** This role is not eligible for sponsorship AND is four days onsite hybrid at our N. Scottsdale office **
Your Responsibilities
- Design, write, and maintain software to improve the security, availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of choicehotels.com and related services, incorporating cloud and open-source tools when available and writing software of your own when nothing else fits the bill.
- Develop and deploy automated solutions to secure cloud development processes.
- Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, anticipating performance bottlenecks and provisioning capacity, as necessary.
- Participate in software performance analysis and system tuning.
- Monitoring and alerting for various components across our infrastructure.
- Participate in rotating on-call duties, including after-hours/weekends on occasion.
- Consistently delivers software on-time and is constantly working to make accurate estimates and deliver those estimates.
- Takes initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues.
- Identifies and proactively refactors technical debt before it grows into debt that requires significant work to resolve.
- Keeps up on industry trends and current technological standards, languages, coding techniques, utilities, and operational considerations.
- Able to enjoy and have fun in an exciting technology-driven software development culture!
Your Experience, Skills & Competencies
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related discipline.
- Minimum of 2 years of progressive experience in software development, including previous experience in the development of highly transactional, mission critical websites, integrated with large-scale enterprise systems.
- Knowledge of agile software development methodologies, Service Oriented Architecture, and object-oriented programming methodologies.
- Proficient in software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Solid developer within the following technologies:
- Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JMS
- Web service protocols, such as SOAP or REST
- Knowledge of network, routing, and web related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS)
- Experienced in secure coding practices
- Have a clear understanding of encryption/decryption methods, authentication, and common IP/application attacks.
- Good understanding of information security principles and best practices.
- Experienced in identifying and resolving security issues such as SQLi, XSS, CSRF, and business logic flaws across large code bases
Other Preferred Experience
- React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, XSL
- Familiarity with the OWASP Top Ten and CWE Top 25
- Web analytics tools (Omniture, App Dynamics, Google Analytics)
- Familiarity with build and CI tools such as Maven, Gradle, Jenkins and Sonar
- Knowledge of Akamai CDN and Bot Manager
- Exceptional analytical skills.
- Exceptional verbal, written and listening communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization and decision-making skills
Your Team
This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Sr. Manager 6 Software Engineering, Digital Experience. You will work as part of the Digital Experience API teamand collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.
Choice prioritizes our associate wellbeing by offering a comprehensive benefits program that is both competitive and flexible to help you achieve your wellbeing goals - here are just a few:
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance
- Financial benefits for retirement and health savings
- Employee recognition programs
- Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide
