Software Engineer

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our small, but growing team. The right candidate will be passionate and excited to create software that enables hundreds of thousands of students to travel the world. We’re in a great location next to Brandeis University in Waltham, offer flexible work schedules and a great opportunity/excuse to get out and see the world!

Responsibilities:

  • Determining feasibility of proposed solutions by evaluating problems, specifications and discussing with Operations
  • Demonstrate proposed software solutions by providing and presenting documentation, code comments, diagrams and charts to other Engineers and Operations team
  • Implementing proposed solutions and working with Operations on making code Production ready, including squashing bugs, working through changing requirements and deploying/monitoring in an ecommerce environment

Skills & Requirements:

  • Experience with: HTML, CSS, JQuery, AngularJS, Git, WebServices with XML and JSON, PostgreSQL
  • Ecommerce experience using Groovy, Grails, Java, Spring, Hibernate
  • Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience

About StudentUniverse

StudentUniverse empowers young adults to experience the world with discount travel. For students and those under 26, our cheap flights, hotels and tours make it affordable to travel anywhere you want to go. Although we specialize in student and youth discounts, most of our promo codes apply for all ages.

StudentUniverse launched in 2000 and is headquartered in Boston with offices in London, New York and the Philippines. StudentUniverse believes that travel is essential to a modern education. Millions of students use our service every year.

Company Benefits:

  • Relaxed, casual work environment, including flexible hours and work from home policies
  • Onsite gym and locker room available 24/7
  • Happy hour(s), parties, boat cruises and team social events
  • Break room stocked with snacks and refreshments
  • Travel discounts and free airline tickets and vouchers