Senior Java Developer - hybrid working model

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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".</p><p>lastminute.com is the European Travel-Tech leader in the dynamic holiday packages business, uniquely positioned to drive innovation-led growth.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Successful Senior Java Developer will help with maintenance of existing software platforms, design and build web applications, tooling and backend services to meet business needs both for internal and global audiences. They will also cooperate with developers in solving product problems and ensuring high quality of delivered solutions.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Developing new features and functionality in non-legacy web application platforms</li><li>Supporting the team and product owners during product and feature discovery phase </li><li>Preparing software design documents</li><li>Support and maintain dynamic legacy web application platforms</li><li>Performance monitoring and maintenance of backend platform infrastructure</li><li>Strengthen the team in following software quality standards and development best practices </li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>5+ years experience with Java and web applications</li><li>Strong experience with:<ul><li>Java EE</li><li>Kotlin</li><li>the Spring ecosystem, specifically Spring Boot</li><li>Java templating engines (e.g. FreeMarker)</li><li>Data persistence frameworks in Java (e.g. JPA)</li><li>REST</li><li>SQL queries for adding, changing and searching data in databases</li></ul></li><li>Experience with:<ul><li>Kafka</li><li>RabbitMQ</li><li>Multithreading</li><li>Asynchronous programming</li><li>Application monitoring</li><li>Automated build tooling (e.g. Maven)</li><li>Git</li></ul></li><li>Understanding of:<ul><li>GC process in JVM</li><li>CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns</li><li>SQL database design </li></ul></li><li>Ability to apply in practice:<ul><li>SOLID and clean code principles</li><li>TDD</li><li>design patterns, algorithms, data structures</li></ul></li><li>Strong bug fixing skills</li><li>Good communication skills</li><li>Team player</li></ul><p><strong>Desirable </strong></p><ul><li>Experience with OAuth 2.0 and JWT <ul><li>integrating Auht0 by Okta is a huge plus</li></ul></li><li>Understanding of GDPR and user consent management processes</li><li>Experience using modern JavaScript/HTML/CSS and Webpack</li><li>Experience in handling large amounts of data</li><li>Working efficiently with bash and bash scripting</li></ul>