Worldticket

WorldTicket is one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions for mid-sized and regional airlines. Every year almost 10 million flight tickets are sold to passengers through our IT solutions. Our customers, the airlines, are located in Europe, Africa, and Asia and our +100 employees are distributed between our offices in Copenhagen, Warsaw, Kiev, Bangkok, and Beijing.

We are currently looking for experienced, innovative, and detail-oriented Software Architect to be based in our Kiev office. As a Software Architect, you will drive our projects from idea to go live and primarily work with one of our development teams in Kiev and Bangkok.

Your mindset should be to improve the user experience, and work processes and help them drive more sales. Your mission will be to know and understand the users and their requirements, innovate and invent work processes and the UI/UX in our sales and distribution platform. In addition, you will own the final result that is put into production and make sure it meets or exceeds the users’ expectations.

With a growing global team and a global customer base, we provide a highly dynamic and international work environment with daily considerations around different cultures, multiple time zones, and various business requirements internally and externally.

We work in an online agile environment, with teams in multiple locations, where the pace is high and daily interaction is a must.

Responsibilities:

Implementing business requirements through Java code

Delivering quality products (acceptance and integration checks on the real environment before passing the code to QA)

Be part of the product team to improve the product and collaborate effectively with PO, front-end developers, QA, and DevOps

Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications

Use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interfaces of desired product

Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards

Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team

Oversee the progress of the development team to ensure consistency with the initial design

Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers

Ensure software meets all quality, security, modifiability, extensibility requirements, etc.

Approve final product before launch

Prepare IT solution documents compliant with the Enterprise Architecture principle

Assuring compliance of individual APIs with Public API technical standard

Collaborate with the development team on the definition of integration and business logic implementation principles

Support of architectural consistency and self-consistent technical decisions of the development team

Technological evangelism, spreading modern engineering, architectural, and design practices

Coordination of technical debt work, technical backlog management

Help the development team with technical problems and decisions

Mentoring and coaching of development team members in technical directions

Qualifications:

Proven experience as a software architect

8+ years of backend/full-stack coding experience with at least 5 recent years working with Java

Excellent knowledge of solution design, architectural analysis, and development

Familiarity with Live Data Processing, Scaling Enterprise Systems, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot and Hibernate

Multithreading, resource allocation, and concurrency understanding ability to write clean, extendable, and maintainable code

Will be a significant plus

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or computer science

Fluent spoken English with broad tech vocabulary

Exquisite communication and organizational skills

Being a team player

We Offer

You will join and work with a global team with ambitious colleagues in multiple locations. You will be able to communicate and work directly with our airline customers as well as with a variety of internal stakeholders.

We offer a fulfilling work environment for professional as well as personal development and a great opportunity to advance your qualifications and skill set from a job in the IT — and travel sector.

We offer a full-time position characterized by a competitive salary, based on skills and experience.

Application deadline: 30 Dec. 2023

WorldTicket is currently looking for an experienced, innovative, and detail-oriented Team Lead to be based in our Kyiv office (you may work remotely).

 

We are a product company with global team and a global customer base, constantly improving existing services and growing our expertise.

Our ideal candidate is passionate and hands-on team leader, mentor, responsible for 5+ engineers, Able to create an impact on the design and development of products, endsoring Agile thinking and following scrum processes to ensure team productivity and fast time to market.

Key functions and responsibilities include:

• Take full ownership of your work from the initial design phase through to production
• Design detail technical solutions using best available technology
• The individual must demonstrate detailed understanding of the software lifecycle process and have worked in an Agile environment
• Establish team goals and milestones
• Develop reusable, stateless and styles components
• Experienced in designing and building multi-tenant, scalable micro services system 
• Capable to design and implement Java-based backend services using a current technology stack and adhering to DDD,  Clean Code and SOLID Principles in Object Oriented Programming
• Creative thinker with excellent communication skills
• Self-learner, strong can-do attitude and great interpersonal skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• At least 2 years experience leading the team
• At least 5 years Java development experience
• Experience with AWS and K8S is an advantage
• Familiar with CI/CD tools
• Algorithms and Data Structure knowledge
• Experience working with GraphQL, Rest, Spring, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Experience working in containerized environment
• Familiarity with Agile/ Scrum methodology and strong understanding of Agile based SDLC
• Excellent & Fluent English verbal and written communication skills
• Uncompromising 'Can-Do' approach
• Business Understanding: Experience with Aviation / Travel Tech  is a major plus

It would be a plus:

• Experience with Kafka 
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and related services
• Airline industry experience is a big plus