Main Accountabilities and Key Tasks:
- Engineering Delivery
- Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable Java-based applications and services.
- Write production-ready, testable, and maintainable code following CarTrawler’s engineering standards.
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs that support customer-facing and partner-integrated systems.
- Apply a security-first mindset and contribute to continuous improvement of monitoring and observability.
- Debug and resolve complex issues within your team’s domain using a systematic approach.
- Ownership and Quality
- Take end-to-end ownership for delivery — from design through implementation, testing, and release.
- Participate in architectural discussions, contributing to the evolution of our platform and coding standards.
- Identify and communicate risks, dependencies, and blockers early, ensuring predictable delivery.
- Champion CI/CD practices and contribute to improving build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Collaboration and Growth
- Work closely with Product, Frontend, and QA teams to deliver features end-to-end.
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Share knowledge openly to raise the technical bar within the team.
- Support a culture of constructive feedback, inclusion, and continuous learning.
Knowledge and Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in commercial Java development (Java 8 or newer).
- Deep understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and software architecture principles.
- Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot (2+ years).
- Proven ability to build and consume scalable RESTful APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins) and build automation (Maven).
- Strong SQL and NoSQL database skills, with an ability to reason about data modelling and performance.
- Exposure to AWS services (e.g., SQS, Kinesis, ElastiCache) and distributed system design.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services.
- Comfortable working in agile, multi-team environments.
- Collaborative communicator with a focus on outcomes and technical quality.
Top Skills
What We Do
The leading global B2B provider of car rental and mobility solutions to the travel industry. Our purpose is driving successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivalled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer and ride-hailing services. CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, easyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com and Emirates. As a B2B company we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.
