Senior Software Engineer

hackajob; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London, offering the chance to work with innovative technology while developing systems that connect to vast data and deliver outstanding customer experiences. The role entails collaboration, implementation of engineering principles, and contributing to open-source projects in an inclusive environment.

Benefits

5% company pension contributions

Individualised training budget

Discounted holidays

25 days of holidays plus public holidays

Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Eye care vouchers

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge in observability.
• Expertise in programming languages like TypeScript, Java, and Python.
• Professional communication skills in architecture design.

Responsibilities

• Build and run services at scale in the cloud.
• Implement maintainable and well-tested solutions iteratively.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers.

Skills

Algorithms

Data Structures

Web Services

Containers

Testing

Reliability

Monitoring

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

NoSQL

Job description

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hackajob is collaborating with LoveHolidays to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

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

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

Senior Software Engineers at loveholidays have strong expertise in:

• Supplier integration systems that process vast amounts of data
• Industry leading bespoke, high performance search and recommendation systems
• Sophisticated real time pricing systems
• Complex domain modelling and implementation of booking payment, fulfilment and management systems
• AI-powered solutions to assist customers pre and post booking
• Best in class, modern user experience through web and mobile applications
  
  

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

• Algorithms, data structures
• Strong technical knowledge in observability
• Web services, REST, HTTP
• Containers, cloud
• Testing, reliability, monitoring
• Strong knowledge in building and owning application end-to-end, from inception to maintenance, to retirement
• Professional communication skills in architecture design
• Expertise in one of the programming languages and paradigms - our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python and others
  
  

Desirable

• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, NoSQL or GCP
  
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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