Senior Engineer

Are You Our Next Rock Star Developer?

We are a technology driven company where our technology is mostly still in our vision; our ideas and dreams of a brighter future for our customers. We will turn this vision into a customer platform that matches our customers to their perfect travel destinations and experiences. We are tracking user activity and these activities will feed into the process of creating the perfect travel package for that specific user.

What we are lacking is the code base and infrastructure to do this, and that's the foremost reason for us hiring. Our business model has been tried out by us and it works, now we only need developers to help us build the tooling that is required for us to optimize our sales team.

The back office application is the first place that we have to get right; this is the tool our sales team needs to get to be able to quickly and efficiently start creating quotes and offers for our users. Currently this is a process that takes a bit too long for us to be able to scale the business efficiently. When this is done the fun part starts. Then we'll start upgrading our current user facing web, add more tracking to build up our knowledgebase of user interaction and interests, and this will lead us to become even better at creating customised experiences for our customers out there.

Currently we have all the best business minds of the industry, now we have to get in the best technology minds, so you have a chance to join the best company of the travel industry and make us even better!

You will be working in our nice new office located just a handful of steps away from Aldgate East Underground Station, and that's also where the interview will take place. The interview process will be short and sweet; interview with me, followed by a pair-programming session, and then topped off with a chat with our CEO.

If you are like me and panic over pair-programming sessions during interviews I can assure you, it will be relaxed, and since I want to hire you the session will be very relaxed. I want to try to find your strengths, not your weaknesses.

What is the Role of Our Next Back-end Developer?

As a Back-end Developer for Luxtripper your main responsibility will be to dazzle me with your SOLID coding principles, show of your skills with IoC containers, and integrate against 3^rd^ Party APIs like a baws. One of our core businesses is the integrations of Hotel and Airline APIs via; unstructured XML Endpoints, SOAP Endpoints, and also Json Endpoints. You must have experience working with multiple different APIs, speak fluent WSDL and XSD, and know WCF like the back of your hand.

First you will make our back office application sing, and when I feel that you are ready, we will together venture down the most exciting path of your career. This will include coding on our user facing and award winning travel site.

To blow my mind you will have to show off your API Integration skills, your knowledge of the inner workings of Entity Framework, and also be able to set up and configure any project type known to Microsoft.

Our Expectations of You

Related to Your Personality:

• Humble and willing to put the Team first.
• Giving accurate timing estimates for your work.
• Train other non-technical staff, particularly designers.
• Contributing to the company development standards.
• Discussing technical solutions with the business owners.
• Follow the trends in the developer community.
• Constantly improving yourself by learning new technologies and frameworks.
• Excitement about emerging web technologies.
• You must be able to both give and take feedback.

Related to Your Technical Orientation:

• I expect you to have expert level C# experience.
• You are an Expert API Integrator and an expert with XML/SOAP and Json APIs.
• You need to have good WCF knowledge.
• Perfect understanding of the SOLID Principles.
• Knowing .NET's MVC and Web API Frameworks.
• Entity Framework 6 is one of your ORMs for the DAL.
• .NET Security
• MSSQL/IIS/Operations experience would make me really impressed to.
• You know all about Code Structure and Design at an Enterprise Level.
• The DDD Principles should shine through when you're developing.
• Great knowledge of OO principles, but experience enough not to overdo it.
• You know TDD and take pride in good coverage, and have a favourite Mocking Framework.
• You should know who Uncle Bob and Martin Fowler is.

If you can't tick all technically oriented boxes that's not a big problem, but if we miss out on any of the personality traits then you probably won't fit in our team.