Senior Software Engineer

Why Engineering @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 an exciting new chapter, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. We actively talk about technology https://tech.loveholidays.com/ and adhere to our key technology principles https://tech.loveholidays.com/the-5-principles-that-helped-scale-loveholidays-7ea0b0fd3df9 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 https://tech.loveholidays.com/.

Or our open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley http://github.com/loveholidays/ripley
• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook http://github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook
• github.com/loveholidays/po-test http://github.com/loveholidays/po-test

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 https://tech.loveholidays.com/the-5-principles-that-helped-scale-loveholidays-7ea0b0fd3df9
• 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
• Observability
• Web services, REST, HTTP
• Containers, cloud
• Testing, reliability, monitoring
• Strong knowledge in building and owning application end-to-end, from inception to maintenance, to retirement
• Designing systems that scale
• Expertise in some of our main programming languages - TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python

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:

• TA screening - 30 mins
• 1st Stage - Introduction - 45 mins
• Coding challenge - take home test or live pairing
• 2nd Stage - 3 hours

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.