Senior Backend Developer - Java

About CheckYeti

Choose from the widest selection of certified ski schools, instructors & guides and book your winter sport experience online. The Yeti will give you a (furry) hand!

CheckYeti is the leading online platform and mobile app to book winter sports activities in Europe. More than 2,500 offers from local ski schools, ski instructors and mountain guides in the most popular ski resorts of the Alps are listed. From kids courses to snowboard lessons and freeride tours - instructors and schools can be found, compared and booked online right away. That’s how holidaymakers and mountain sport enthusiasts from over 50 countries have already found their ideal winter sport offer on CheckYeti.

Position

• Design and implement robust and scalable micro-services that deliver value to the business
• Write integration and unit tests to ensure high quality and well tested features
• Mentor and coach junior developers
• Produce reports using a variety of storage services such as MySQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB
• Ensure consistent and predictable delivery with a focus on performance, compatibility and security
• Stay on top of current technology trends and monitor the design, performance and advancement of similar products across the online travel/activities booking industry

Your qualification

• 5+ years of Java development experience with at least 2 years using Spring framework
• At least 2 years of experience working with MySQL or similar relational Databases
• Desire to take ownership and ability to thrive on that (taking on responsibility is expected)
• High level of personal commitment and flexibility
• Hands-on team player, active communicator and open for feedback
• Experience with consumer-oriented web products, ideally e-commerce and/or online booking platforms
• Fluency in English is essential (working language), German is an advantage

What we offer

• Exciting role in our core development team with great freedom to initiate and implement own ideas
• An ambitious & experienced team with a clear vision in a fast growing start-up environment
• Regular team events (“Outdoor Friday” - sledging, skiing, mountain biking, rafting...)
• Regular trips to Vienna or relocation to Vienna (officially the best city on this planet to live in ;)
• Attractive salary + performance-based bonus

Additional details

Our Technology and Way of Working:

• We work with React, Less, Webpack in the front-end and Grails, Spring in the back-end
• We use different search/storage solutions such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis
• For our CI/CD pipeline we use Bamboo, docker, Ansible and AWS
• We work in small release cycles with 2-3 releases a week; we use Kanban as agile methodology and focus on delivering value to the customer
• We interact directly with everyone in the company, from the founders to marketing, business development and customer happiness team