Java Backend Developer - Holidu Guest Experience (f/m/d)

You will be part of the Visibility team in the Guest Experience department. The team is responsible for increasing Holidu’s organic revenues by supporting our SEO team with the tools needed to create and maintain thousands of content pages. The goal is to ensure these pages are fast, reliable, and well-suited for both users and search engine crawlers.

Your team will consist of backend and frontend engineers, as well as a project manager and a designer. You will actively contribute to one of the fastest-growing revenue streams of the company, ensuring that Holidu (and our whitelabels) are being organically found by anyone searching for a vacation rental and making sure those users find their way into the booking funnel.

You will work in close collaboration with the SEO team, responsible for content creation, optimization, and the overall SEO strategy.

• Backend applications are written in Java 17/21 and Kotlin (with Spring Boot).
• Deployed as microservices on AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster (EKS).
• Data storage with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch 7, and Redshift (as part of a data lake structure).
• Data storage also includes Elasticsearch 7, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Heavy usage of AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Git.
• Monitoring with ELK, Grafana, Looker, and internally developed technologies.

• Design & Implementation: Collaborate with your team members to design, implement, evolve, and maintain backend services.
• Software Development Process: Engage in the entire software development process from ideation to release and monitoring.
• Feature Delivery: Assist in delivering features affecting a significant number of users, ensuring reliability and performance.
• API Development: Focus on delivering clear, well-designed, highly available APIs for user-facing clients, ensuring scalability.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with product management and engineering managers to define team goals and priorities.
• Technical Decisions: Collaborate with peers to drive strategic technology decisions and contribute to the team’s backend backlog.
• Cloud Integration: Work on integrating applications with AWS and maintaining internally provisioned resources.
• Data Management: Get hands-on with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL, managing the data effectively.

• Experience: 2-4 years of professional development experience in Java.
• Technical Skills: Experience with modern application frameworks, relational databases, and deploying applications in a cloud environment.
• API Development: Proficiency in developing highly structured RESTful APIs.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to analyse and solve issues independently and work effectively within a team.
• Passion: Genuine love for coding and building high-quality products.
• Learning: Motivation to learn and experiment with modern technologies.
• Educational Background: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Impact: Make a difference for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
• Growth: Take responsibility from day one and develop through regular feedback, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
• Personal Development: Use your learning budget and 2 extra study days for conferences, books, courses, and more.
• Community: Engage with international, diverse, yet like-minded colleagues through regular events and 2 office days per week with your team.
• Flexibility: Benefit from our hybrid work policy and the chance to work from other local offices for up to 8 weeks a year.
• Fitness: Get a premium gym membership at a discounted rate.
• Travel: Enjoy 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria and the possibility to take up to 10 unpaid vacation days with special discounts on our Holidu Homes properties.