Java Backend Developer - Bookiply

About Holidu

Holidu is a travel & tech start-up that is building the world’s best search engine for vacation rentals. Our mission is to make finding and booking the perfect rental finally easy. We are on this journey in a rapidly growing team of travel and technology enthusiasts from all over the world. Our travel mates also include investors and mentors who have helped companies such as Booking.com, Spotify and Zalando to achieve global success. So, pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for take off!

Position

Your future team

• Bookiply 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 40 (and growing) Developers, Designers, Product Managers, and QAs
• Together with your teammates, you will focus on creating a best-in-class tool to help our homeowners manage their properties effortlessly. You will be responsible for bringing new features to the Bookiply app and delivering a great user-experience to our homeowners

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 homeowner app and all related technologies
• Together with your team members you will design, implement, evolve, and maintain our Java backend services, written in Java 8-15 on the Spring Boot framework 
• Ensure our applications are highly scalable, able to synchronize 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 qualification

• A degree in Computer Science, or a related field
• Professional development experience in Java, after or during your studies 
• 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
• 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. Having a personal pet project is a big plus

What we offer

• Have an impact on the millions of people using our product every month 
• Grow with responsibility from day 1 and develop yourself through regular feedback
• Connect and have fun with diverse yet like-minded people at work, regular events and weekly office days with your team
• Get to know the world with our flexible home office policy and the opportunity to work from other local offices
• Learn languages with meetings in English and subsidized German classes 
• Get in shape with a premium gym membership for a discounted rate
• Go traveling for 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria
• Get a sneak peek at the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu