We’re looking for a Software Engineer (Java) to join our team of talented back end engineers, working alongside our product teams within our Premier Inn Digital hub in London.

Role:  Software Engineer (Microservices)

Salary: Competitive Salary

Employment Type:   Full-Time role – Permanent

Location: London Holborn (flexible working) 

The PremierInn.com website handles £2billion worth of transactions per year and is critical to the success of our business. If you’re a customer-centric developer, who would like to solve real world problems at scale, this could be the role for you.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll receive training to keep you up to date with the latest technologies and coaching which will give you every opportunity to achieve your career aspirations.

You’ll be part of an Agile team that delivers new robust and scalable features across the entire product lifecycle to the Premier Inn website, from concept, design, build, deploy, test, to release, as well as drive new architectural solutions, scale our systems, and increase performance.

Inside the role:

• Work within an agile team to deliver across the entire product life cycle – concept, design, build (code), deploy, test, release, and maintain/support great products in a Dev-ops environment.

• Partner with our architecture group to develop robust and scalable architectures that comply with Whitbread and industry best-practices and standards.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and team to deliver robust, secure, scalable, tested, and documented capabilities.

• Fully participate in the relevant scrum events; planning and estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Delivering API-enabled components and microservices using containerisation and cloud solutions to the highest engineering standards.

• Learning and sharing engineering skills.

• Delivering value to our business and our customers by using technology to solve business problems with creativity & innovation.

Open to you: 

• You are a passionate developer who loves clean coding but also getting their hands dirty.

• You are passionate about continuously growing your skills and making a difference.

• Excellent experience and knowledge of Java 8+.

• Solid understanding of microservices, as well as implementing and designing RESTful APIs.

• Experience with modern enterprise frameworks, E.g. Spring or Spring Boot.

• Experience with version control e.g. Git.

• Automated Build Systems e.g. Jenkins.

• TDD with Unit Testing (such as Junit or Mockito) and Integration Testing.

• Monitoring application performance and maintaining the application in production.

• Comfortable working in agile methodologies (ideally Scrum) and agile development.

In return for your commitment, we’ve got some great benefits to offer:

ʉۢ A market competitive base salary + up to 30% annual bonus

• Sharesave scheme

• A collaborative work culture that focuses on supporting your success

• A flexible working policy you can rely on

• Up to Family Cover BUPA healthcare

• Optional contributory pension matched up to 10%

• Up to 25% discount off our brands

We’re 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we’re more than that. We’re the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation’s favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night’s sleep guaranteed people. We’re also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it’s the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We’re a constant in a changing world, and we’d love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we’re waiting and so are our brands.

Meeting our ambitious goals to expand and reach new locations across the globe requires serious planning. It means analysing every little detail, spotting and overcoming barriers and working towards our ambitious plans. Think decision science, pricing, revenue and sales, and you’re there. With a lot of doing to be done, you can be part of making big change happen across the globe.  Bring your drive and enthusiasm, and we’ll welcome you in.

Whitbread is an inclusive employer, strongly believing that everyone is unique and there should be no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We are open to flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.

Whitbread is an inclusive employer. We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQ+ community (those who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans sexual, non binary or use another term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. We are open to part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.