HolidayCheck is deeply commited to providing the best experience in online travel for our customers. Now we need help to bring our platform to the next level from a passionate
- Be part of our backend developer team driving our Scala/Akka-based travel search and booking platform
- Propose, draft and implement services and complete features in our distributed environment
- Design and refactor components for high availability, scalability, and resilience
- Co-Own our backend architecture and keep a minimal set of documentation up to date
- Help product owners to write great, concise user stories with high business value
- Drive towards continuous deployment in our Docker-based infrastructure
- Continuously watch the Scala-scene and improve your knowledge, then spread it though our teams
- Solid software development skills in Scala and multiple other languages
- Developed significant Scala-based services and put them into production
- Not afraid to work professionally with code from others
- Able to give and receive constructive criticism
- Sound and save developing and thinking asynchronous systems
- Experienced with a full web stack, RESTful APIs, touching the front-end when needed
- Able to build services that can be scaled with growing traffic by simply adding instance
- True master of your personal toolset
- A big plus: Experience in the travel IT domain
- Plus: Completed one or more of the Coursera offerings in Scala or Reactive Programming
- Plus: Experience developing E-Commerce systems
- Able to understand complex topics, including business traits, system and user behavior
- Uses modern tools and is generally efficient and test-driven
- True agilist, keen on delivering working software providing value to our customers
- Non-religious about specific systems, frameworks, languages or tools
- Can focus on deliverables and small increments but also not afraid of huge changes
- Proud to show your github.com account, research papers or other interesting achievements
- Good conversational skills in German and English
- Genuinely nice also to Java and JavaScript programmers
If you happen to be a pragmatic, test-driven software craftsman or craftswoman who likes working on the edge of technology, come and help our outstanding, truly agile development teams in Bottighofen, CH.
Please send your concise resume to [email protected]. Make sure to include your github.com account (or similar work samples) in your application.
HolidayCheck is part of HolidayCheck Group AG. We provide nice perks, like employee stock (real stock, not options), free drinks, flexible home office and part time options, subsidized lunch[1] and massages[1], hardware of your choice, free coffee & fruit. We frequently abuse our table soccer, and even have developed our own App to keep score of our Pool Billards[2] matches. There's also ample budget for trainings, toys, conferences and team events. On top of that, you receive discount for our travel offerings.
Please make your resume compatible with the engineers who are reviewing it. Send only one concise document, accurately describe your skill set, your qualifications, your job experience and what you are doing to continuously improve yourself. Do not forget to include your github.com account (or similar) and your salary expectations and your earliest availability and whatever you think makes sense.
Find the most current version of this job ad at github.com/HolidayCheck/jobs
[1] Munich only[2] Bottighofen only