About CarTrawler

CarTrawler brings opportunities to life through a global online marketplace connecting Partners, Customers and Suppliers.

Our market leading B2B mobility platform expands airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, while deepening those relationships and creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities.

CarTrawler works in partnership with many of the world’s biggest travel brands, providing mobility services for over a quarter of the top 100 airlines globally, including easyJet, Alaska Airlines, Jetstar, SWISS, KLM and Emirates and OTA’s such as eDreams, Hotels.com and Hopper.  As a B2B company we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build brands, not our own.

For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems.  Based in Dublin, all decisions are made here - in Ireland.

Role Purpose

The Developer Experience Role within Cartrawler is a series of practices and processes that are intended to speed up and automate aspects of the processes of developing, testing and releasing software, allowing for the continuous delivery of software and software updates.

You will be working with front-end and backend teams within our Product and Technology Departments identifying key areas of improvement within each team’s tech stack focusing on re-usability and standardisation.

It’s a way to build collaboration and transparency across software development and IT operations – leading to greater visibility for business teams and, ultimately, more revenue. Tightening feedback loops and improving communication between IT and developers will help you quickly build observable systems that drive real customer value.

Reporting to:      

Developer Experience Engineering Manager

Main accountabilities and key tasks:

·         Building and setting up new development tools internally

·         Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

·         Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results

·         Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’

·         Demoing tools and achievements to relevant stakeholders

·         Working with Engineering Managers and engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

·         Planning out projects and being involved in System Designing across multiple products

Knowledge and Experience:

·         Solid Experience with software development in one or more of the following languages: Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Java

·         Solid Experience with writing Unit Tests, Integration Tests and Performance Tests

·         Good Experience with Release Management

·         Solid Experience in Building Tools and Custom Libraries

·         Knowledge of best practices using Code Reviews and Gitflow

·         Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus

·         Excellent oral and written communication skills

·         Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

·         Process-oriented with great documentation skills

Awareness of AWS cloud technologies is a nice to have

Working knowledge of container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes using Docker is a nice to have but not essential