Senior Software Engineer - Checkout

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:

The Checkout team owns a crucial part of the customer experience when booking their perfect holiday. We own and optimise a checkout platform that is responsible for providing customers with ease and choice when customising their package holiday, as well as providing exhaustive data insights to the business on user and platform behaviour.

Engineers on the team are responsible for leading product and technical initiatives, helping to ideate and build experiments, and mentoring others in their areas of expertise.

Your day-to-day:

• Extending and optimising our checkout platform, integrating with live supplier APIs during checkout to provide the best choice to our customers.
• Building server driven UIs that can be changed without engineering involvement to enable different parts of the business to optimise the platform.
• Work across our stack - from optimising the ultra-fast performance of our app, to deploying GraphQL changes, to working with BigQuery and our Data Mesh, to rolling out new services to serve our customers like hotel recommendations.
• The team primarily uses Preact, Typescript, GraphQL, Node, and Java. However we employ many different languages across our teams and encourage engineers to work across the entire stack and use the right tool for the job - from our Kubernetes infrastructure to our Rust edge platform.

Your skillset:

• You are an experienced and motivated engineer who is excited about building products in cross functional teams to deliver a best-in-class buying experience to our consumers.
• You enjoy collaborating across teams to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge with others. You consistently lead by example, and inspire and mentor up-and-coming engineers
• You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, data modelling, software design and technologies to do so
• Applying a product mindset, you solve for end users first, with technology being a means to an end
• You have a constant interest in learning more about the latest trends in the wider industry, and want to grow further. We strive to support engineers in their 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 with tools such as Prometheus and Loki

Desirable

• You’ve worked in a team with a “you build it, you run it” ethos before
• You have extensive experience working in at least one of our team’s core languages/frameworks. We are looking for strong engineers who are keen to learn and grow their full stack skills.
• You are a product engineer, interested in solving business problems and see technology as a means to an end.

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.