Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania; hybrid work with at least 3 days per week in the Kaunas office

Salary: €3,330–€6,660 gross monthly, plus approximately 10% yearly bonuses and a Booking Holdings RSU package worth $20,000 gross with possible yearly refreshes.

Company

hirify.global is a Booking Holdings travel search company operating global metasearch brands and a corporate travel solution.

What you will do

• Evolve shared backend platform capabilities, frameworks, and runtime patterns used by engineering teams across the company.
• Shape platform direction around Java code structure, service architecture, and Spring Boot-based services.
• Design CI/CD workflows, pull-request quality gates, and production-ready release practices.
• Contribute to web gateways, multi-cluster deployment, faster pod startup, on-demand test environments, secure service-to-service communication, and AI-driven observability.
• Partner with product engineering teams to translate infrastructure needs into platform improvements.
• Participate in design reviews, share knowledge, and improve technical quality.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, preferably with Java or a similar ecosystem.
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration tools and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Understanding of backend service architecture, API design, and shared engineering platform trade-offs.
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, or production test quality.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, and modern JVM performance practices.
• Familiarity with multi-cluster deployments, zero-trust service communication, Kubernetes-hosted developer environments, or ephemeral test environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Career growth funds and access to thousands of on-demand e-learning courses.
• Additional health insurance, flexible sick time, and financial support during sick and parental leave.
• Annual company-wide winter vacation week, birthday day off, and paid volunteering time.
• Free lunches twice a week, daily office snacks, yoga, therapy sessions, and Headspace subscription.
• No-meeting Fridays, internal communities, and regular office and team events.
• Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.