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:

At loveholidays, our content systems power a comprehensive travel platform that guides customers through their holiday planning journey. From AI-enhanced hotel descriptions to destination guides, concept-based landing pages, and detailed FAQs, we create and manage content that helps customers discover exactly what they're looking for. The Web Infrastructure team develops and maintains these content management capabilities, improving our customers' experience through AI-powered content generation and smart translation systems. We're advancing how travel content is managed at scale while building systems that support our international expansion.

The Senior Software Engineer will shape the future of our content capabilities. You'll work on enhancing our content management system, building automation for content generation and translation, and developing scalable solutions that power our growth into new markets. This role puts you at the center of our efforts to deliver high-quality, localised content that helps customers find their perfect holiday.

Your day-to-day:

• Design and implement AI-powered content enhancement pipelines for hotel descriptions, facilities, and classifications.

• Develop and maintain our scalable, self-serve content management system in Sanity.

• Automate content management and translation processes across multiple languages and markets.

• Build and enhance tools for efficient content reuse and internationalisation.

• Collaborate with content teams to streamline their workflows and implement new features.

• Support the development of data products and reporting for content operations.

• Supporting other teams in scaling content models for reuse and internationalisation.

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.

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

• Strong focus on solving user problems and delivering business value through technology.

• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and innovation.

Desirable

• Proven experience in building and maintaining content management systems at scale (Sanity experience is a plus).

• Strong understanding of content modeling, internationalisation, and localisation principles.

• Experience with modern CMS platforms.

• Experience with automation and content workflow optimisation.

• Hands-on experience with generative AI models for content generation and enhancement.

• Experience with content optimisation and SEO.

• Background in developing multilingual content systems.

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.