Junior Software Engineer – Trainee

The Company

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

We are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller’s journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are passionate about building scalable systems, and writing quality code, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.

Job Description

The job in brief:

Job Title - Junior Software Engineer – Trainee

Working model - hybrid from Chiasso

Team - you will join the Core Services team within the Technology department.

Level – Trainee

Location - Chiassio, Switzerland

Contract - Internship – full-time (EUR 36 h/week)

A 6-month internship period, with the possibility of extension

What Your Impact Will Be

As a junior software engineer you will be part of the team responsible for multiple horizontal applications and frameworks, that power our entire engineering organization. Some of their realms are: our own Java tech stack framework (based on Spring), event tracking, distributed user session, software change management, applications authorization, rules engines.

Main Objectives

• Understand how our business works and how products add value to our customers.
• Collaborate to design, write, and test high-quality software by learning a range of best practices like TDD, DDD, Clean Code, and SOLID Principles
• Develop resilient, secure, and performant applications, able to serve even millions of requests per day
• Learn to define technical solutions for new features, together with architects, SREs, and senior engineers
• Embrace our agile mindset, leveraging our CI/CD ecosystem
• Contribute to the quality of the delivery
• Start interacting with business and product stakeholders