Technology Architect en Madrid

lastminute.com group is a publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry, and we operate a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Bravofly, Rumbo, Volagratis and Jetcost.

Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 43 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.

We are looking for brilliant people, not for a list of skills. While reading key responsibilities of the role, please consider that we value attitude more than your expertise. Are you curious and passionate about working in a constantly evolving and challenging international environment? Even if  you don’t feel to fit the role 100%, please apply: put your willingness to learn and we will grow together!

Key Responsibilities will include

• Work closely with engineers, product owners to bring the best value to our travellers.

• Design and develop high-quality software by using a range of practices like TDD, Clean Code, simple design etc

• Be a member of an autonomous, cross-location agile team.

• Effectively communicate with all stakeholders, both writing documentation (if required) and having in-depth technical discussions.

• Design and work proficiently with applications that servers millions of requests per day.

• Learn from colleagues and share your knowledge

• Contribute in the R&D of the company stack, proposing effective solutions

• Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications

Skills and Experience

Essential

This is a senior position: you have some years of experience in writing code and mentoring / coaching teams.

• Strong experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO/FP languages but preferably in Java.

• Familiar with the design and deliver of scalable applications, capable to serve millions of requests/sec.

• Problem solving capabilities

• Positive and collaborative attitude

• Willingness to work inside a team

• Curiosity and passion for continuous improvement

• Customer orientation

• Knowledge of Spanish and English

• Open for travel

What We Offer

• Working in an international agile environment using eXtreme Programming

• Bleeding edge technology stack (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Vert.x, ReactJS, React Native and more ...)

• Continuous learning program with internal workshops and courses

• Possibility to join conferences around Europe for continuous improvement

• Coding Dojo: a weekly training to learn and share coding techniques during office hours

• Internal technical conference (technical lunch)

• Flexible working hours

• Remote work (up to 2 days per week)

• Possibility to join the Erasmus program (temporary relocation among our offices)

• Preferential prices reserving through our platform

• Discounts from external partners

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can generally expect a hiring process similar to the following one (please consider that based on location and availability the process can be slightly modified)

• Qualified candidates receive feedback concerning their application from our Recruiting team

• Based on role and experience, candidate might be requested to solve a coding exercise to submit on a public repository on Github. Exercise will be assessed by our internal Engineering team

• Onsite Coding interview: a coding exercise to solve together pairing with our Engineering team in your favourite programming language

• Onsite Technical interview: 1 hour talk about technical stuff, experiences and analyzing possible production scenarios

You’ll have the opportunity to meet our technical leaders and understand a little bit more about our continuous learning environment!