American Express Global Business Travel

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

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• Must be able to work a hybrid schedule*

Building features that empower business travelers to book and manage their itineraries, and travel disruptions.

Egencia is the largest Travel Management Company in the world that has built and maintains their own tech stack. We are committed to delivering a higher standard of corporate travel service through innovative technology. Our success is directly attributed to our customers' ability to move their businesses ahead, through their valued relationships with our company and more importantly, with our people. Led by an experienced, visionary management team under American Express Global Business Travel, Egencia has continued to expand its offering of intuitive on-line tools and comprehensive business travel services while maintaining a reputation for great customer service.

Position Overview:

You will work on a tight-knit team, including software engineers, designers, and product owners to build features that simplify business travel and travel management for people on the go.

Responsibilities:

• You will investigate and research potential software solutions for corporate travel-related features
• You will code in a variety of languages including Java (and Kotlin), JavaScript (React preferred), HTML and CSS
• You will identify, recommend, and build solutions that address business and customer needs
• You will craft resilient and highly scalable software solutions within the Egencia platform, optimized for speed and with low memory requirements
• You will contribute to our test automation and overall infrastructure to verify new and existing features function as designed, and to minimize downtime
• You will monitor applications and service performance to ensure quick time to detect and time to resolution of any customer impacting issues
• You will review code and mentor other engineers on standard methodologies and processes
• You will collaborate with team members throughout Egencia in maintaining a healthy code base, adopting new tools, and managing efficient CI/CD Pipelines

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science
• 5+ years’ experience in software development with competencies in OO programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design
• 1 years or more of experience in React
• Understanding of full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and test automation, and DevOps
• Experience communicating with customers, technical teams, and other partners to collect requirements, understand software product features, and technical designs
• Experience integrating 3rd party front-end libraries
• Experience developing/consuming RESTful services
• Experience developing/consuming GraphQL services
• Experience implementing A/B testing
• Experience with git or similar software version control system
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work with minimal guidance and to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively
• Current ability to work in the US

At Egencia, we recognize that our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. We recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. 

At American Express Global Business Travel, our family of travel brands includes: AmexGBT®, Egencia®, Neo Technology Group®, and Ovation®

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
• We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.
• And much more!

This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For details regarding how we protect your data, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.

What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!