Senior Java Developer

What is the project, and why should you care?

Datalex is a market leader in digital commerce for travel retailers. The Datalex Digital Commerce Platform provides airlines with a unique solution that allows them to significantly leverage and increase the range and scale of products and services they can offer to passengers. The platform enables an omni-channel travel marketplace of over one billion shoppers covering every corner of the globe, driven by some of the world’s most innovative airline retail brands. Datalex’s customers include Lufthansa Group, Air China, JetBlue Airways, Hainan Group, SAS, Swiss International Air Lines, Philippine Airlines, Aer Lingus, Copa Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Air Transat, Air Malta, HP Enterprise Services and STA Travel. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the USA, and China. Datalex is a publicly listed company and is listed on Euronext Dublin (DLE). 

As a Software Development Senior Engineer, you will be working in one of our full-stack engineering teams. Transforming our platform to be software as a service, developing the next-gen SAAS marketplace for airlines. Adding capabilities to our existing suite for customers like Aer Lingus, JetBlue, Air China, and Transat to name but a few.

You will be an excellent fit for this position if you have:

Essential: 

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Java development, Web Services, and object-orientated principles.  Highly proficient knowledge of Java
• Excellent understanding of software development practices and have worked in multi-disciplined teams before
• Solid experience in the development of highly available and scalable applications.
• Ability to work independently and also as part of a team
• Ability to learn independently
• Airline / Travel GDS or PSS experience using any ONE of the following is essential for this role: Sabre, Amadeus, SITA, Travelport, Galileo, Worldspan, Apollo, Abacus, Pegasus, TravelSky, Radixx, Navitaire or a bespoke airline PSS /backend systems where you can demonstrate strong knowledge of PNR’s and complex flight bookings systems

Desirable: 

• Degree in Computing or Science
• A good understanding of Agile principles whilst working with Scrum Teams
• Spring, J2EE, Memcached, REST, SOAP, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, React, JavaScript
• Practical experience with databases such as Oracle, Document DB, and Mongo DB
• Jenkins with a strong focus on pipelines and dev ops (SALT)
• Atlassian suite of products bitbucket/Jira/Confluence

Here are some of the things you’ll be working on:

• Technically hands-on providing estimates, designing, coding, and debugging alongside the team
• Providing third-line engineering support to our customers
• Mentoring Junior members of the team
• Working as part of an Agile environment
• Working closely with our quality and performance engineers