Job Description
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER I| GATEWAY MIDDLEWARE | MUST LIVE IN EASTERN TIME ZONE
Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture.
What's Travelport?
Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We're leading the change; we are the change.
We are on a mission to power the future of travel.
Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate.
What does a great Senior Software Development Engineer do?
Work with global partners to establish communications between Data Centers and cloud providers to supply modern content for Travelport customers.
Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain communications software that supports conversations between systems
• Meet with the IT and design team to discuss and detail requirements.
• Interact with content providers to develop new and enhance existing communications to extend to other systems
• Implement quality and performance testing modules.
• Identifying bottlenecks or bugs and troubleshoot integration issues.
• Establish repeatable testing for code quality and durability.
• Maintain the deployment automation

Who we are looking for in this role:

• C experience on both AIX and Linux
• Understanding software components and their interface requirements with other APIs and systems (i.e., virtualized, containerized, or hardware).
• Knowledge of sockets, shared memory, multi-threading, high availability, and high transaction rates implementations.
• Ability to design and code software extensible in multiple locations under high resiliency standards
• Extensive knowledge of communication protocols
• Knowledge of MQ client desirable
• 8-10 years' Experience in programming and development with C

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you're likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before

Benefits of working at Travelport
We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, a competitive 401(k) match, as well as many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs. We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off. We also offer a New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8.
Salary Target/Range: $115,000 - $135,000
The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training.
Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch!
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.