Lead Software Engineer

Why Technology at 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 global leader in packaged holidays. 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 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

Lead Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop 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
• ML-backed marketing optimisation 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

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, providing technical leadership and guidance, understanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term business goals, mentoring and growing your team.

Your Skillset

Proven ability to lead people from a technical and cultural perspective. You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, software design and technologies to do so. You enjoy collaborating with other engineers through pair programming. 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

You have extensive experience coding in Go and Java. You are someone who can identify repetitive processes and transform them into automated solutions using LLMs, or build custom tools and integrations through code to unlock new efficiencies and opportunities. You have experience applying systems thinking to solve complex business and technical problems. You have experience deploying applications in Kubernetes through Google Cloud. You are comfortable using BigQuery to analyse data to help identify areas of opportunity within the team. You have knowledge and understanding of the travel sector.

The Interview Journey

TA screening - 30 mins, 1st stage - Introduction - 45 mins, Coding challenge - take home test or pairing, 2nd stage - SRE - 45 mins, 2nd stage - Cultural fit - 45 mins.

Perks Of Joining Us

Company pension contributions at 5%.