Lead Software Engineer - Scale High-Performance Systems

loveholidays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension contributions

Individualised training budget for you

Discounted holidays for you, your 가족?

25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8)

Cycle to work scheme

Eye care vouchers

Job summary

loveholidays is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our technology team in the United Kingdom. You will drive engineering excellence, lead a team of engineers, and own end-to-end delivery of high-performance systems in a cloud environment.

Collaborating with product, design and data teams, you will shape architectures that scale and impact growth across Europe. You will mentor others, promote observability and reliability, and help us accelerate delivery with modern web stacks and diverse

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead people from a technical and cultural perspective.
• Experience building scalable, high-performance applications.
• Ability to pair program with fellow engineers.
• Observability, reliability and monitoring practices.
• Web services, REST and HTTP interfaces.
• Containers, cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Adopt and exemplify engineering principles.
• Build and run services at scale in the cloud.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and product managers across teams.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance.
• Design architectures that meet short and long-term business goals.
• Mentor and grow the team.

Skills

Lead people (tech & culture)

High-performance apps

Pair programming

Observability

Web services REST HTTP

Containers & cloud

End-to-end ownership

System design scaling

TypeScript

Java

Golang

Rust

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Job description

loveholidays is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our technology team in the United Kingdom. You will drive engineering excellence, lead a team of engineers, and own end-to-end delivery of high-performance systems in a cloud environment.

Collaborating with product, design and data teams, you will shape architectures that scale and impact growth across Europe. You will mentor others, promote observability and reliability, and help us accelerate delivery with modern web stacks and diverse