Junior Ux Designer jobs in United States

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.

L2 Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop expertise in:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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, and others, with prior coding experience in any language being valuable.

• 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

• TA screening - 30 mins

• 1st stage - Introduction - 45 mins

• Coding challenge - take home test or pairing

• 2nd stage - Coding Extension, Reliability and Infrastructure, Cultural Discussion.

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.