Associate Software Dev Engineer

Venere.com (Expedia Group)

💼 Full-time • June 2011 → February 2014
🏢 Venere.com (Expedia Group)
🔗 Expedia Group
📍 Rome Area, Italy • On-site

Venere.com (an Expedia Group company) was the Italian leader in online hotel reservations. I worked initially of the back-end using the technologies: Spring Framework, Virtual Machine monitoring, SOA architectures, RESTful web services, multithreaded programming, caching policies, advanced logging techniques, Sybase and MySQL RDBMS, spymemcached, Couchbase Document Oriented NoSQL Database. Then I moved on the development of front-end side, in particular, I worked for the mobile version of the website (responsive). Among the various technologies (JavaScript, Backbone, PHP, RESTful web services, Apache / Nginx, Nodejs) I have gained knowledge on the techniques of user tracking, split testing and multivariate testing.

• Developed and maintained scalable back-end systems using Spring Framework and multithreaded programming.
• Contributed to the mobile-responsive redesign of the website, enhancing user experience across devices.
• Implemented caching and logging strategies to improve system performance and traceability.
• Gained hands-on experience with both relational (MySQL, Sybase) and NoSQL (Couchbase) databases.
• Applied split testing and multivariate testing techniques to optimize user engagement and conversion rates.

Skills

• Spring Framework
• JavaScript
• MySQL
• Node.js
• PHP
• Technical communication

• Business awareness

• Java

Top 5 Soft Skills:

• Goal alignment

Projects

• 💻 Venere Website

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Job Description

Role Summary: Supporting team member with solid grasp of software engineering principles, contributing to projects and engaging in technical discussions.

Role Expectations:

• Collaborate and co-develop solutions with team members
• Build technical expertise and seek knowledge from experts
• Develop and test standard software applications
• Apply software design principles and write clean, maintainable code
• Report clearly on work status and ask insightful questions

Skills:

• Proficiency in at least one programming language
• Understanding of data patterns, storage, and software design
• Debugging and basic testing
• Application of computer science fundamentals
• Business awareness and goal alignment