Java Technical Lead - Travel Sector (London Area)

Java Technical Lead – Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, CI/CD – Travel Sector

Outstanding opportunity to join this global travel company in a ‘hands on’ technical lead role with some design & architecture responsibility. At the core of this business is a global, distributed, high availability, microservices based platform for online booking and the associated millions of transactions and this role leads the team that develops and maintains it.

This role will suit a Senior Engineer with team leadership and design experience coming from a small to medium-sized company, who can operate creatively, in a highly agile fashion and in a less structured environment. There is a huge opportunity to shape the technical direction of the platform. You’ll require the following skills:

• 2+ years’ design & architecture experience of scalable, high-availability platforms for enterprise applications

• 5+ years’ software development experience with Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL and Linux

• Extensive experience of Microservices and Distributed Systems

• Experience working in the travel, airline or GDS sectors

• Experience leading teams of 3-5 developers (inc. code reviews, mentoring, best practices)

• Extensive experience of scalable systems, CI/CD, DevOps and Test Automation

• Experience of Agile practices and Domain Driven Design (DDD)

• Experience evaluating and implementing new frameworks and technologies

• A willingness to travel to Cyprus 1 week in every 6 (the rest remote)

• Good spoken & written English

• A Computer Science or related Engineering Degree

• Passionate about creating a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement

£80,000 to £90,000 per annum + benefits. London & 90% remote.