Java Backend Developer - Consumer Facing Products

About Holidu

Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide. Our mission is to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy.

We make millions of travelers happy by helping them to book the ideal accommodation for the lowest price. Through an independent software and service solution called Bookiply, we also support vacation rental owners in multiplying their bookings with less work.

Our team of more than 200 colleagues from 40+ nations is based in Munich and in some of the most attractive travel destinations across Europe.

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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.