Java Backend Developer - Consumer Facing Products

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

Holidu is looking for a new member of the search department as part of the search back end development team. Together with your team, you will own the feature development and architecture of our search engine and the related micro-services.

Our Tech Stack

• We are writing the Search Engine and other applications with a micro-service approach, using Java 11, with Spring Boot, running on Kubernetes
• Data storage: Elasticsearch 7, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis
• Heavy usage of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git
• Web-Application and internal applications written with ReactJS
• Native iOS and Android Apps written with Swift and Kotlin
• Monitoring with ELK, Grafana and internally developed technologies
• Unit tests written in Kotlin

Responsibilities:

• Become a part of the team which is fully responsible for our search-engine and all related technologies
• Develop new features that will be used by millions of users
• Implement your own ideas on how to improve and develop our products further
• Together with your team, you will build highly scalable applications with state of the art technologies
• You will work in a squad based organization alongside other Backend Developers, Frontend Developers, Designers and Product Managers
• Together you are responsible for delivering the greatest possible product that offers the best possible experience to our customers

Your qualification

• A degree in Computer Science, or a related field
• Professional development experience in Java, after or during your studies
• Ideally you have worked or you have strong motivation to work with AWS, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Microservices, and the rest of our tech stack
• You love coding and building world class products!

What we offer

• An impact on the millions of people using our product every month
• Grow with responsibility from day 1 and through regular feedbacks
• Free fruit, breakfast and coffee in the office
• Get in shape at the premium gym in our office building for a discounted rate
• Learn languages with meetings in English and subsidized German classes
• Connect and have fun with diverse yet like-minded people at work and regular events
• Go travelling for 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Holidu.