[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @Loveholidays

Role Description

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
• 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

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead people from a technical and cultural perspective
• Proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, software design and technologies
• Enjoy collaborating with other engineers through pair programming
• Strong knowledge in building and owning application end-to-end, from inception to maintenance, to retirement
• Expertise in some of our main programming languages - TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python

Requirements

• Observability
• Web services, REST, HTTP
• Containers, cloud
• Testing, reliability, monitoring
• Designing systems that scale

Desirable

• Extensive experience coding in Go and Java
• Ability to identify repetitive processes and transform them into automated solutions using LLMs, or build custom tools and integrations through code
• Experience deploying applications in Kubernetes through Google Cloud
• Comfortable using BigQuery to analyse data to help identify areas of opportunity within the team
• Knowledge and understanding of the travel sector

Benefits

• 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), increasing by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum of 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