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Urgent! WhereTo - Senior Node.JS Back End Engineer Job Opening In Auckland – Now Hiring FCM Travel

WhereTo Senior Node.JS Back End Engineer



Job description

Senior Back End Engineer

Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers.

The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia has company-owned leisure and corporate travel business in countries, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia.

FCTG also operates a global corporate travel management network, which extends to more than countries through company-owned businesses and independent licensees.

The company opened its first leisure travel shop in Sydney, Australia in 2 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 5.

Our purpose is to “open up the world for those who want to see”.

Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something really amazing – travel!

To learn more about Flight Centre Travel Group please click

About The Opportunity

We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team.

You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform.

A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology, is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, scalable and solid code, is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment, and is a team player.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.

  • Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation bestpractices
  • Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team’s projects.

  • Assist Team Lead in communicating progress, roadblocks, concerns, and
  • successes to engineering management.

  • May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
  • Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
  • Assist Team Lead in code review for your team.
  • Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
  • Assist in onboarding process for your team.
  • You will live and breathe asynchronous I/O, Typed JavaScript and horizontalscalability.

  • Experience & Qualifications

  • Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
  • Strong and JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel) - experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous I/O
  • Excellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized code
  • Experienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNs
  • Expert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian (BASH scripting a plus)
  • Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)
  • Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementation
  • Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internally
  • Experience with Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Experience with memory cache systems (Redis, Memcached)
  • Experience with other systems programming languages is a bonus (Go, C/C++,
  • Rust, etc), and/or scripting languages (Python) and/or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy)
  • Experience with pure functional programming and/or functional programming
  • libraries and concepts is a bonus (Haskell, Scala, F#, Ramda, Lo-Dash FP etc)
  • Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture
  • Strong understanding of Git fundamentals
  • Strong understanding of Docker fundamentals
  • Work Perks! - What’s in it for you:

    FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture.

    We understand that our people are our most valuable asset.

    It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder.

    It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.

  • Have fun: At the heart of everything we do at Flight Centre is a desire to have fun.
  • Reward & Recognition: Celebrate the success of yourself and others at our regular Buzz Nights and at the annual Global Gathering - You'll have to experience it to believe it!
  • Use your smarts: Our people use their quick thinking, expertise, and tenacity to always figure things out.
  • Love for travel: We were founded by people who wanted to travel and want others to do the same.

    That passion is something you can’t miss in our people or service.
  • Personal connections: We are a big business founded on personal relationships.
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through Employee Resource Groups (Racial Equity, Gender Equity, LGBTQ2IA+, Accessibility, Environmental Justice), DEI education initiatives, and equitable practices, including regular equity assessments and inclusive recruitment protocols.
  • A career, not a job: We offer genuine opportunities for people to grow and evolve
  • We back our people all the way: We are strongly committed to supporting every single employee in their professional and personal development.

  • Required Skill Profession

    Computer Occupations



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