Lead Software Engineer

Job description

Why Technology at loveholidays? 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 global leader in packaged holidays. 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. The impact you’ll have: Lead 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 ML-backed marketing optimisation 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 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 Providing technical leadership and guidance Understanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term bus…