Junior Software Engineer

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Why Technology at loveholidays?

At loveholidays - they trailblaze together. They're on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving their customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Their team is the driving force behind their role as their customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

Technology at loveholidays underpins their vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe. They drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Their systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, they 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 them to create impact for their future in an exciting new chapter, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. They actively talk about technology and adhere to their key technology principles that have guided them this far. They are growing and have ambitious plans to expand across Europe, employing the best minds and technology to let them do this.

About the team

Data Engineering is at the heart of loveholidays' data-driven culture, building and managing their petabyte-scale data platform. They provide self-service tooling for ingesting, transforming, and discovering data, making data a first-class citizen across the organisation.

The impact you’ll have:

• Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop expertise in:
• Contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of their petabyte-scale data platform.
• 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 their work, refer to some of their blog posts.

Or their open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley
• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook
• github.com/loveholidays/po-test

As part of their tech culture they continuously improve their time to delivery, reducing errors and generally leaving things better than you found them.

Your day-to-day:

• Adoption of their 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

Your skillset:

• 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 – their systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python, SQL, and others, with prior coding experience in any language being valuable

Perks of joining us:

• 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.

At loveholidays, they 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 their teams. And they value the insight and potential you could bring on their continued journey.

The interview journey:

• 1st stage interview with two engineers from the team.
• Tech challenge - you can choose between a live and take home option.
• Final stage - consisting of discussions around three key areas.

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