Position: Senior Scala Developer in product European company
Company: Data Science UA
Category: Scala
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**Lastminute.com** - is a product company.  Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised 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 part of lm group, publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

**Main stack:** Java, Kotlin, Scala, Big data, React, PHP, GCP
**Location: **Chiasso, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich  or **REMOTE**

**lastminute.com **is looking for a **Senior Data Engineer / Senior Scala Developer **for its Data Platform Team based in Chiasso.

The candidate will have the possibility to work in a challenging environment, designing and implementing data-intensive applications and solutions, contributing to the improvement and the reliability of the Company's data platform, leveraging their programming and data solutions design skills.

**Preferred qualifications
**
**Essential
**🔸  Comfortable developing Scala application from scratch
🔸  Solid knowledge of the big data ecosystem: tooling, data serialisation formats, data pipelines and data modelling
🔸  Experience with cloud platforms 
🔸  Basic knowledge of Linux administration and system tools


**Desirable
**** Previous experience with: 
**🔸  Scala writing data intensive applications from scratch
🔸 Google Cloud Data Tools (Pub/Sub, DataFlow, Cloud Storage, ...)
🔸Functional Programming patterns
🔸  Akka libraries
🔸  MPP databases
🔸  Building distributed systems from the ground up

**Key Responsibilities
**✅     Develop data-intensive applications using the Scala language
✅     Develop/improve data pipelines, ensuring code quality and performance, applying engineering best practices.
✅     Collaborate with other teams to help them design data solutions
✅     Support the architectural design and evolution of the Data Platform

**Basic guarantees & Social package: 
**🔥Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
🔥Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
🔥Benefit from employee discounts on travel
🔥Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
🔥Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
🔥Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
🔥Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
🔥Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave

**Opportunity for advanced training:
**🔥Continuous learning program with technical internal sessions
🔥Access to online learning platform like O’Reilly 
🔥Possibility to join conferences around Europe for continuous improvement.