Solution Architect

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.

What your impact will be

• Being a member of an autonomous, cross-location 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.

• 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.

• Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending (and sharing) in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and testing new applications or solutions

Your expertise

• 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.

• 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.

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.