Why Engineering @ loveholidays? 

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

Lead Software Engineers at loveholidays are the technical owners of:

• 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

Lead Software Engineers are responsible for their team’s engineers’ line management and career progression.

For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts:

• Optimising load testing in production

• Optimising Node.js Application Performance

• Reducing MTTD and increasing observability with Linkerd at loveholidays

Or our open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley

• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook

• github.com/loveholidays/po-test

Your day-to-day

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be responsible for:

• The application of our engineering principles by your team

• Building and running services at scale in the cloud

• Measurably improving your team’s productivity

• Support and career development for your team

• Collaborating with other members of the loveholidays technical leadership team

• Effectively communicating your team’s technical direction to stakeholders

• Recruitment for your team

Your skillset

• A proven track record of building and operating distributed web systems at scale

• Algorithms, data structures

• Performance, scalability

• Web services, REST, HTTP

• Containers, cloud

• Testing, reliability, monitoring

• Mentoring, supporting and measurably improving engineering teams

• Expertise in several programming languages and paradigms - our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python and others

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.