Senior Software Engineer - Customer Platform

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer will join the Discover and Book team to build fast, accessible, and reliable customer experiences across web and mobile platforms. This role involves working closely with product and design teams to evolve the frontend platform and deliver high-impact journeys that simplify the holiday booking process. You will contribute to technical excellence by balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Build modern, responsive web experiences that are fast, accessible, reliable and maintainable.
• Work closely with Product and Design to turn customer problems into simple, intuitive journeys.
• Raise the quality bar for UI by ensuring experiences are accessible, visually consistent and work well across devices, browsers, languages and European markets.
• Build and evolve customer journeys that work seamlessly across the web and our iOS and Android app.
• Evolve our design system, shared components and design tokens so teams can build consistent experiences quickly.
• Improve web performance, including page load speed, rendering, bundle size and Core Web Vitals.
• Use experimentation, analytics and customer insight to make informed product decisions.
• Build well-tested, observable features and use production signals to continuously improve them.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on APIs and data contracts, keeping data ownership clear and frontend integrations straightforward.
• Mentor other engineers through pairing, code review and pragmatic technical guidance.
• Contribute to our frontend migration, bringing customer journeys from our established application onto our modern shared frontend platform.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• React
• Preact
• HTML
• CSS
• Responsive design
• Web accessibility
• GraphQL
• REST
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• End-to-end testing

Benefits

• Company pension contributions at 5%
• Individualised training budget
• Discounted holidays
• 25 days of holidays plus 8 public holidays
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care vouchers

About the Company

loveholidays is on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving customers unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. As the most loved OTA in Europe, the company uses progressive technology to drive innovation and improve how customers discover, book and experience their holidays.