Junior Software Engineer - Data Platform

loveholidays; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online travel agency is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to their innovative data platform. You will work on real-time pricing systems, AI-powered solutions, and enhance user experiences through web and mobile applications. This role offers growth opportunities in a collaborative environment with a focus on technology and personal development.

Benefits

Company pension contributions at 5%

Individualised training budget

Discounted holidays

25 days of holidays per annum

Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Eye care vouchers

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Familiarity with web services, REST, and HTTP.
• Eagerness to learn programming languages like TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the design and maintenance of a petabyte-scale data platform.
• Assisting with supplier integration systems.
• Participating in the development of search and recommendation systems.

Skills

Algorithms and Data Structures

Web Services

REST

HTTP

Containers

Cloud Environments

Testing

Reliability

Monitoring Practices

Programming Languages

Job description

Why Technology atloveholidays?

At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. 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.

Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe. We drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Our systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, we deploy over a thousand times a month, serving thousands of requests per second. This is where you can accelerate your growth by solving complex challenges and broadening your skillset.

Join us to create impact for our future in an exciting new chapter, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. 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 team

Data Engineering is at the heart of loveholidays' data-driven culture, building and managing our petabyte-scale data platform. We provide self-service tooling for ingesting, transforming, and discovering data, making data a first-class citizen across the organisation.

The impact you’ll have:

Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop expertise in:

• Contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of our petabyte-scale data platform.

• Assisting with supplier integration systems that process data.

• Participating in the development and maintenance of search and recommendation systems.

• Working on components of real-time pricing systems.

• Contributing to domain modeling and the implementation of booking, payment, fulfillment, and management systems.

• Supporting the development of AI-powered solutions.

• Helping to build and maintain modern user experiences through web and mobile applications.

For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts.

Or our open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley

• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook

• github.com/loveholidays/po-test

As part of our tech culture we continuously improve our time to delivery, reducing errors and generally leaving things better than you found them.

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

• Implementing maintainable and well-tested solutions iteratively, keeping business impact and observability as a primary focus

• Understanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term business goals

Your skillset:

• Some foundational understanding of algorithms and data structures

• Developing basic technical knowledge in observability, with some prior exposure being beneficial

• Familiarity with web services, REST, and HTTP

• Learning about containers and cloud environments, possibly with some initial experience

• Participating in testing, reliability, and monitoring practices, potentially having contributed to past projects

• Gaining knowledge in building and contributing to application development, from initial stages to maintenance, with some practical experience being advantageous

• Developing professional communication skills in technical discussions, with some experience in team environments

• Eagerness to learn and develop expertise in one or more programming languages and paradigms – our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python, SQL, and others, with prior coding experience in any language being valuable

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.

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.

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.