Senior Software Engineer

Hilton is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale payments microservices from a base in McLean, VA, with the flexibility of remote work across the United States. The role centers on building robust backend services in Java, communicating via REST APIs, and ensuring reliable financial transactions through disciplined testing and open API specifications. The position offers a salary range of USD 130,000 to 145,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable payments microservices using JDK 11 and JDK 21, leveraging frameworks such as Spring Boot, Dropwizard, JAX-RS, and Java REST APIs.
• Build and optimize CRUD operations across services with MySQL, prioritizing performance, data integrity, and reliability in financial transactions.
• Practice Test-Driven Development, write unit tests with JUnit, and integrate tests with Cucumber to ensure robustness and maintainability.
• Participate in peer code reviews via Git and Stash, providing constructive feedback to raise code quality and enforce best practices.
• Generate and maintain API specifications and service contracts using OpenAPI/Swagger Codege to enable seamless integration across internal and external systems.
• Travel domestically up to 10% as part of the role.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems Technologies, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Three years of experience in technology, software engineering, or a related occupation.
• Experience developing and enhancing enterprise backend microservices using Java.
• Frontend features using Angular.
• Building and maintaining RESTful APIs with Spring Boot, JAX-RS, Jersey, and Lombok for CRUD operations, service orchestration, and system integration.
• Designing Angular components and leveraging RxJS for state management and reactive programming.
• Applying Test-Driven Development with JUnit, Karma, and Jasmine to ensure quality.
• Conducting unit and integration testing with frameworks such as JUnit and Cucumber.
• Contributing to projects through CI/CD pipelines and build tools such as Maven for automated builds, testing, and deployments.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Ability to collaborate in Agile environments including Scrum and Kanban to deliver scalable solutions.

Technologies

• JDK 11, JDK 21
• Spring Boot
• Dropwizard
• JAX-RS
• Jersey
• Lombok
• MySQL
• JUnit
• Cucumber
• Git
• Stash
• OpenAPI/Swagger Codege
• Angular
• RxJS
• Karma
• Jasmine
• Maven

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• PTO
• Life and disability insurance

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