About Marriott:
Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories.
Role Title: Software Engineer
Position Summary:
- The GraphQL API team at Marriott believes they can improve the digital experience of millions of guests around the globe. They also believe they can improve the engineering experience for their team and other Marriott associates. We believe we can do that by challenging the status quo to find the best ways possible to deliver and enjoy a digital experience.
- We are seeking a highly engaged and motivated JavaScript Engineer who is passionate about continuously improving their skills and learning new technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong JavaScript/TypeScript background and possess exceptional communication skills.
- This is a growth position within our organization. In this role you will have the opportunity to enhance your skills working with GraphQL and API design. You will be responsible for researching data source APIs, designing GraphQL schema, and implementing resolvers. You will be surrounded by a team of experienced engineers with a team mindset that are ready to work together to build amazing things.
Job Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:
- Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
- Ability to work liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery
- Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested
- Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.
Delivering Technology:
- Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
- Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
- Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning
- Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes
- Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams
- Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development
- Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels
- Coordinates with Application Delivery and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities
IT Governance:
- Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
- Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk
- Ability to assess when risks need to be escalated to right channels.
- Follows the defined project management standards and processes
Skill and Experience:
- Self-motivated and results-driven, with a passion for learning and growth
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- JavaScript and TypeScript as your primary development language
- Experience with modern front-end or back-end web technologies and frameworks.
- Proven track record of working with scalable, high-quality web applications
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile(SCRUM) Process
- Strong understanding of data structures and software design patterns
- Deep understanding of the difference in capabilities (such as orchestration, filtering, sorting etc) that GraphQL provides over REST
- Knowledge of when to best apply those capabilities
- 2+ years designing and building APIs
- 2-4 years contributing to JavaScript projects (strong knowledge of ES6
- Server side GraphQL API design
- A desire to create great GraphQL Schema
- Ability/understanding on how to use containerization (Docker) for node.js apps
- Performance tuning experience
- Technical writing experience
- QA Automation experience
Work location: Hyderabad, India.
Work mode: Hybrid.
Marriott's core values:
At Marriott, our make us who we are. We believe that success is never final. As we change and grow, the beliefs that are most important to us stay the same—putting people first, pursuing excellence, embracing change, acting with integrity, and serving our world. Being part of Marriott Tech Accelerator means being part of a proud history and a thriving culture.
