Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin): Building and optimizing large-scale, highly transactional distribution platform services for hotels with an accent on cloud technologies, asynchronous, reactive, and microservice architectures. Focus on refining product requirements, supporting production systems, and mentoring junior developers in a cross-functional distributed team.

Location: Hybrid in Manila, Philippines

Company

hirify.global is a world-leading hotel commerce platform helping accommodation owners find and book more guests online in over 150 countries.

What you will do

• Refine and deliver product requirements with minimum support.
• Work with a cross-functional distributed team using agile methodology.
• Write clean, well-organised code, making appropriate trade-offs between performance, robustness, and extensibility.
• Support production systems on a shared roster basis.
• Work closely with other developers, pair-programming, and reviewing pull requests.
• Mentor and support junior developers.

Requirements

• Extensive experience (minimum 5 years) in Java/JVM technologies, preferably Spring Boot.
• Understand microservice architectures and RESTful APIs.
• AWS experience with EC2, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, or S3.
• Competent with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Aurora) and key/value store databases (e.g., Cassandra, Redis).
• Understand code testability, build pipelines, Docker, and CI/CD systems.
• Work format: Hybrid in Manila.
• English: B2 required.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Excellence-driven, collaborative, and non-hierarchical culture.
• Mental health and well-being initiatives.
• Generous parental leave, paid birthday, study, and volunteering leave every year.
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations.
• Investment in your personal growth and training for advancement.