Software Engineer - Booking - Costco Travel

Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.
 

The Costco team is looking for a dedicated and highly skilled Software Engineer for its Booking teams. This Software Engineer will perform development of JSP-based Web applications and Java RESTful API-based microservices. The team supports functionality such as Account Management, Single Sign-On, Checkout Process, Integrations with Payment Gateways, and web services related to configuration of the products we offer to members, such as air, cruise, hotels, cars, and ancillaries. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to identify and implement best practices in Java object-oriented programming. This position will require an individual to design, build, debug, optimize, and implement solutions in an Agile environment participating and working closely with their team serving millions of customers daily.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE
● Takes responsibility for implementing, supporting, improving technical design and development of in-house travel booking web applications based on the gathered requirements for multiple development teams.
● Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
● Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.
● Builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in Java, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
● Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
● Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).
● Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.
● Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
● Works with team members to move user stories from the development backlog into testing and provides clarification when needed.
● Estimates, plans, and manages your own implementation tasks and reports on development progress.