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Hello, Hej, 你好, Salut!   

Flight Centre Travel Group are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to help build solutions that make it simple and fast for customers to shop, book and travel. You will be responsible for the front-end and backend design, build, testing and release across multiple streams.   
  
This role will build reliable, scalable solutions with a focus on value to the customer. The Junior Full-Stack Engineer will be able to demonstrate practical experience of development, such as agile engineering methods backed by a deep understanding of good software engineering practices  
 

Why Flight Centre? 

🙋🏾‍♀️Culture: you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd 

🎉Development: Individualised, ongoing Learning & Development via communities of practice. Dedicated time to learn, share and collaborate skills, interests and goals, as well as contribute your own expertise and insights of others. 

⭐Innovation Days: the opportunity to create, collaborate, and bring innovative concepts to life with dedicated innovation days!  

🧑‍💻 Dedicated Engineering Days: hosted by technology partners off-site, staff have an opportunity to increase knowledge and skills, and test out new and exciting technologies.  

🔧Tech Learning Tools: access to learning tools such as Udemy for ongoing technical skills development 

♀️ Encouraging Equality: Join our Women in PM&E community, a comprehensive program aimed at fostering gender diversity, empowering, and supporting women in their pursuit of successful careers in technology. It encompasses a variety of initiatives, workshops, mentorship opportunities, and networking events. 

🏆Exclusive Staff Discounts: Accessible via our employee-only portal with 350+ of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more 

🌏Travel Discounts: Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more 

💎Brightness of Future: Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within  

🥦Corporate Health Discounts: Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym 

🌞Mental Health: Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family 

🎉Social: Regular awards nights, social team-building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Los Angeles in 2025)  

🙏🏼 Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising; paid parental and volunteer leave 

💚Sustainability: The protection of our environment is essential to the future of tourism, as a leading travel group, we have made efforts to affect positive change to the environment 

What You’ll Do...  

• Design, develop and deploy web applications, microservices and APIs primarily using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and NextJS

• Craft high quality, secure, testable, maintainable code   

• Own the quality of what we build, through testing, test automation and observability to ensure operational reliability and performance  

• Analyse business requirements and problem solve to create the right solutions for our customers  

• Participate in code reviews with other engineers to provide feedback to ensure we maintain quality, standards, meets requirements and compliance  

• Maintain and improve our documentation across code bases, architectures, and our knowledge bases  

• Collaborate in our cross-functional Product Management and Engineering teams to plan and deliver high quality solutions in a fast-paced, agile environment  

 
Who you are...  

• Have at 1 - 3 years professional experience in software development  

• Have experience as a Full-Stack Engineer, delivering end-to-end experiences across front-end and backend  

• Have proven experience in building user-friendly, responsive web applications for desktop and mobile  

• Are experienced with modern JavaScript coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques. You are proficient in some of the following: TypeScript, Styled Components, HTML and JSS  

• Have proven experience in designing, building high traffic reliable and performant software in React and Node.js  

• Have experience in software testing from unit tests and UI tests with tools such as Cypress, Selenium and Jest  

 
Desirable:   

• Building end-to-end web experiences across front-end and backend  

• Any exposure to the following areas is a plus: Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Redis and AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and Cloudfront   
  
  

Who we are...  

Since our beginning, our vision has always been to open up the world for those who want to see.  

As a global travel retailer, our people come from all different backgrounds, and our connections spread to the far reaches of the globe - 20+ countries and counting! Together, we are a family (we call ourselves Flighties).