Staff Software Engineer

• Staff Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop 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

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

• You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, software design and technologies to do so.
• You enjoy collaborating with other engineers through pair programming.
• 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
• Designing systems that scale
• Expertise in some of our main programming languages - TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python

• You have extensive experience coding in Go and Java.
• You are someone who can identify repetitive processes and transform them into automated solutions using LLMs, or build custom tools and integrations through code to unlock new efficiencies and opportunities.
• You have experience deploying applications in Kubernetes through Google Cloud.
• You are comfortable using BigQuery to analyse data to help identify areas of opportunity within the team.
• You have knowledge and understanding of the travel sector.