Specialist - IT - Engineering

It's nice to meet you! We are Avis Budget Group:

We are a leading global provider of transportation solutions, operating three of the most recognized brands in the industry: Avis, Budget, and Zipcar - the world's leading car-sharing network. Our employees are driven by a shared ambition to be at their best every day, so that together, we can become the best vehicle rental company in the world. We've been doing this for over 75 years, but we are low ego enough to know that we can do things even better.

The impact you'd drive:

We are fueling up with top tech talent, to build upon our core strengths and to challenge the way we work, think, and behave - so that together, we can provide a better rental experience for our customers. No matter how big or small the idea, we are united by our innovative spirit. We believe that there is strength in togetherness. Strength in us having a common goal: to get our customers on their way quickly, safely, and sustainably. To expand our engineering culture, we're boosting our business with phenomenal people like you. Choose a career with us, and you'll be joining a team of driven people; performing with purpose. At Avis Budget Group, we're driven to be the best vehicle rental company in the world. Together.

What you'll do:

• Ideate, design, develop, QA, and maintain technical solutions that drive rental value stream products globally through digital systems.
• Work with your product and architects to plan the development and deployment details of work, always ensuring excellent monitoring, alerting, automation, and observability
• Estimate, build, observe, test, and learn in an agile environment where sprints last 2 weeks
• Passionate about problem solving and creative thinking when it comes to a desire tackle real life customer friction factors and challenges
• Enthusiastically plan sprints with the team, chunking down issues into small, manageable pieces. Execute against sprint plans by creating code, with a high QA automation code coverage and feeding relevant progress and re-plans back into product teams, sprint updates, release and timebox plans. Always creating sustainable, maintainable, and fully monitored code
• Use excellent diagnostic skills to raise and resolve defects; determine root cause to issues and provide solutions and offer workarounds to a business problem where development engineering becomes too complex
• Applies your mathematical and scientific knowledge and experience to create pragmatic, incremental solutions to innovate and resolve real world problems robustly and at scale

You should apply if you bring:

• Overall 7+ years' experience as software engineer.
• Strong experience as an engineer doing development with ReactJS, Nodejs, Javascript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS and other UI technologies.
• Strong Experience in multiple back-end languages (e.g. Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Strong SQL, Data Modeling and DB skills with experience working on Oracle, PostgreSQL databases.
• Strong/hands-on experience in creating proper RESTful Services & MicroServices with JSON
• Must have experience with tools/frameworks such as Github, Jenkins and Maven
• Ability to implement multiple protocols: Websockets, Webhooks, SFTP, Kafka, JMS
• Experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes platform.
• Strong experience in building applications/services on AWS cloud environment.
• Self-starter, ability to read and develop from a spec
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

We understand applying is intimidating - please try to be confident! You don't have to match all the requirements exactly to be considered. We are looking for technically skilled, invested leaders eager to take the wheel.

Driven People. Performing with Purpose

People

We are people driven: building an engineering culture, stronger together, improving our diversity of thought, backgrounds and beliefs at every level of our organization.

Performance

We are performance driven: encouraging each other to be at our best through leadership, training, tools, and rewards.

Purpose

We are purpose driven: building modern and innovative products, providing safe and balanced transport solutions that make a difference to the lives of our colleagues, customers and communities.

Benefits you'll receive:

• Paid time off
• 401K retirement plan with company matched contributions
• Access to Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance
• Eligible to elect other voluntary benefits including: Group Legal, Identity Theft, Insurance, FSA, additional life insurance coverages
• Contribute up to $260 as a tax free benefit for public transportation or parking expenses
• Employee discounts, including discounted prices on purchase of Avis / Budget cars
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for services including counseling, financial and legal consultation, referrals for care service, and more

The annual starting salary for this position is between $90,000 - $115,000 annually. Factors that may affect starting pay within this range include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

The fine print:

Avis Budget Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other category protected by applicable law.

This advertisement does not constitute a promise or guarantee of employment. This advertisement describes the general nature and level of this position only. Essential functions and responsibilities may change as business needs require. The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law. This position may be with any affiliate of Avis Budget Group.