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 the European Travel-Tech leader in the dynamic holiday packages business, uniquely positioned to drive innovation-led growth.

Every month, lastminute.com 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.

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Key Responsibilities

• Being a member of an autonomous, cross-location core architecture team to work on defining  best practices and standards.
• You are responsible for making the impact of changes clear, and ensuring a sound design and approach.
• Balance the need to go fast in the short term with the need to go fast in the long term.
• You work side-by-side with other architects, product/engineering managers, technology leads and individual contributors of varying degrees of seniority, to collaborate for solutions, decision making and leading by example.
• Anticipate and act upon issues that arise, providing alternative approaches and solutions.
• Evaluate and create new tools and techniques to facilitate effective development and architectural practices.
• Communicate a clear vision of how the technology can be optimally applied to products.
• Set the standard for highest quality of work. Lead by example and be proactive in raising concerns as soon as they are observed.
• Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending (and sharing) in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and testing new applications or solutions

Skills and Experience

Essentials

• Bachelor or master degree in Computer Science, proven experience in successfully completing development of two or more complex applications or technologies, or equivalent applicable experience.
• Strong experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO/FP languages but preferably in JVM: Java, Scala or Kotlin. Also designing or implementing API best practices as well as using design and architectural patterns.
• Self-motivated; works independently.
• Good exposure or migrating services/solutions to public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP… ).
• Strong communication skills, especially in representing their expertise to a wide range of people. Forges relationships with development personnel throughout the industry.
• Expert in current software design practices, including modularity, event-driven architecture, functional programming, microservices, object-oriented design, optimization, extensibility, and testability. Stays abreast of industry innovations and developments.
• Excellent analysis, project planning, and schedule estimating skills as applied to multi-person projects.  Ability to anticipate and resolve project roadblocks

Desirable

• Previous working experience in a startup or product company with high traffic experience. 
• Previous experience on working in a centralised architecture function is a plus.
• Domain Driven Design is a Plus.

Abilities/qualities

• Enthusiastic about company and engineering company products. Willing to Generates, enhances, and promotes ideas for useful new projects and technologies.
• Listens a lot. Ask questions to seek clarity. Take the floor when they have information, experience, or perspective to share. Communicates impediments as they arise.
• Learning from colleagues and sharing your knowledge

About the team

Our international product team combines user-centricity with an entrepreneurial mindset to create great products and reach our business goals. Our culture is to support each other, challenge ourselves and others, improve and help each other grow.

If you think we’re a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying for the position.

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
• 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
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
• Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events