Overview
Accor Tech & Digital is the innovation and technological transformation lab of the world leader in hospitality. Our teams, known as Heartists®, bring together the best of hospitality with the best of tech and digital. Our ambition is to provide our customers with personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences. Here, we create new ways to travel within our 5,500 hotels, connecting closely with our 100 million clients in 110 countries. Here, we are at the heart of an incredible playground for technological transition and the design of digital products and services for our customers and hotel teams. Here, your scope will know no boundaries; So join us and dare to make an impact on the world ! Here is where your greatest challenge awaits you.
Role and Team
Within the Engineering team, you will join the API Customer, Loyalty & Messaging team , responsible for a strategic middleware layer that orchestrates all flows related to customer data, bookings, loyalty, and communications. This team plays a central role in the IT landscape, acting as an interface between core business systems and consumer-facing channels. It works on high-impact business topics, closely tied to the customer experience. You will report to the Tech Lead and collaborate closely with other Backend Developers, Product Owners, and business teams.
Your Mission
As a Senior Java Backend Developer , you will be responsible for:
- Building APIs at the core of booking and order journeys , including scalable back-end services and APIs and ensuring quality through testing, performance optimization, and maintainability in production
- Structuring and exposing enterprise customer loyalty data with APIs for B2B data aggregation and access and data modeling/integration
- Contributing to the migration to our new central reservation system with event-driven architecture and ensuring service continuity
- Evolving authentication mechanisms and account management with secure authentication processes
- Developing multi-channel messaging services (app, SMS, email) with integrations and asynchronous flows
- Operating in a modern, stimulating technical environment with API and microservices architectures in an agile context , collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to technical decisions
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science (Engineering school, Master’s, or equivalent)
- Proven experience (6+ years ) in Java back-end development in high-traffic environments
- Experience with critical, customer-focused products and high-impact projects
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot for back-end and API development
- Experience with Kafka and asynchronous communication architectures
- Mastery of queuing and streaming concepts
- Ability to design and operate large-scale event-driven systems (hundreds of millions of requests per day)
- Good understanding of cloud and distributed architectures (event-driven)
- AWS experience highly appreciated (infrastructure management)
- Infra/production expertise or strong interest is highly valued
- Ability to design, expose, and consume robust and performant APIs
- Awareness of scalability, resilience, and observability in production
- Interest in Node.js / TypeScript appreciated (complementary services, integrations, tooling)
- Run-oriented DevOps culture : hands-on experience managing production (incidents, monitoring, performance)
Soft Skills
- Analytical mindset and ability to understand complex systems
- Passion for quality, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Ability to collaborate closely with product and business teams
- Autonomy, technical curiosity, and proactive attitude
- Comfort working in an agile, dynamic, and fast-evolving environment
Additional Information
- Accor dares to impact :
- The world: Accor is committed to the world around us, with a strong employer culture focused on the development of our 300,000 talents. We adopt a continuous improvement approach to reduce the impact of digital on the environment across all our projects.
- Your career: We enable all our employees to manage their work-life balance and offer them the means to shape their work environment according to their preferences. Training and career paths are defined both individually and collectively, allowing us to grow together on a daily basis.
- Specifically, at Accor Tech & Digital: Remote work available several days per week from France, with flexible work options: work from home, from our offices, or from hotels and coworking spaces through Worklib. Every Wednesday afternoon, dedicate time to deep work and personal development. Work in a multicultural and English-speaking environment. Continuous improvement & training: hackathons, partnerships, dedicated talent management, certifications and a learning platform.
- All - Heartist® Program: unforgettable stays and experiences at all Accor locations and partner venues worldwide.
- Heartist® for Good Program: commit to supporting an association of your choice (1 day offered per year).
- An Employee Social Committee (CSE) supporting cultural and sports activities.
- Sustainable Mobility Package for eco-friendly transportation or a company bike program via Zenride.
- Coverage of urban public transport subscriptions between home and workplace, with rates set by law.
- €11 meal vouchers and a mandatory health insurance plan funded at 50% by Accor for dependents.
- Collaborative workspaces, restaurants, recreational areas, wellness and sports facilities, on-site or via Gymlib.
- Your talent and motivation are our only selection criteria . We value diversity and inclusion and welcome all applications.
Recruitment is all about people!
Is this mission appealing to you? Apply, and we will offer you a combination of interviews, assessments where required, and insights into our culture and benefits.
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