Senior Software Engineer Content Management System
Employer not yet confirmed · Memphis, Tennessee, United States · hybrid
Exceptional Hospitality Starts with YouThis 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 StayYou 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