Java Backend Developer - Holidu Hosts (f/m/d)
Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide. Our mission is to make the booking and hosting of holiday homes free of doubt and full of joy. We help hosts to manage their vacation rental with ease and guests to find the perfect holiday home they truly enjoy. Our team of more than 600 colleagues from 60+ nations shares a passion for modern technologies, an ambition for constant improvement and the drive to bring the best experience to more than 40k hosts and 100 million website users each year. You want to achieve amazing milestones with us? Then pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for take off!
Your future team
- Holidu is our software and service solution that helps vacation rental owners manage and distribute their properties more efficiently.
- Your department is an international group consisting of 35 Developers, Designers, Product Managers, and QAs.
Together with your teammates, you will focus on creating a best-in-class distribution system of our hosts’ listings. You will be responsible for bringing new features to our systems and delivering a great user experience to our users.
Our Tech Stack
- Backend applications written in Java 11+ and Kotlin (with Spring Boot).
- Deployed as microservices on AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster (EKS).
- Event-driven communication between services through ActiveMQ.
- Usage of a diverse set of technologies depending on the use case such as PostgreSQL, SQS, S3, Redis, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Firehose, and many more.
- Monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, and CloudWatch.
Your role in this journey
- You will be part of the team that is fully responsible for our channel manager and all related technologies, which are used to distribute hosts’ listings across different distribution channels, like Holidu, Booking.com, Airbnb, VRBO, and more.
- Together with your team members you will design, implement, evolve, and maintain our Java backend services, written in Java 11+ on the Spring Boot framework.
- Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale in the future to manage our increasing property portfolio.
- Ensure scalable data persistence, either when storing the data in PostgreSQL, caching data in Redis, storing data in a data lake, or by exploring and proposing new state-of-the-art technologies when appropriate.
- Deploy our applications with Jenkins on our Kubernetes cluster running in AWS.
- Promote our core value of focusing on customers by monitoring our systems with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK 7 stack and proactively resolving the issues.
- Take responsibility for end-to-end feature work; through planning, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Apply best practices and continuously learn and share your thoughts with your peers.
Your backpack is filled with
- A degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 2 years professional work experience with Java.
- Experience with developing applications using Spring Boot, using relational databases, and deploying applications in a cloud environment. Experience with NoSQL databases, AWS, and DevOps practices is a plus.
- Familiarity with best practices for integrating and developing RESTful APIs.
- The ability to analyze and solve issues on your own and to effectively work in a team.
- Love for coding and building world-class products! We do and we hope you share our ambition!
- Desire to understand business cases and develop technical solutions based on them.
- Motivation to learn and experiment with modern technologies.
Our adventure includes
- 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.
Check out the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu and dive straight into the world of Tech at Holidu for more insights!
Want to travel with us?
We champion diversity in every aspect of life. We encourage applications from all genders, corners of the world and individual backgrounds. Please feel welcome to submit your application without a photo and details on your gender, date of birth, marital status and nationality. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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