Mid-Level Java Backend Developer

We’re looking for a mid-level Java developer to join our backend team at Byway. You'll be working on building our first-of-its-kind flight-free Journey AI technology. Your code will make a direct and visible difference to our team and customers daily. You’ll report directly to our backend team lead Chris Smith, and work closely with the rest of the tech team, our CTO Rich Levy and across the business.

At Byway, we're pioneering 100% flight-free holidays with Journey AI, the world’s first tech for journey-based trips. We’re a certified B Corp committed to making flight-free travel mainstream. Since our inception in March 2020, we've booked 10,000 travellers onto unforgettable holidays, with 96% of five-star reviews. We’re growing 2-3x YoY and are regularly featured in the press, including the Guardian, BBC, and New York Times.

Your key responsibilities will include building and developing our Journey AI technology for flight-free holidays, working directly in our infrastructure layer, interacting with transport and accommodation providers and taking responsibility for third party API integrations. You will also participate in the product development process from start to finish, from helping scope stories & projects to measuring their success and iterating based on user feedback.

We’re looking for someone with significant experience writing high quality multi-threaded code in Java 11/14/17/21 using Spring Boot & JPA (or similar frameworks), experience calling both JSON/REST and XML/SOAP APIs, and experience in working with SQL and writing complex queries. A strong mathematical and/or computer science background and passing familiarity with Travelling Salesman, Knapsack and similar computational problems is also required.

We offer a £55-65k salary, depending on experience, remote-first, flexible working, 80 hours whenever: flexi-working across two week periods, 20 days wherever: work when you like and where you like for most of the month, 2 days together: join us in London two days each month including our monthly social, a funded day a week in a co-working space, one cost-price Byway holiday per year and agency rates with Eurostar for you and your family/friends, 33 holidays days a year (including bank holidays) and an optional extra two days if you travel flight free with Climate Perks, and an annual Away Afternoon and optional Weekend Away.

This role is a remote first, hybrid role with 2 days per month in the office in London. You must have the legal right to work in the UK/EU and be able to get to the office flight-free for the 2 days. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

Please apply here with your CV and a short covering letter. We’re eager to receive applications from all backgrounds, including from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.