Lead Software Engineer

About the role

The Lead Software Engineer will drive technical excellence and innovation to support the company's mission of becoming a global leader in packaged holidays. This role involves building and maintaining high-performance, scalable systems while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team. You will collaborate across functions to design architectures that meet both short and long-term business goals.

Responsibilities

• Adoption of engineering principles
• Building and running services at scale in the cloud
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers
• Providing technical leadership and guidance
• Designing system architectures that meet business goals
• Mentoring and growing the team

Required skills

• Leadership
• Scalable applications
• Observability
• Web services
• REST
• HTTP
• Containers
• Cloud
• Testing
• Reliability
• Monitoring
• TypeScript
• Java
• Golang
• Rust

Nice to have

• Go
• LLMs
• Systems thinking
• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud
• BigQuery
• Travel sector

Benefits

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

About the Company

loveholidays is on a mission to open the world to everyone, providing customers with unlimited choice, unmatched ease, and unmissable value for their getaways. The company is growing with ambitious plans to expand across Europe, leveraging cutting-edge technology to futureproof the business.