Senior Software Engineer Content Management System

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN, McLean, VA, or Dallas, TX

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Software Engineering Team reporting to the Senior Manager Software Engineering Content, you will support projects including Hilton.com and several customer-facing applications.

What you'll do during a typical day:

• Develop and deliver content-driven features for Hilton's websites, including feature development, code review, writing unit tests and bug fixes.
• Customize and extend the built-in capabilities of the Content Management System.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues promptly.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
• Operate within the established Agile framework to provide industry-leading front-end web solutions with quality and performance.

How you'll collaborate with others:

• Collaborate with architects, product owners, delivery managers, quality engineers, designers, and other developers to design and implement the Hilton web application experience.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including grooming sessions, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and code reviews.

Deliverables you'll take ownership of:

• Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and thoroughly documented code enhancements, along with meaningful contributions to reusable code libraries.
• Create and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and automated test suites.
• Ensure that applications satisfy established performance, security, and reliability standards.

What It Takes to Make the Stay

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Three (3) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Three (3) years of experience developing large-scale web applications using Java, microservices, multi-threaded programming with an understanding of web design patterns
• Experience NoSQL databases (Couchbase, MongoDB), messaging architectures (Kafka, Redis, etc.), and front-end UI frameworks such as React, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledge of Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence), Docker, and using Git as version control with a team
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools to improve efficiency and quality
• This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, or Memphis)
• Travel up to 10%

It would be useful if you have:

• Bachelor's Degree, or associate's degree plus 5+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience
• Five (5) + years of work experience in Technology or a related field
• Content Management System professional certifications
• Experience building RESTful APIs and understanding of REST principles