Lead Software Engineer
loveholidaysOnline Travel company
London, United KingdomLead
Livingbridge
Meridian Corporate Finance
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead Software Engineer to drive innovation and build scalable systems for a leading travel company.
- •Loveholidays is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence.
- •You will be instrumental in developing and enhancing systems that process trillions of daily holiday offers, serving thousands of requests per second.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the development of supplier integration systems, search and recommendation systems, and real-time pricing systems.
- •Design and implement sophisticated domain models for booking, payment, fulfillment, and management systems.
- •Build and run services at scale in the cloud, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- •Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the engineering team.
- •Requirements Proven ability to lead people from a technical and cultural perspective.
- •Experience building scalable and high-performance applications using cutting-edge algorithms and technologies.
- •Strong knowledge in building and owning applications end-to-end.
- •Expertise in at least one of the main programming languages: TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python.
- •Experience with cloud platforms, containers, web services, and observability.
Required skills
TypeScriptJavaGoRustPythonMicroservicesDockerKubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
Google CloudBigQueryLLMs
Domain expertise
travel
Benefits & perks
Company pension contributions at 5%, Individualised training budget, Discounted holidays, 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, Eye care vouchers
Tech stack
TypeScriptJavaGoRustPythonGraphQLNode.jsSpringExpressMicroservicesREST APIDockerKubernetesCI/CDGoogle CloudBigQuery