Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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A Day in the Life

Come join us in our on-going digital transformation at Hertz

Job Description

The Hertz Telematics Platform was built from the ground up to be an AWS cloud native application, using AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) to dynamically generate infrastructure-as-code templates & deploy resources.

This infrastructure as code is used to describe the complete ingestion, processing, data export & APIs for the entire Hertz fleet, worldwide

It filters, processes & evaluates millions of distinct events a minute, from hundreds of thousands of vehicles, from many OEMs, in several countries, with multiple consumer internally and externally through a variety of streams, queues and REST APIs. Our teams are small, agile, and there is a startup feel to the work we do, with plenty of room to innovate.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Backend or Full Stack AWS Software Engineer to join our team, working on uses cases related to vehicles (ICE, Hybrid & EVs) connected to our Hertz Telematics Platform and other Hertz APIs.

You'll be involved in varied integration initiatives for Telematics, including working with 3rd -party engineers to help them shape their API designs for our use cases. You'll also have the opportunity to work on a modern UX driven React web application that is the window into Hertz' fleet. All of this is in AWS with high quality, resilient, de-coupled services.

This is a senior engineering role with lots of room to grow & take the lead on specific initiatives.

If you enjoy working with the latest technologies, large volumes of data, modern UX & development best practices and robust reliability in AWS at scale, this could be the role for you.

What You Will Do

• Work in an Agile environment with Engineering, QA & Product leaders in Sprints
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers, UX & stakeholders to design & deliver innovative solutions to business challenges
• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle from inception to deployment
• Design, document and implement new innovative solutions with a wide variety of technologies
• Learn on the job and bring new solutions, ideas & technologies to the team
• Contribute to an environment of cutting edge, high quality, well monitored, reliable cloud native software
• Take ownership of initiatives, inform processes and work with peers with a variety of backgrounds and an eagerness to learn, support and grow professionally
• Peer review code, giving and receiving productive feedback, and sometimes challenging and being challenged on implementation decisions

Essentials Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of Software engineering experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment, and cooperating with Product Manager & other engineers required.
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications or professional experience.
• A sense of ownership and pride in your work and its impact.
• Organized and effective communicator.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and time-management skills.

Required Skills & Experience

• AWS & Lambda or ECS or EKS or K8s or similar cloud hosted software experience.
• Strong coding experience required in at least two of these languages or similar OOP language: Java or Groovy or Kotlin or Scala, Javascript or Typescript, Python
• Experience in modern JS frameworks like React or Vue or Angular & testing technologies.
• A desire & willingness to learn new technologies, language agnostic & versatile.
• Source control experience with Git & ideally GitHub Enterprise.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Big Data processing with Stream or Queue technologies such as Kinesis, Kafka, SQS etc.
• SaaS experience
• AWS & other professional certifications are a plus.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders, product & UX teams.
• Ability to design solutions & communicate those designs effectively.
• Experience leading a project or owning a solution.
• Linux / OSX knowledge & bash scripting experience.
• Scripting, build & automation tools experience in any one or more of the following a plus: Bash & shell scripting, pip, pipenv, poetry etc. npm, node, yarn etc. groovy or maven, Jenkins or Github actions
• CloudFormation, Docker, K8s, EKS, ECS and similar orchestration software experience is a plus.
• Experience monitoring APIs, for health, usage & rate-limiting desirable.
• Experience automating software testing, versioning, releases, deployments & rollbacks in AWS using Jenkins or GitHub Actions is a plus.

Hertz is an equal opportunity employer

Hertz is an equal opportunity employer, all applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland (Valid EU Passport / Relevant Visa).

What You'll Get

• Employee Friends & Family rental discount (40% discount for employee & partner; 30% discount for up to 8 additional family/friends)
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 22 days holidays on hire rising to 27 days with service.
• Occupational Pension Scheme with up to 5% company matched contribution.
• Life Cover payable at 4 times base salary.
• Profit Share Scheme
• Tuition support plus access to compressive online learning platform
• 10 days paid study leave & paid exam leave where exams fall during work hours.
• Income protection for long term illness
• Professional membership fees paid in full annually where membership relates directly to role.
• Bike to Work & Travel Pass schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family
• Occupational Health support
• Christmas savings scheme

About Us

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Automotive

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