Principal Software Engineer
loveholidaysOnline Travel company
London, United KingdomLead
Livingbridge
Meridian Corporate Finance
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Drive technical excellence and innovation as a Principal Software Engineer.
- •As a Principal Engineer in the Boost team, you'll champion technical excellence and drive innovation across the company.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the team's functional KPIs and define measurable outcomes.
- •Help mission teams deliver faster, safer solutions by solving complex problems.
- •Champion AI adoption in engineering processes and solutions.
- •Coach engineers and guide their growth.
- •Build tools to improve platform effectiveness and governance.
- •Requirements Strong front-end skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- •Experience with AI-powered feature development and AI tooling for software delivery.
- •Demonstrable history of working hands-on with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges.
- •Ability to identify and scale successful technical patterns.
- •Track record of building and optimizing scalable, high-performance websites.
Required skills
ReactJavaScriptNode.jsEngineering ManagementTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
KubernetesCI/CDDockerGraphQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchTerraformGitHub Actions
Domain expertise
travel
Benefits & perks
Company pension contributions, Individualised training budget, Discounted holidays, Holidays, Ability to buy and sell annual leave, Cycle to work scheme, Season ticket loan, Eye care vouchers
Tech stack
ReactJavaScriptNode.jsAWSKubernetesCI/CDDockerGraphQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchTerraformGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaGitLinuxJiraConfluencePostmanREST APIgRPCWebSocketsRabbitMQCelerySidekiqNotionSlack