Principal Software Engineer (also available for hybrid working model)

  • Full-time
  • Department: Technology

Company Description

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment of inclusion across race, gender, age sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.
 

Job Description

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* Please note that this is a full remote working position

We are a digital travel company, with tech at its core, currently looking for motivated problem-solvers who will embrace the end-to-end responsibility of building,delivering and evolving relevant products.

 As Principal software engineer in lastminute.com, you will work in our Product Engineering team and directly impact the lives of a global population of travellers. You will be involved in building and developing our own scalable and resilient platforms to support an ever growing number of customers. From the first day with us, you’ll experience working in a company with a “growing-sharing culture” with a lot of opportunities to improve existing products, bring new ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities

  • Take part in the entire products lifecycle and strategy (concept, design, test, release and support), collaborating with product managers and other engineers to create the best experience for our customers within our next-generation products 
  • Development cycle main responsibility - 70% of software engineering tasks 
  • Create, maintain, and implement the source code of our products that meet the needs and requirements of our products and customers using a range of practises like TDD, DDD, Clean Code or SOLID Principles
  • Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending (and sharing) in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and testing new applications or solutions
  • Understanding how our business works and how products add value to our customers
  • Understand how technology impacts our business and could be an enabler for our success
  • Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products
  • Be responsible for the quality of the delivery 
  • Be responsible for the performance, reliability and scalability
  • Collaborating and sharing knowledge with others across the group  to solve complex problems to deliver end-to-end solutions
  • Mentor other engineers and be for them a point of reference

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

The Expertise You Have

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO/FP languages but preferably in JVM: Java or Kotlin 
  • Proven microservices architecture
  • Previous experience working with Clean code, SOLID principles and Agile mindset
  • Strong analytical skills an ability to take decision based on data
  • Experience working in a development  team using agile and extreme programming methodologies
  • Prior experience mentoring and coaching teammates in a collaborative and team-based organisation
  • Analyse issues from multiple perspectives involving all relevant parties in identifying alternative solutions and making a decision
  • Positive and collaborative attitude
  • Growth mindset
  • Fluency in English both written and spoken
  • Previous working experience in startup or product company is a plus
  • Previous experience with XP practises is a plus

Skills You Bring

  • Passion, for creating amazing customer experiences on our product using your strong understanding of data and business needs
  • Business Acumen: The ability to take a ‘big picture view of a situation, to weigh it up quickly, make a logical, sound decision confidently, and influence others to agree with you in order to have a positive impact towards achieving the objectives of the organisation
  • Analytical mindset: able to evaluate methods for collecting data, comparing available resources and drawing logical conclusions
  • Customer Approach and critical thinking
  • Product Thinking: the ability to contribute to the creation of company roadmaps and ensuing feedback. Simplifies product and technical design through proactive conversations.

Additional Information

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
  • Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
  • Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events

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