolio of applications and managing the rates and inventory of certain hotel brands. As a key member of our team, you will analyze, design, code, implement, support, enhance and debug an enterprise-level system component and is considered the subject matter expert on a systems functionality, behavior, and capabilities.
Are you a self-driven hard-working person who enjoys technology and building software? We invite you to apply today for our Software Engineer 3 role today and #MakeItYourChoice.
Your Responsibilities
Technical Specifications: Serves as a software engineer for supporting/enhancing enterprise systems software component additions and modifications.
Coding: Serves as the software engineer during the coding phase of the development cycle.
Quality Assurance (QA) Testing: Collaborates with the software engineering test teams during the quality assurance phase of the development cycle.
Production Release: Serves as primary support before, during and after the systems Production rollout.
Operation support: Work with operations team to resolve major incidents including on-call support.
Site Reliability: Improve service resiliency and performance of the production infrastructure.
Utilities: Actively involved in the selection and/or creation of tools for design, modeling, programming, debugging, testing, diagnostics, monitoring, profiling, operations, logging, reporting, security checking, or analysis.
Management: Participates in third-party system analysis to identify potential implementations and integrations.
Education: Keeps up on industry trends and current technological standards, languages, coding techniques, utilities, and operational considerations.
Role
The Go-to expert for assigned areas of the codebase; understands the broad architecture of the entire system.
Thinks at the enterprise level for reliability, scalability, maintainability, extensibility, portability, and security.
Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact other systems or the company at large. Researches and proposes new technologies.
Scopes and stages work into well-defined milestones to avoid a monolithic deliverable.
Regularly delivers software on-time and is constantly working to make accurate estimates and deliver on those estimates.
Owns the technical testing and performance plan for their project work.
Takes initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues
Identifies and proactively tackles technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant up-front work to resolve
Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems affecting their team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions
Makes others better through code pull reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring or serving as a Tech Lead on a project.
Your Experience, Skills & Competencies
· Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field, from a four-year college or university, or related experience and/or training.
· A minimum of 5 years relevant experience in software development, information systems, or equivalent technical environment, including previous experience in the development of highly transactional, mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multi-user systems.
· Hands on experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle: design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support.
· Strong knowledge of agile software development methodologies, Service Oriented Architecture, and object-oriented programming methodologies.
Required Skills
Strong proficiency with the following technologies:
Java
ReactJS
Spring or similar MVC framework
Unix/Linux
Service oriented designs and technologies (AJAX, XML/JSON)
Web service protocols, such as SOAP or REST
SQL, Relational DBMS – Oracle, SQL, or others
Servers – Tomcat, WebLogic, or others
Source control tools such as Subversion or GIT
Strong verbal, written and listening communication skills
Preferred Skills
Experience with DevOps configuration and support, using technologies such as Jenkins
Micro service architecture
Knowledge of hospitality industry
Relevant industry certification, such as Oracle Java Developer
Experience working on Amazon EC2
Messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka
Your Team
This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Manager, Software Engineering. You will have 5 peer teammates and collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.
Your Work Location
As our Software Engineer III, you will be based in our beautiful, state-of-the-art technology hub in Scottsdale, Arizona. In October 2021, Choice opened a newly constructed world class technology center.
Right now, our associates in Scottsdale, AZ are working in a hybrid environment, between two-four days per week in the office and working virtually the remaining days. We provide flexibility and encourage ongoing communication with your leadership to establish expectations about your unique needs.
About Choice
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,500 hotels, representing nearly 630,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories as of September 30, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay, and economy segments.
The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members a faster way to rewards, with personalized benefits starting on day one. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.
At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, MD and St. Louis Park, MN as well as our technology center in Scottsdale, AZ, and through our associates around the globe, we keep Choice Hotels thriving by serving as a champion for our franchisees and providing cutting-edge technology.
About Choice Hotels Financial Performance
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) for first quarter 2024 grew to $124.3 million, a first quarter record and a 17% increase compared to the same period of 2023. Please click here (https://investor.choicehotels.com/news/news-details/2024/Choice-Hotels-International-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx) to review highlights of our first quarter 2024 results.
Ability to model Choice’s Cultural Values: Welcome and Respect Everyone, Be Bold, Be Quick, Listen, Be Curious and Show Integrity.
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Visit http://careers.choicehotels.com to learn more.