The Company
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
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design, development, and deployment of Java/J2EE applications.
- Architect scalable and maintainable systems following best practices.
- Guide the team in adopting modern development techniques, tools, and frameworks.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and architects to align on requirements and design.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality, performance, and security standards.
- Troubleshoot and resolve critical issues across environments.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and estimation.
- Coach and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8–12 years of hands-on Java development experience.
- Strong experience in Java and J2EE technologies.
- Proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate/JPA.
- Experience with RESTful services, SOAP, and API design.
- Strong hands-on with SQL and relational databases like Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Cassandra is a plus.
- Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Good exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and build tools like Maven/Gradle.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, Event Driven Architecture, containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of performance tuning and scalable application architecture.
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Analytical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
