Job Description
Company Description
At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.
Job Description
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveler’s journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are passionate about travel and coding, keep reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.
The job in brief:
- Job Title: Software Engineer
- Working model: hybrid from Bangalore
- Team: you will join our Payments and Fintech Engineering team
- Level - Professional
- Location - Bangalore, India
- Contract - Permanent
What your impact will be
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 capable of handling millions of requests per day, directly impacting the travel experience of our countless users.
- Collaborate with architects to define the best technical solution and infrastructure for new features, always focusing on CI/CD
- Take ownership of quality of the delivery, 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
Your expertise
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,
- Previous experience working with the Spring/SpringBoot ecosystem
- 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
- Experience in startup or product company
- Experience working with XP practices
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services
- Experience with Microservices and Kubernetes
- Experience with Messaging Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
Additional Information
Perks of working with us:
How we work together:
- An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
- Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
- Flexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm
- Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations
How we learn together:
- Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.
- Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content
Other perks:
- 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
- Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
- Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
- We support our employees through life’s significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.
Wish you were here? We do, too!
Selection process steps*:
- HR interview
- 1st Interview (2 hours): Manager + Team Member + Pair Programming
- Offer extended
(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)
Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging
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.
Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.
