Senior Software Engineer - remote working model

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. 

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink". 

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people. 

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange. 

Job Description

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 senior software engineer, you will work with our Product Engineering team and directly impact the lives of a global population of travelers. You will be involved in building and developing our own scalable and resilient platforms to support an ever growing number of customers

Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Design, write and test high-quality software by using a range of practices like TDD, DDD, Clean Code, 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 
  • Use tech expertise to proactively find solutions to solve complex issues, understanding and considering the business needs
  • 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 TDD,-DDD, 
  • Strong analytical skills an ability to take 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