Software Development Engineer

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

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Do you have a passion for travel and tech? And want to work for an exciting company that’s at the top of their industry?

Business travel is back and we’re looking for talented individuals to join a team that’s working hard to reinvent the industry and make those real-life connections truly seamless once again.

Who Are We?

Egencia is the original category disruptor and the world’s leading B2B SaaS business in travel. Driven by curiosity and backed by industry leading data and customer insights, we’re a trusted business travel partner that delivers the best technology and experiences - no matter the odds.

With the support of our partners and travel consultants, and now with the powerful backing of Amex GBT, we deliver unrivalled value, while helping companies in over 60 markets meet sustainability goals and prioritize the wellbeing of their travelers. And we need people like you.

At Egencia, we are rewriting the book on how companies and their employees arrange travel. As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.

We are looking for a talented java software development engineer who is passionate about new technologies and has a real desire to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. You will be joining the team in charge of our global air platform at an exciting time with an ambitious roadmap to help Egencia consolidate its position as a major player in the business travel.

What will you do

• Contribute to new features from inception to production, working across the company with product managers, UX designers and other teams in an agile environment.

• Deliver tested and optimized high performance code.

• Analyse customers’ feedback and identify opportunities for enhancing the customers experience.

• Contribute to the production duties for the services owned by your team: Monitoring, Release Management, On Call.

• Contribute to our inner-source culture (Internal Open Source) by delivering high quality code that levels up not only your team but the entire organization.

• Opportunity to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences.

Who you are

• You are convinced that testing is coding.

• You can drive the technical implementation of projects at various scales, from small to larger projects spanning over several of months.

• You are passionate about reviewing your work and other’s.

• You want to define and improve microservice systems in production that are used daily by real customers.

• You have learned that you build better software in a team that practices agile methodologies.

• You enjoy dealing with complexity in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment.

• You embrace the DevOps approach as you believe dev teams should be responsible for deploying and monitoring their applications with tools such as Kibana, Datadog, Github, Hubot etc…

• You cannot work without a good CI/CD pipeline based on Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, Selenium, JUnit, Wiremock, Mockito, Git

Technologies we use: Java, Amazon Web Services, SpringBoot, Kotlin, React.js, REST, Cucumber, Selenium, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, Kibana, Datadog.

Why Join Egencia?

Connections matter when it comes to business, and those connections start with our inclusive team of travel enthusiasts and technologists.

Our customers love working with us because we know satisfied customers start with a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team to support them. So, we’re committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. We make sure every voice is heard. We trust each other to get great work and we encourage everyone to speak up, speak out, and be themselves.

Our Culture

We thrive in a culture of curiosity - constantly reinventing for the future. It's the people that make Egencia so special, so we want to make sure they’re happy. We do this by offering flexible working opportunities, competitive packages and by making sure we have fun along the way.

Business travel is on the road to recovery, and as part of the world’s largest corporate travel marketplace, we’re in a strong position to define the future of business travel as we lead the industry into a new era.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Egencia is wholly owned by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). GBT is a joint venture that is not wholly owned by American Express Company or any of its subsidiaries (American Express). “American Express Global Business Travel”, “American Express", and the American Express logo are trademarks of American Express and are used under limited license. “American Express Meetings & Events” is a division of GBT.

Location

Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.
• And much more!

This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.

What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!