The Opportunity:


As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas. The eCommerce team is looking for a talented software engineer to join a team building a secure, robust, ecommerce system. This core infrastructure powers the day-to-day vacation rental management activities of customers with mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences. This is the main entry point for our system where billions of dollars flow through each year. You will have the opportunity to optimize the system, improve efficiency, improve software quality, and improve our user’s experiences.

Responsibilities:


- Participate in the entire software lifecycle from planning, requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, and testing through documentation.


- Work on large scale distributed applications building and operating highly available systems.


- Investigate technical problems, determine resolutions and exercise your debugging skills.


- Work on Java/open-source web application development: Java, Spring, REST, Git, RabbitMQ, Maven, ESS, and more.


- Be a strong advocate for testing (Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, etc...).


- Exercise strong software process skills including issue tracking, effort estimation, Agile/Scrum ideas, and code reviews to list a few.


- Work and collaborate closely with a highly competent team in an Agile environment.

Desired Qualifications:


- Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.


- 9+ years overall software development experience with demonstrated experience delivering large scale web applications.


- Results oriented, self managed individual - proven track record of delivering on estimates with minimal oversight.


- Leads by example in all aspects of software development - simple, elegant, scalable, well-tested, documented.


- Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including QA, DB, product marketing, and finance.

- Ecommerce experience a huge plus.


- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Technologies at HomeAway include: - Cassandra, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Samza, Kafka, Mesos, Splunk and Hunk, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Direct Connect), Java/EE applications, Linux CentOS.

Benefits:


- Great Medical & Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSUs)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our leadership team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Electric adjustable stand up desk
- Casual dress code