Job Description
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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 Principal 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.
You’ll Spend Time On The Following :
Take part in the entire products lifecycle and strategy (concept, design, test, release and support), collaborating with product managers and other engineers to create the best experience for our customers within our next-generation products
Development cycle main responsibility - 70% of software engineering tasks
Create, maintain, and implement the source code of our products that meet the needs and requirements of our products and customers using a range of practises like TDD, DDD, Clean Code or SOLID Principles
Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending (and sharing) in-house and / or external courses, reading manuals and testing new applications or solutions
Understanding how our business works and how products add value to our customers
Understand how technology impacts our business and could be an enabler for our success
Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products
Be responsible for the quality of the delivery
Be responsible for the performance, reliability and scalability
Collaborating and sharing knowledge with others across the group to solve complex problems to deliver end-to-end solutions
Mentor other engineers and be for them a point of reference
Qualifications
The Expertise You Have
5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO / FP languages but preferably in JVM : Java or Kotlin
Proven microservices architecture
Previous experience working with Clean code, SOLID principles and Agile mindset
Strong analytical skills an ability to take decision based on data
Experience working in a development team using agile and extreme programming methodologies
Prior experience mentoring and coaching teammates in a collaborative and team-based organisation
Analyse issues from multiple perspectives involving all relevant parties in identifying alternative solutions and making a decision
Positive and collaborative attitude
Growth mindset
Fluency in English both written and spoken
Previous working experience in startup or product company is a plus
Previous experience with XP practises is a plus
Skills You Bring
Passion, for creating amazing customer experiences on our product using your strong understanding of data and business needs
Business Acumen : The ability to take a big picture view of a situation, to weigh it up quickly, make a logical, sound decision confidently, and influence others to agree with you in order to have a positive impact towards achieving the objectives of the organisation
Analytical mindset : able to evaluate methods for collecting data, comparing available resources and drawing logical conclusions
Customer Approach and critical thinking
Product Thinking : the ability to contribute to the creation of company roadmaps and ensuing feedback. Simplifies product and technical design through proactive conversations.
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
Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
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
Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave
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 phone call : We will have a talk of production on technical aspects, experiences and analysis of possible personal scenarios
Interview with technical director and hiring manager : Candidates will have the opportunity to meet our technical leaders
CTO interview or Tech interview with a pair session with them using an exercise to evaluate skills.
Interview follow-up : Candidates will receive feedback from our recruitment team
Do you want to know more about our technologies? You can see our technological stack .
