Senior Java Backend Developer - Financial Systems

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

You will be part of the Bookiply Finance Tech team, composed of Frontend/Backend Developers, Product Manager, and QA. Together with your teammates, you will focus on creating best-in-class tools to help our homeowners manage their properties effortlessly, as well as the Finance team optimize their work and have access to relevant and accurate information. You will be responsible for enabling new features and delivering a great user experience to internal and external users in the Bookiply and Holidu business domains. Together with your team, you design APIs, shape user stories, and evolve the technical foundation of our applications.

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, 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 maintaining applications that handle financial topics, such as payments, revenue and vat calculations, payouts, invoices, etc. It’s also the team’s responsibility to make sure all systems and processes are scalable and that we are in compliance with the needs of the finance team and other stakeholders 
• Together with your team members you will design, implement, evolve, and maintain our backend services and cloud technologies
• Ensure our applications are highly scalable, able to process a high volume of properties and bookings 
• Have extensive ownership and responsibility for projects as well as helping to mentor and coach more junior members of the team
• Build features and tools that serve our customers and internal teams 
• Use your creativity and our modern stack to innovate our business and development processes
• 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

• Finished studies in Computer Science, or related fields and first professional development experience after or during your studies
• Proven track record of shipping reliable and maintainable software 
• Ability to decompose a long term technical vision into smaller deliverable units 
• Strong experience in designing object-oriented software and good understanding of current best practices
• Experience in writing testable code and ability to refactor legacy code for better readability and cohesion 
• 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
• You love to take responsibility, are proactive and always keen to share your knowledge with more junior members of the team

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 further through regular feedback, workshops and knowledge exchange
• Use your personal development budget and 2 extra days off to enhance your professional skills by visiting conferences, buying books, attending courses and more
• Connect and have fun with international, diverse and 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
• Get in shape with a premium gym membership for a discounted rate
• Go travelling for 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria with interesting discounts on our Bookiply properties
• Get a sneak peek at the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu