Senior Product Engineer (Hybrid Chicago)

The Senior Product Engineer will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable, maintainable, and high-performing digital solutions for Hyatt's global platforms. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

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, React, 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