Senior Backend Developer (Java or Kotlin) - Host Experience (all genders)

Munich, Germany

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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 which helps vacation rental owners manage and distribute their properties more efficiently.
Your team 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 tool to help our hosts manage their properties effortlessly, and support internal business teams by implementing and improving their processes. You will be responsible for bringing new features to our apps 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, Kafka, and many more.
Monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK and CloudWatch.
Internal and external web applications written with ReactJS.

Your role in this journey

You will be part of the team which is fully responsible for our vacation rental app and all related technologies which are used by homeowners and internal business teams (Sales, Account Managers, Customer Happiness).
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.
Ensure our applications are highly scalable, able to manage a high volume of properties.
Ensure scalable data persistence, either when storing the data in PostgreSQL, caching data in Redis, 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, ELK 7 stack and proactively resolving the issues.
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.
Several years of professional development experience in Java or Kotlin.
Experience with developing web services with Spring Boot, using relational databases, and deploying applications in a cloud environment. Experience with NoSQL databases 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.
Desire to understand business cases and develop technical solutions based on them.
Love for coding and building world-class products! We do and we hope you share our ambition!
High 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.

Need a sneak peek?
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?

Apply online on our careers page! Your first travel contact will be Katharina from HR.

We are committed to diversity in all aspects of our business. We encourage applications from all genders, all corners of the world and all individual backgrounds. You are welcome to submit your application without a photo and without stating your gender, date of birth, marital status, nationality or disability status (if applicable).
If you require any special assistance when arranging interviews, office visits or the recruitment process in general, please contact the relevant HR person responsible for this job and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.