(Senior) Backend Engineer - Guest Experience (f/m/d)

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

You will be part of one of the 6 teams in the Guest Experience department. The department is responsible for the user journey starting from attracting users (paid search/SEO/returning customers) till the very end of the booking process and even beyond.
Your future team consists of backend and frontend engineers, a project manager, a designer, a QA manager and an engineering manager.
You will take an active part in shaping the product as well as architecture, delivering a high-performance website with an exceptional user and developer experience.

Our Tech Stack

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.

Your role in this journey

You own the entire backend journey of users in your team.
You are involved in the whole end-to-end software development process, from ideation all the way through to the release and monitoring.
You have the freedom and ownership to implement your ideas on how to improve and develop our products further.
You collaborate closely with the product manager, the designer and the frontend developers.

Your backpack is filled with

Experience: 5+ years of professional development experience in Java/Kotlin.
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.

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 insight!

Want to travel with us?

Apply online on our career page! Your first travel contact will be Adam from HR.

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.