Software Engineer
Why loveholidays?
At loveholidays, 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.
About the team
loveholidays engineering’s role 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 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.
The impact you’ll have:
Foster innovation through continuous improvement of our web infrastructure services, utilising a variety of programming languages such as TypeScript and Rust, with a focus on enhancing performance and impacting various aspects of the business.
Your day-to-day:
Develop and maintain scalable web infrastructure that supports high availability and robust performance.
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment and monitoring, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and efficient.
Your skillset:
You are a motivated engineer who is excited about building products to deliver a best-in-class modern web experience to consumers.
You enjoy collaborating with team members to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge and learning with others.
You would like to work on building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, 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 want to have an even deeper understanding of web applications and the surrounding ecosystem. We strive to support engineers in their growth and will give you the platform to do it.
Desirable
Previous experience with Web engineering.
GCP, GKE, Kubernetes.
Experience working with Grafana.
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.
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.
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.
- Team
- Tech - Engineering
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Locations
- London - UK
London - UK
About loveholidays
At loveholidays, 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. We are a super fast growing travel-tech business who have been on an amazing journey from start-up to scale out - with over 400 people, and selling amazing holidays to over 4 million passengers across UK, Ireland and Germany!
We have big ambitions over the next 5 years - with a vision to be Europe’s #1 holiday provider. Come join us on this exciting journey!
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