Software Engineer

At Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) our purpose is to 'open up the world for those who want to see'. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something amazing – travel!

You will be integral to this purpose by helping build the back-end systems that our customers interact with every day. This role will have experience with agile software development, working using the appropriate agile methodologies and lean practices. The role will also allow ability to demonstrate practical experience of development, with a deep understanding of good software engineering practices.

As a Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing, testing, and launching innovative in-house applications within the Integration Services pillar. Your primary focus will be on building robust backend systems that drive our online booking engines. With a focus on Supplier Integrations, you'll have the opportunity to work across multiple products and suppliers to create consistent, performant, predictable APIs no matter the complexity in the product.

Day to day:

• Build efficient, testable and maintainable solutions with the right balance between solving the problem at hand and not over-engineering your solution.
• Leaning into agentic development, not as a replacement tool but as an enabler and extension of yourself.
• Write backend code in TypeScript, utilising the NestJS framework.
• Work with multiple database systems, including: ElasticSearch, DynamoDB and S3.
• Take initiative and always look for ways to improve the quality of our solutions, code bases, technical debt, standards, processes and best practices.
• Own the quality of what we build, through testing and observability to ensure operational reliability and performance.
• Maintain and improve the documentation across our code bases, architectures, and knowledge bases.

You'll be perfect for the role if you have:

• At least 3 years professional experience in software development.
• Previous experience as a Full-Stack Engineer, delivering end-to-end experiences across front-end and backend.
• Experienced with modern JavaScript coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques.
• Proficient in some of the following: TypeScript, Database solutions, Observability, Security, Performance.
• Experience in deploying real world applications through continuous integration pipelines.
• Proven experience in designing and building high traffic, reliable and performant software in Node.js with measurable outputs.