Why loveholidays?

The work we do in engineering underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe, providing a best-in-class experience for our customers pre- and post-booking. We work using our principles in highly-aligned, autonomous cross functional product teams and own the customer journey.

We are always looking to push the boundaries of what we can do with technology to drive an incredible customer experience. Our systems process 755 billion holiday offers every day, helping millions of customers find their perfect holiday. Our website serves 7,500 requests per second, backed by more than 100 services hosted on GCP to which we deploy 1500 times a month. 

About the department

The Selling department at loveholidays is made up of the teams responsible for building products for customers across web and native apps, and the APIs that underpin them, with a focus on optimising find-ability, conversion and margin. We are focused on using the right technology and great design to build an holiday booking experience that is fun, easy and fast.

What you’ll be working on:

• Extending and optimising our industry checkout platform, integrating with live supplier APIs during checkout to provide the best choice to our customers.

• Building server driven UIs that can be changed without engineering involvement to enable different parts of the business to optimise the platform.

• Work across our stack - from optimising the ultra-fast performance of our app, to deploying GraphQL changes, to working with BigQuery and our Data Mesh, to rolling out new services to serve our customers like hotel recommendations.

• The team primarily uses Java, Node, Typescript, GraphQL and Preact. However we employ many different languages across our teams and encourage engineers to work across the entire stack and use the right tool for the job - from our Kubernetes infrastructure to our Rust edge platform.

• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be a champion for technical quality and architecture within the team, and will lead the team and department by example when solving complex technical and customer challenges.

What we’re looking for

• You are an experienced and motivated engineer who is excited about building products in cross functional teams to deliver a best-in-class buying experience to our consumers.

• You enjoy collaborating across teams to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge with others. You consistently lead by example, and inspire and mentor up-and-coming engineers

• You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, data modelling, software design and technologies to do so

• Applying a product mindset, you solve for end users first, with technology being a means to an end

• You have a constant interest in learning more about the latest trends in the product engineering space, and want to grow further. We strive to support engineers in their growth and will give you the platform to do it

• You own applications end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production with tools such as Prometheus and Loki