Ryanair Holdings plc, Europe’s largest airline group, is the parent company of Buzz, Lauda Europe, Malta Air & Ryanair DAC.

Carrying 154m guests p.a. on more than 2,400 daily flights from 82 bases, the group connects over 200 destinations in 40 countries on a fleet of over 470 aircraft, with a further 210 Boeing 737s on order, which will enable the Ryanair Group to lower fares and grow traffic to 200m p.a. by FY25.

Ryanair Labs is the technology brand of Ryanair, a tech startup within an airline, with offices in Dublin, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto and Wroclaw.

With big plans to digitally revolutionise the travel industry, Ryanair Labs has embarked on its mission to become the Amazon of Travel with an encompassing Trip's platform.

Ryanair Labs is dedicated to hiring top IT talent, where software developers can have the freedom to work on game changing projects that will have an impact on our business and on more than 150m people a year.

The Role

We are looking for talented BackEnd developers to join our new digital development team. In this role you will work closely with our development and product team to develop, modify and support our applications, website and user interfaces across all channels. We want someone who is motivated by emerging technologies and has a passion to drive digital transformation. A real desire to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment is essential. You will be joining Ryanair at an exciting time with an ambitious roadmap to become digital leaders and pioneers.

Your mission with us

• Developing high quality, testable and performant software with unit/integration testing.
• Write end to end solutions for web-based applications, create robust high-volume production applications and develop prototypes quickly.
• Release your software with a DevOps culture through software release management techniques including continuous integration and delivery.
• Being up to date with the latest technologies and developments in the software industry.
• Learn and work with cutting edge technologies and solutions within a high performing team.
• Collaborate in an Agile fast paced development environment.

• Proficient with practical experience in Java or other JVM languages (e.g Scala, Kotlin)
• Experience and keen interest in designing scalable distributed systems, preferably on cloud services (e.g AWS, Azure)
• Exposure to serverless architecture (e.g. Go lang) using event driven approach will be a plus
• Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful services will be a plus
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, SAM, Ansible)
• Familiar with CQRS or Event Sourcing concepts will be a plus
• Practical knowledge of web application frameworks (e.g Spring)
• Experience in reactive programming will be a plus
• Good knowledge of development tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle, Git)
• Self-standing and strong problem-solving with analytical skills
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a fast paced commercial environment

Our technology stack

Java, Go, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring projects, AWS, AWS services (f.e. DynamoDB, EC2, Lambda, ElasticSearch, RDS, SQS, SNS, Cloudformation), Couchbase, MySQL, Redis, Ansible, Docker