Software Engineer - Booking - Costco Travel

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. In 2018, Costco contributed over $39 million to organizations such as United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the second largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco consistently ranks in the top five of Forbes “America’s Best Employers”.

As a Software Engineer for Costco Travel your role will be the technical lead for one or more teams. This role requires deep technical expertise, domain proficiency, platform depth, and leadership. The individual in this role will coach and mentor engineers and developers to help them progress their technical knowledge and careers. Typical activities include leading requirements analysis, solution design, technical development, and process improvement coupled with the ability to drive efforts and solution improvements effectively.

If you want to be a part of one of the BEST “to work for” companies in the world, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Initiates and facilitates team meetings to socialize technical ideas; encourages a culture of technical excellence within the organization and identifies opportunities for adopting innovation .
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with team members.
• Demonstrates technical leadership to manage and provide multiple technical solutions; performs code reviews; establishes and enforces coding guidelines and best practices.
• Ensures solutions are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible; and proactively mitigates against production support issues.
• Manages concurrent projects and multiple competing priorities.
• Leads and collaborates in planning, decomposing, and estimating new delivery work.
• Understands and escalates technical challenges with options and recommendations.
• Oversees the technical design and development of in-house travel booking web applications based on the gathered requirements for multiple development teams.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to team members; shares information through documentation, workshops, etc. to drive operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team.
• Understands implications of design and implementation choices and provides solutions.

REQUIRED

• Must be a quick learner with the ability to learn and incorporate new technologies and concepts.
• 4+ years’ of experience working with relational databases (preferably MS-SQL Server and T-SQL).
• Demonstrated track record of driving high-quality software design/implementation to production.
• Able to easily shift focus with changing priorities.
• Good understanding and experience with SOAP and/or REST based Web services.
• 5+ years’ of experience with design and development of client/server and/or web based applications.
• Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• 4+ years’ of experience with core Java, Java EE technologies (Servlet and JSP).
• Self-motivated, dedicated, and driven to succeed.
• Good debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.

Recommended

• A passion for being part of a team, willing to self-assess in order to continually find better ways to do things.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment.
• Travel industry knowledge.

Required Documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter

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Pay Ranges:

Level 4 - $152,500 - $182,500, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits — medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, commuter benefits, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan, SmartDollar financial wellness program, to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected]

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.