Company Description

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

Job Description

* Please note that this is a full remote working position

We are a digital travel company, with tech at its core, currently looking for motivated problem-solvers who will embrace the end-to-end responsibility of building, delivering and evolving relevant products.

 As a senior software engineer in lastminute.com, you will work in our Product Engineering team and directly impact the lives of a global population of travellers. You will be involved in building and developing our own scalable and resilient platforms to support an ever-growing number of customers. From the first day with us, you’ll experience working in a company with a “growing-sharing culture” with a lot of opportunities to improve existing products, bring new ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities

Design, write and test high-quality software by using a range of practices like TDD, DDD, Clean Code or SOLID Principles
Create resilient, secure, and performant applications able to serve millions of requests per day
Define the best technical solution and infrastructure for new features together with architects, always focusing on CI/CD
Be responsible for the quality of the delivery 
Be responsible for the performance, reliability and scalability
Use tech expertise to proactively find solutions to solve complex issues, understanding and considering the business needs
 Contribute positively to the team´s technical growth, sharing your technical knowledge by interacting with your peers in the day by day activities 
Make real impact Influencing and guiding engineers working in the whole product engineering department
Collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, and stakeholders from multiple teams to solve complex problems to deliver end-to-end solutions
Qualifications

Essential

Strong experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO/FP languages but preferably in JVM: Java or Kotlin
Previous experience working with Clean code, SOLID principles and Agile mindset, 
Strong analytical skills and ability to make decisions based on data
Ability to understand the business requirements
Positive and collaborative attitude
Growth mindset
Fluency in English both written and spoken

Desirable

previous working experience in startup or product company
previous experience with XP practices

Additional Information

What we offer

Possibility to work in an international agile environment using eXtreme Programming practises
Dedicated time for personal growth
Bleeding edge technology stack (Java and Kotlin, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes and more ...)
Continuous learning program with technical internal sessions
Access to online learning platform like O’Reilly 
Possibility to join conferences around Europe for continuous improvement
Coding Dojo: a weekly training to learn and share coding techniques during office hours
LM-Talks: our very own knowledge sharing internal sessions

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can generally expect a hiring process similar to the following (note that depending on location and availability, the process may be slightly modified and can be completed in its entirety within 2-3 weeks).

Selected candidates receive the first feedback on their application from our recruitment team
HR interview: We will have a talk of production on technical aspects, experiences and analysis of possible personal scenarios
Technical interview: Candidates will have the opportunity to meet our technical leaders while doing a pair session with them using an exercise to evaluate skills. (consider the exercise as a day by day work and it is not important to close all the points of the exercise,  but it is important how you reason on it and how you execute it)
Interview follow-up: Candidates will receive feedback from our recruitment team