Software Engineer

We are awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, which brings together some of the continent’s most trusted travel brands, including cottages.com, Hoseasons and NOVASOL.

With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we're proud to offer our guests a choice of over 100,000 properties in our portfolio, in 25 countries across Europe.

Position: Software Engineer | Payments Team x 2

Here at awaze, we’re building the next generation of our tech and product platform powered by innovation, experimentation, and a sharp focus on conversion.

Our mission is simple: deliver seamless web and mobile experiences for guests and owners across every brand in our group.

And now we’re hiring engineers to help make it happen. Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of travel?

🏡 What team will you be joining?

Our Payments Team powers every transaction across our network, serving as the single source of truth for the entire business.

You’ll be hands on designing and building essential services within our payments ecosystem, from transaction processing and scheduling to vouchers and discounting

The roadmap is packed with exciting challenges, including payment orchestration, platform migration, and greenfield solutions that will redefine our payments and checkout experience.

If you’re excited by complex systems, large-scale impact, and shaping the future of payments, this is the team to join.

🏡 What will your role be?

Joining our engineering teams, you’ll join a culture which revolves around getting things done. We deliver with small, fully autonomous teams that have real ownership of their products using a cutting edge stack in a best-idea-wins meritocracy. We operate what we build – which means reliability is key and devops is part of every engineer’s job description.

• Work as part of a back end focussed product team, you’ll be responsible for building innovative payment solutions to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests and owners.
• Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for our Payments product journey using the right technology for the task, rather than allowing the technology to dictate the solution.
• Contribute to driving best engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, cloud architectures and pair/mob programming.
• Experiment (it’s encouraged), collaborate, learn and debate.
• Be an active member of the engineering and wider tech community within Awaze.

🏡 Who are you?

You’ll enjoy working in pairs & sometimes a mob, you thrive in an autonomous product engineering team and enjoy problems, we have many to solve.

A passionate Software Engineer (Back End), you will offer experience/knowledge in a mixture of the following (we are not expecting you to know everything):

• Significant experience using TypeScript & NodeJS
• Developing and deploying AWS services (e.g. EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3)
• Building Microservices and APIs within an Event Driven Architecture environment
• Payments and/or checkout platforms experience (advantageous)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation
• Modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, BDD
• AI tooling - we've started using ChatGPT and Claude to enhance our daily engineering tasks. It would be great if you're already in this mindset to accelerate your coding, debugging, and documentation.

🏡 What will we offer you?

Upon joining, we’ll set out your journey with us with a personalised competency framework and we’ll give you the freedom to inform the best way of working to get the job done and help us shape the culture of our international teams.

We’ll also reward you with:

• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
• Holiday Discounts (18% to 20% discount across all AWAZE brands)
• Pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare
• Personal training allowance via Sunlight
• 35 hour working week
• Hybrid working (we work 2 days in our Manchester office every week, with 3 days working from home)

🏡 Get in touch, we'd love to chat:

If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to jody.marks@awaze.com and let's chat today.