Software Engineer

lastminute.com; Mendrisio; Hybrid; CHF 80’000 - 120’000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading digital travel company in Switzerland seeks a proactive Product Engineer who thrives on ownership and collaboration. The role demands solid software engineering experience and a passion for AI-driven solutions. You will work tirelessly to create scalable solutions for millions of users while mentoring junior engineers and driving the agile culture. Ideal candidates are data-driven problem solvers fluent in English and eager to foster innovation and continuous improvement in a dynamic tech-driven environment.

Leistungen

Shorter working week (36h) with half-day Fridays

Flexibility in working hours

Professional development training access

Travel industry discounts

Qualifikationen

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer with skills in object-oriented programming.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Curious with a growth mindset focused on continuous improvement.

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with Product Manager to understand business needs.
• Own solution quality and performance.
• Mentor junior colleagues to enhance team expertise.

Kenntnisse

Object-oriented or functional programming

Experience with JVM languages (Java/Kotlin)

Agile mindset

AI understanding

Collaboration and communication

Tools

Spring

.NET

C / C++

Go

React

Jobbeschreibung

We are a digital travel company with tech at its core. Were looking for proactive and motivated problem-solvers who embrace end-to-end responsibility for building delivering monitoring and evolving valuable products.

Were not just looking for coders. We need engineers who are interested in understanding the why behind every request take full ownership of their work and can leverage technical organizational and interpersonal skills to achieve results. We want curious people who are driven by continuous improvement and focused on creating tangible results that provide value to the business and our customers not just on completing tasks. We believe in the transformative power of AI and are looking for someone who shares this vision eager to explore and implement AI-driven solutions across our entire business.

As a Product Engineer your impact will extend far beyond the code you write. You will be a key player in an agile team involved in building scalable and resilient platforms to serve millions of customers worldwide. From day one youll experience our growing-sharing culture with ample opportunities to improve existing products and bring new ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager and stakeholders to understand business needs and identify the right technological solutions.
• Take full ownership of your solutions quality performance and reliability.
• Proactively work with architects other teams and stakeholders to unblock activities and ensure an efficient cost-effective end-to-end delivery.
• Actively contribute to the teams technical growth by mentoring more junior colleagues and sharing your knowledge to help the entire engineering community grow.
• Challenge the status quo propose and create proofs of concept for new technologies and actively work to improve processes tools and architectures.
• Actively seek opportunities to leverage AI tools and technologies to boost individual and team productivity automate business processes and develop new customer-facing features.

Qualifications

You have solid experience as a Software Engineer with strong skills in object-oriented or functional programming preferably in a JVM language like Java or Kotlin.

You consistently apply best practices like Clean Code SOLID principles and have a true Agile mindset.

You’re a data-driven problem-solver who can analyze business needs and translate them into effective technical solutions.

You embrace AI as a powerful tool understanding how to apply it to your work effectively without losing sight of its limitations and the importance of human oversight.

You thrive on collaboration proactively communicating with team members (including the Product Manager) and stakeholders to drive projects forward.

You are a mentor by nature eager to share your knowledge and help others grow.

You are a curious person with a growth mindset constantly seeking ways to improve both yourself and the team.

You are fluent in both written and spoken English.

Bonus points if you have experience in a product-focused company are familiar with XP practices and DDD approach have some FE experience.

This role is probably not for you if...

• You prefer to receive tasks without caring about the business context or customer value.
• You prefer working in isolation over collaborating with a cross-functional team.
• You are not at all interested in mentoring or actively participating in the technical growth of your colleagues.
• You are reluctant to challenge existing processes propose or test new ways of working.
• You are not fluent in English which is essential for our global team environment.

Additional Information

How we work together

• An inclusive friendly and international environment (youll be working with colleagues from 10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
• Shorter working week (36h as full time) with a half working day on Fridays
• Note : delete reference for open roles in FR and India
• Flexible start and end of the working day
• you can add : with core hours from 10 : 00 to 4 : 00 pm
• Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

How we learn together

• Fri-Yays : half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work personal growth learning and training and / or focus time.
• Professional and managerial skills development training paths access to e-learning platforms such as Oreilly Udemy Coursera (depending on the department) and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other

• 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
• Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
• Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
• We support our employees through lifes significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities marriages bereavements relocations etc.) in line with local laws.

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Selection process steps

We believe a good hiring process is a two-way street. Its a chance for us to learn about you and for you to understand if were the right fit for your career.

Heres what you can expect

• Initial Review: Our recruitment team will carefully review your application and share their feedback with you.
• HR Conversation: We'll have an in-depth discussion about your technical background your experiences and how you approach real-world scenarios.

Behavioural interview

• Technical exercise 7 calendar days to complete!

Technical Interview

Feedback: You’ll receive timely feedback from our recruitment team following the interviews.

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to 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.

Eligibility criteria

By submitting your information and application you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.

Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1