Job Description
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.
About the Performance Marketing Team
We are launching a new cross functional team of software engineers, data engineers and data scientists to tackle the complex domain of performance marketing. We have ambitious plans around scaling our automated bidding, reporting and attribution systems, and weÂ’re looking for an experienced motivated Lead Engineer to build this team and lead them to success.
What you’ll be working on
Owning and evolving data pipelines responsible for modelling marketing costs and returns across numerous channels and platforms
Build performance marketing data products in our Data Mesh
Scaling the usage of our automated bid management, including improving internal configuration tooling
Working closely with commercial stakeholders to refine our roadmap and vision for the performance marketing capabilities of our platform
Working closely with the Data Engineering and Data Science teams and participating in architectural design discussions as they evolve their platforms
Leading a team of talented engineers and data scientists, fostering their growth and ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions and operational excellence
Your skillset
You are an experienced and motivated lead engineer who is excited about building products in cross functional teams to realise business outcomes
You have extensive experience in data and analytical engineering tools and frameworks, such as Bigquery, Airflow, dbt, Spark, Monte Carlo and Looker
You enjoy collaborating across engineering and commercial teams to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge with others and levelling up your team
You own applications end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production with tools such as Prometheus and Loki
You have experience working with cloud computing, such as GCP or AWS
You have experience or keen interest in the performance marketing space, including tag management, bid optimisation, ETL processes, and building data products and reporting based on 3rd party and internal data.
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.
To apply for this job please visit careers.loveholidays.com.
