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Come join us in our on-going digital transformation at Hertz!

The Hertz Telematics Platform was built from the ground up to be an AWS cloud native application, using AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) to dynamically generate CloudFormation templates & deploy resources.

This infrastructure as code is used to describe the complete ingestion, processing, data export & APIs for the entire Hertz fleet, worldwide. It filters, processes & evaluates millions of distinct events a minute, from hundreds of thousands of vehicles, from many OEMs, with multiple consumers internally and externally through a variety of streams, queues and REST APIs.

Our teams are small and agile, and there is a startup feel to the work we do, with plenty of room to innovate.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our team, working on uses cases related to vehicles (ICE, Hybrid & EVs) connected to our Hertz Telematics Platform and other Hertz APIs.

You'll be involved in varied integration initiatives for Telematics, including working with 3 rd -party engineers to help them shape their API designs for our use cases. This is a senior engineering role with lots of room to grow & take the lead on specific initiatives.

If you enjoy working with the latest technologies, large volumes of data, and robust reliability in production at scale, this could be the role for you.

What you will do:

• Work in an Agile environment with Engineering, QA & Product leaders in Sprints

• Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers & stakeholders to design & deliver innovative solutions to business challenges

• Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle from inception to deployment

• Design, document and implement new innovative solutions with a wide variety of technologies

• Learn on the job and bring new solutions, ideas & technologies to the team

• Contribute to an environment of cutting edge, high quality, well monitored, reliable cloud native software

• Take ownership of initiatives, inform processes and work with peers with a variety of backgrounds and an eagerness to learn, support and grow professionally

• Peer review code, giving and receiving productive feedback, and sometime challenging and being challenged on implementation decisions

Essentials Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of Software engineering experience

• Experience working in an Agile environment, and cooperating with Product Manager & other engineers required .

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications or professional experience.

• A sense of ownership and pride in your work and its impact.

• Organized and effective communicator.

• Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and time-management skills.

Required Skills & Experience:

• AWS & Lambda or ECS or EKS or K8s or similar cloud hosted software experience.

• Strong coding experience required in at least two of these languages or similar OOP language:

• Java

• Python

• Javascript or Typescript

• Big Data processing with Stream or Queue technologies such as Kinesis, Kafka, SQS etc.

• A desire & willingness to learn new technologies, language agnostic & versatile.

• Source control experience with Git & ideally GitHub Enterprise.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• AWS & other professional certifications are a plus.

• Experience communicating with stakeholders.

• Ability to design solutions & communicate those designs effectively

• Experience leading a project or owning a solution.

• Linux / OSX knowledge & bash scripting experience.

• Scripting, build & automation tools experience in any one or more of the following a plus:

• Bash & shell scripting

• pip, pipenv, poetry etc.

• npm, node, yarn etc.

• groovy or maven

• Jenkins or Github actions

• CloudFormation, Docker, K8s, EKS, ECS and similar orchestration software experience is a plus.

• Experience monitoring APIs, for health, usage & rate-limiting desirable.

• Experience automating software testing, versioning, releases, deployments & rollbacks in AWS using Jenkins or GitHub Actions is a plus.

What You’ll Get:

• 40% off any standard Hertz Rental in Corporate countries.

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements

• 22 days holidays on hire rising to 27 days with service.

• Occupational Pension Scheme with up to 5% company matched contribution.

• Life Cover payable at 4 times base salary.

• Profit Share Scheme

• Employee Friends & Family rental discount (40% discount for employee & partner; 30% discount for up to 8 additional family/friends)

• Tuition support plus access to compressive online learning platform

• 10 days paid study leave & paid exam leave where exams fall during work hours.

• Income protection for long term illness

• Professional membership fees paid in full annually where membership relates directly to role.

• Bike to Work & Travel Pass schemes.

• Free onsite gym with personal training available as well as daily fitness classes

• Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family

• Onsite Occupational Health support

• Discounted Microsoft at Home plan

• Christmas savings scheme

• Subsidised staff restaurant with library & games area, self-catering facilities also available

• Free parking

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.