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Staff Software Engineer – Supplying

London
Posted 2 weeks ago

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.

The impact you’ll have:

In the Hotel Supply team the Senior Software Engineer is responsible for delivering key technical products, planning technical initiatives, mentoring more junior members and working closely together with the Lead and Staff Engineers of the team. The Senior Software Engineer should be an expert in the field, while showing maturity in soft skills, empathy, and pragmatism, ultimately allowing the Supply team and therefore Loveholidays to be successful.

Your day-to-day:

Pair-programming to deliver quality technical solutions
Supporting and finding issues with 3rd party APIs and suppliers
Coming up with technical initiatives to improve existing systems
Rebuilding existing systems for improved scalability and performance
Participating and leading agile processes: Daily Standup, Weekly Grooming, Weekly Planning, Bi-Weekly Retrospectives

Your skillset:

You have extensive experience coding in Go and/or Java.
You are an experienced and motivated engineer who consistently leads by example.
You enjoy collaborating with other engineers through pair programming.
You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, software design and technologies to do so.
You have a constant interest in learning more about the latest trends in technology, and want to grow further.

We invest in engineer’s growth and will give you the platform to do it.
You own applications end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production.

Desirable

You have extensive experience coding in Go and Java.
You have experience deploying applications in Kubernetes through Google Cloud.
You have experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
You are comfortable using BigQuery to analyse data to help identify areas of opportunity within the team.
You have knowledge and understanding of the travel sector.

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.

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