Senior Software Engineer
Why loveholidays?
At loveholidays - we trailblaze together . We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.
Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe. We drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Our systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, we deploy over a thousand times a month, serving thousands of requests per second. This is where you can accelerate your growth by solving complex challenges and broadening your skillset.
Join us to create impact for our future in a new growth phase, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. We actively talk about technology and adhere to our key technology principles that have guided us this far. We are growing and have ambitious plans to expand across Europe , employing the best minds and technology to let us do this.About the team
Engineering at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe by providing a best in class experience to customers pre and post booking. Our systems process trillions of holiday offers daily to help millions of customers find their perfect holiday. Our website, backed by services hosted on GCP to which we deploy more than a thousand times a month, serves thousands of requests per second.
We actively talk about technology and adhere to our key technology principles that have guided us this far. We are growing and have ambitious plans to expand across Europe, employing the best minds and technology to let us do this.
The impact you’ll have:
Senior Software Engineers at loveholidays have strong expertise in:
Supplier integration systems that process vast amounts of data
Industry leading bespoke, high performance search and recommendation systems
Sophisticated real time pricing systems
Complex domain modelling and implementation of booking payment, fulfilment and management systems
AI-powered solutions to assist customers pre and post booking
Best in class, modern user experience through web and mobile applications
For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts .
Or our open source contributions:
As part of our tech culture we continuously improve our time to delivery, reducing errors and generally leaving things better than you found them.
Your day-to-day:
Adoption of our engineering principles
Building and running services at scale in the cloud
Collaborating with engineers, designers, product managers within and outside of the team
Implementing maintainable and well-tested solutions iteratively, keeping business impact and observability as a primary focus
Understanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term business goals
Your skillset:
Algorithms, data structures
Strong technical knowledge in observability
Web services, REST,
Containers, cloud
Testing, reliability, monitoring
Strong knowledge in building and owning application end-to-end, from inception to maintenance, to retirement
Strong analytical skills
Professional communication skills in architecture design
Expertise in one of the programming languages and paradigms - our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python and others
Desirable
- Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, NoSQL or GCP
Perks of joining us:
Company pension contributions at 5%.
Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.
Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.
25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.
Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.
The interview journey:
1st stage interview with two engineers from the team.
Tech challenge - you can choose between a live and take home option.
Final stage - consisting of discussions around three key areas.
At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.
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