Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)
Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers. The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia has company-owned leisure and corporate travel business in 23 countries, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. FCTG also operates a global corporate travel management network, which extends to more than 90 countries through company-owned businesses and independent licensees. The company opened its first leisure travel shop in Sydney, Australia in 1982 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1995. Our purpose is to “open up the world for those who want to see”. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something really amazing – travel!
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About The Opportunity
Flight Centre Travel Group is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer.
In this role you will be part of the core team involved in a wide variety of software engineering tasks to develop the company’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. We are looking for an experienced member of the team who will be ready to take control over end-to-end software development process in Go language with emphasis on DevOps.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in developing technical solutions in CRM and using available APIs for external integrations. This will include the evaluation of new and existing use cases, system integration approach and maintenance, design and customization fit-for-purpose, and end-user adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, Analyze and Document requirements in Atlassian Confluence
- Design and Document and Prototype solutions and components
- Create detailed visualizations using diagram as code tools like (PlantUML, Diagrams) and Miro
- Develop and optimize high-performance server-side software (Go, Node.js, TypeScript)
- Create extensive software test kits with unit tests and behavior driven tests
- Debug, trace and monitor end to end message flows
- Use OLTP database like DynamoDB for transactional data
- Develop using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce CRM APIs for data processing
- Integrate monitoring solutions from New Relic, AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, etc
- Maintain AWS infrastructure components through use of AWS CDK with TypeScript
- Build, Test and Deploy software with use of GitHub Actions
- Transform data for ingestion into Azure Data Lake and Power BI platform
- Self-disciplined and comfortable working in a remote environment
- Collaborate with remote team members in different time zones (EST, PST, AEST)
- Support solutions developed and maintained by the team to maintain high level of uptime
Experience & Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience on professional software development projects
- Minimum 3+ years programming production deployed software written in Go language
- Familiarity with common web services protocols
- Understanding use cases of service side caching
- Understanding of common web security problems and solutions to secure applications
- Knowledge of scripting languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python)
- Tenacious analytical and problem-solving skills
- Understanding of CRM concepts
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and PostgreSQL specifically
- Familiar with basics of front-end development for administrative interfaces
- In-depth understanding of multithreading, co-routines and streams
- Experience with AWS Stack: Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, Fargate, ALB, VPC, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka
- Experience working with Docker (or other container technologies)
- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 flows including Client and Server development
- Experience integrating with identity provides providers like Okta via SAML flows
- Good working knowledge of Linux OS
- Familiar with shell scripting and command line tools
- Experience of using distributed version control tools such as git
Work Perks! - What’s in it for you:
FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture. We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.
- Have fun: At the heart of everything we do at Flight Centre is a desire to have fun.
- Reward & Recognition: Celebrate the success of yourself and others at our regular Buzz Nights and at the annual Global Gathering - You'll have to experience it to believe it!
- Use your smarts: Our people use their quick thinking, expertise, and tenacity to always figure things out.
- Love for travel: We were founded by people who wanted to travel and want others to do the same. That passion is something you can’t miss in our people or service.
- Personal connections: We are a big business founded on personal relationships.
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Diversity Day: paid leave to observe holiday or cultural celebration of your choice
- Employee Resource Groups (Racial Equity, Gender Equity, LGBTQ2IA+, Accessibility, Environmental Justice)
- DEI education
- Commitment to fair practices such as regular equity assessments and inclusive recruitment protocols
- A career, not a job: We offer genuine opportunities for people to grow and evolve
- We back our people all the way: We are strongly committed to supporting every single employee in their professional and personal development.
- Giving Back: Proud Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising
- Employee giving program
- Office Environmental Program
- Many of our offices are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold certified buildings
- 1 Volunteer Day per Calendar Year
Benefits Include:
- Generous paid time off policy
- Travel perks/discounts
- Health & Wellness Programs and Employee Financial Wellness Services
- National/International Award Nights and Conferences
- Group benefits including extended health care, dental and vision, gender affirming care, fertility care
- Insurance including life, AD&D, critical illness, long term disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- RRSP/RPP with matching
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Employee Share Plan – Ability to purchase company stock on Australian Stock Exchange with partial company match, subject to terms and conditions
- Global career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses
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Location – Vancouver, Canada
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for then APPLY NOW.
For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of $113,000- $130,000. Base salary is dependent on relevant factors, including experience, geographic location, and job requirements.
We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
Our number one philosophy? Our people. Flight Centre Travel Group’s promise is to provide an environment with equality of respect, dignity and opportunity for all our employees. We value an inclusive and supportive workplace which truly reflects the diversity of our society.
We are committed to providing a barrier-free pathway throughout our recruitment process. We welcome accommodation requests to make our hiring and onboarding experience as accessible as possible. Please advise us about accommodation needs at any point by contacting our Recruitment Team at fccareers@flightcentre.ca
