Introducing Staff Engineering at Trainline 👋 

The Staff Engineers at Trainline tackle the most complex technical challenges of Trainline’s world class product. We create the journey search functionality that millions of our customers use on a daily basis, the eCommerce platform that provides a secure and seamless experience and we connect Trainline to over 270 travel operating companies, across 45 countries in Europe and the rest of the world. 

Each team has a targeted domain focus, ranging between journey search, fares calculation, bookings, fulfilment, payments, refunds, carriers’ integrations, real-time timetable information, journey disruptions and much more.  

As a Staff Software Engineer at Trainline you will... 🚄 

• Deliver complex new functionality or features, defining the most appropriate tools & techniques for you and your team 
• Ensure quality is at the heart of everything you and your team do, leading by example but also supporting your team in improving the quality of their work 
• Design solutions across various technologies, with a willingness to expand yours and others technical expertise. 
• Keep our customer as the number one priority   
• Proactively identify blockers, boulders, time sinks and waste, and attempt to remove them 
• Lead technical decisions in your team and contribute to broader technical discussions across Trainline 
• Support other engineers through mentoring, coaching, code reviews and other advice 
• Take ownership of the development lifecycle from code to production, including deployment and monitoring 

We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍 

• Have hands on experience with complex designs and leading multi-functional project deliveries 
• Have hands on experience with .NET Core/C#
• Have hands on experience with AWS
• Experience designing and developing API´s
• Love using Agile development practices 
• Have hands on experience working on software development of high-volume transactional applications 
• Have experience in asynchronous service/processing 
• Have good testing practices 
• Enjoy mentoring less experienced engineers 
• Have experience with Continuous Integration 
• Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment 
• Have great communication skills 
• Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest and a team player 
• Have a passion to learn new skills 

Our Technology Stack 💻

This cross functional role will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and patterns. At our core we have: 

• C# as our preferred backend language 
• ASP.NET Core 
• AWS cloud technologies 
• New Relic and ELK stack as monitoring and logging tools 
• Windows/Linux 
• Containers 
• Terraform 
• SpaceLift 
• GitHub and GitHub Actions