Hybrid Senior Product Engineer

at Hyatt

• Job title: Senior Product Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $115,000 - $145,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, Apache, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Gradle, Hibernate, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven, Microservices, NGINX, Node.js, RDBMS, Selenium, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, SQL, Webpack
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Engineer focused on designing and delivering high-performing digital solutions for Hyatt's global platforms. Collaborating with teams to ensure reliable and secure technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of complex features and services across the stack.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable software architectures.
• Mentor and support mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.
• Define and enforce best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Enhance observability, reliability, and performance of production systems.
• Drive adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and cloud technologies.
• May serve as a technical lead for projects or initiatives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, architecture, and technical operations.
• 2+ years of experience leading small project teams (2–5 engineers) in an Agile environment.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure applications.
• Hands-on experience with front-end and back-end development using modern frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and associated frameworks, including Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, MyBatis, AngularJS, and Node.js.
• Solid experience with SQL and relational database design.
• Expertise in RESTful services, API development, and integrations using APIGEE, nginx, and JSON.
• Working knowledge of Apache Kafka for building event-driven architectures and integrating microservices.
• Experience with automated testing using frameworks such as Karma, Selenium, Protractor, WebDriver, and Jasmine.
• Skilled in continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins, Git, Bash scripts, Maven, Gradle, Webpack, and WildFly application/web servers.
• Proficient in using Jira and Confluence for documentation, collaboration, and project tracking.
• Strong understanding of requirements analysis, system design, and DevOps best practices.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Skilled in planning how applications connect with databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and external APIs.
• Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, relational databases (RDBMS) concepts, and dimensional modeling
• Experience with designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly those that apply to Operation Data source and Data Migration.

Benefits

• Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally
• Flexible work schedule
• Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription, and a discount at the on-site fitness center
• A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption
• Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match