Senior Software Engineer (London)
Job Description
hackajob is collaborating with loveholidays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
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Why Engineering @loveholidays?
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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.
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Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe. 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.
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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.
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The impact you’ll have:
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Senior Software Engineers at loveholidays have strong expertise in:
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- \nSupplier integration systems that process vast amounts of data\n
- \nIndustry leading bespoke, high performance search and recommendation systems\n
- \nSophisticated real time pricing systems\n
- \nComplex domain modelling and implementation of booking payment, fulfilment and management systems\n
- \nAI-powered solutions to assist customers pre and post booking\n
- \nBest in class, modern user experience through web and mobile applications\n
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For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts.
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Or our open source contributions:
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- \ngithub.com/loveholidays/ripley\n
- \ngithub.com/loveholidays/phrasebook\n
- \ngithub.com/loveholidays/po-test\n
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As part of our tech culture we continuously improve our time to delivery, reducing errors and generally leaving things better than you found them.
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Your day-to-day:
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- \nAdoption of our engineering principles\n
- \nBuilding and running services at scale in the cloud\n
- \nCollaborating with engineers, designers, product managers within and outside of the team\n
- \nImplementing maintainable and well-tested solutions iteratively, keeping business impact and observability as a primary focus\n
- \nUnderstanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term business goals\n
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Your skillset:
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- \nAlgorithms, data structures\n
- \nObservability\n
- \nWeb services, REST,
- \nContainers, cloud\n
- \nTesting, reliability, monitoring\n
- \nStrong knowledge in building and owning application end-to-end, from inception to maintenance, to retirement\n
- \nDesigning systems that scale\n
- \nExpertise in some of our main programming languages - TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python\n
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Desirable
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- \nExperience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, NoSQL or GCP\n
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Perks of joining us:
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- \nCompany pension contributions at 5%\n
- \nIndividualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up\n
- \nDiscounted holidays for you, your family and friends\n
- \n25 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\n
- \nAbility to buy and sell annual leave\n
- \nCycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers\n
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The interview journey:
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- \nTA screening - 30 mins\n
- \n1st Stage - Introduction - 45 mins\n
- \nCoding challenge - take home test or live pairing\n
- \n2nd Stage - 3 hours\n
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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.