Lead - Software Development

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialized 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 Dynamic Holiday Packages.
Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging our technology to simplify, personalize, and
enhance customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers
find and do “whatever makes them pink”.We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our
offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution.
More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and
services to power the entire traveler journey for millions of people.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, development, and deployment of Java/J2EE applications.

• Architect scalable and maintainable systems following best practices.

• Guide the team in adopting modern development techniques, tools, and frameworks.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and architects to align on requirements and design.

• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality, performance, and security standards.

• Troubleshoot and resolve critical issues across environments.

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and estimation.

• Coach and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8–12 years of hands-on Java development experience.

• Strong experience in Java and J2EE technologies.

• Proficiency in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate/JPA.

• Experience with RESTful services, SOAP, and API design.

• Strong hands-on with SQL and relational databases like Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL.

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Cassandra is a plus.

• Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

• Good exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and build tools like Maven/Gradle.

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, Event Driven Architecture, containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of performance tuning and scalable application architecture.

• Strong leadership and team management capabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication.

• Analytical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset.

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.