JavaScript / ReactJS Developer – Search Engine

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 frontend development team. Together with your team, you will own the infrastructure responsible for delivering a high-performance website with an exceptional UX (user experience) and DX (developer experience).

Our Tech Stack

• We are writing the front end of our Search Engine in React JS, running on a cluster of node.js servers in Kubernetes. We are using Redux for managing application state, type checking with Flow, and Express on the server
• The backend of our Search Engine we are writing with a micro-service approach, using Java 11, with Spring Boot, running on Kubernetes
• Data storage: Elasticsearch 7, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis
• Heavy usage of AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, 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

Responibilities:

• Become a part of the team which is fully responsible for the UI of 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 build highly scalable applications with state of the art technologies
• You will work in a squad-based organization alongside other Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Designers and Product Managers. Together you are responsible for delivering the greatest possible product that offers the best possible experience for our customers

Your qualification

• A degree in Computer Science, or a related field
• Professional development experience as Frontend Developer with modern frameworks like ReactJS, after or during your studies
• Ideally, you have also worked or you have the strong motivation to work with ReactJS, Redux, Flow, AWS, Express, Microservices, Kubernetes, and the rest of our tech stack
• You love coding and building world-class products! 

What we offer

• Have an impact on the millions of people using our product every month
• Grow with responsibility from day 1 and through regular feedbacks as well as trainings
• Stay healthy and energized with free fruit, breakfast and coffee in the office
• Connect and have fun with diverse yet like-minded people at work and regular events
• Learn languages with meetings in English and an international team
• Get to know the team and the company spirit during an extensive onboarding phase in Munich

Additional details

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