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Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
corporate.lastminute.com
https://corporate.lastminute.com/careers/job/?id=743999942748923&jobName=Senior%20Software%20Engineer

The Company

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 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

Job title:

Senior Software Engineer

Brand:

lastminute.com

Department:

Technology

Location:

Chiasso,Switzerland

Contract:

Full-time

Main Language:

English

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

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
  • Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave
  • Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will found dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners