loveholidays
We are loveholidays: a fast-moving tech company revolutionising the way you search for holidays online. We are building the future of online travel, reducing the friction between searching for a holiday and booking one.
About loveholidays 🏖️
At loveholidays, we’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. We are a super fast growing travel-tech business who have been on an amazing journey from start-up to scale out - with over 400 people, and selling amazing holidays to over 4 million passengers!
We have big ambitions over the next 5 years - with a vision to be Europe’s #1 holiday provider. Come join us on this exciting journey!
Learning & Development 📚
We believe that investing in continuous learning is paramount for our people and business to thrive. Our learning approach ensures we put our people in control of their own development while harnessing our collective skills and competencies. Here's a few ways we do it through our 4-pillar learning vision.
Our 4-pillar learning vision
- Autonomy to develop
We offer access to resources, policies and processes to support you to drive your own development
- High-performance culture
We work collaboratively and provide both individual and team development to drive a high-performance culture
- Inspirational Leadership
We are continuously developing leadership skills to enable us to best lead our teams
- Meaningful careers
We provide meaningful career pathways that support individual progression, retention and expansion of key skills and knowledge.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 🌍
At loveholidays, our ambition is to be a destination for all to thrive – by creating an inclusive working environment where we build belonging for our people, customers and communities across the world.
Our DEI approach is based around 4 pillars
Belonging for all: We are continuously evolving an inclusive culture, where people have equitable access to opportunities to thrive and be themselves at work....
Behavioural capability: We build knowledge of practices that support our workforce to foster inclusion.
Balanced representation: We develop our pipeline of diverse talent with a focus on hiring and encouraging balanced representation across all teams and seniority levels.
Brilliant leadership: We strengthen our leaders with skills and practices that create psychological safety in teams so everyone’s voice is heard.
Core stats
2012
2012 Founded with a mission to deliver amazing holidays.
400+
Co-workers
4 Million
Selling amazing holidays to over 4 million passengers annually
Tech Stack
Our tech stack includes, but is not limited to:
Frontend
Backend
DevOps
Data
Roles
Senior Software Engineer
Junior Software Engineer
Senior Data Scientist
Our Benefits
Time off & travel perks
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- At least 25 days of annual leave, which increases with service
- Buy and sell annual leave – up to 5 days a year
- Take a month of unpaid leave after 5 years' service
- Enhanced maternity pay – 20 weeks at full pay and 6 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay – 4 weeks at full pay
Health & wellbeing
- Cycle to work scheme
- Specsavers eyecare vouchers
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Healthcare works differently based on the country you live in. So you may have medical coverage provided directly by the company, or you may have a supplemental plan that compliments your local health insurance scheme
Hybrid working & office extras
- 2 work from home days a week – Monday and Friday.
- Flexible office working hours.
- The ability to work from abroad (or elsewhere in the UK) 2 weeks a year.
- Regular colleague meet-ups with food, drinks and games provided (will you be our newest pool champion?).
- All company meet-ups each year to to discuss strategy, meet colleagues etc.
Extra benefits
- Bonus payments for successful job referrals
- Company pension contributions of 5%
- We are inclusive of all religious celebrations; flex your public holidays accordingly
- Monthly ‘Sky’s the Limit’ employee recognition awards
- Life Insurance coverage at 4x annual salary
Time off & travel perks
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- At least 25 days of annual leave, which increases with service
- Buy and sell annual leave – up to 5 days a year
- Take a month of unpaid leave after 5 years' service
- Enhanced maternity pay – 20 weeks at full pay and 6 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay – 4 weeks at full pay
Health & wellbeing
- Cycle to work scheme
- Specsavers eyecare vouchers
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Healthcare works differently based on the country you live in. So you may have medical coverage provided directly by the company, or you may have a supplemental plan that compliments your local health insurance scheme
Hybrid working & office extras
- 2 work from home days a week – Monday and Friday.
- Flexible office working hours.
- The ability to work from abroad (or elsewhere in the UK) 2 weeks a year.
- Regular colleague meet-ups with food, drinks and games provided (will you be our newest pool champion?).
- All company meet-ups each year to to discuss strategy, meet colleagues etc.
Extra benefits
- Bonus payments for successful job referrals
- Company pension contributions of 5%
- We are inclusive of all religious celebrations; flex your public holidays accordingly
- Monthly ‘Sky’s the Limit’ employee recognition awards
- Life Insurance coverage at 4x annual salary
Blogs
Awards and Recognition
The 5 principles that helped scale loveholidays
Maintaining speed and innovation whilst scaling a business isn’t easy. At loveholidays this was especially challenging as our speed and innovation helped win us the award for the fastest growing business in the UK in 2019.
Streaming Terraform debug logs using runatlantis.io
We’ve previously wrote about how we utilise runatlantis.io hosted in GKE, paired with Github, to manage the infrastructure from our various Terraform repositories here at loveholidays. If you haven’t seen this and want to know more about our set up, along with how we integrated Atlantis with Conftest, have a read here.
Load testing in production with Grafana Loki, Kubernetes and Golang
The period between the 26th of December and early February is one of increased holiday trading activity in the UK. At loveholidays we affectionately refer to it as Peaks. During Peaks, loveholidays.com’s throughput exceeds more than 10 times the average.
An environment for great products
Like most kids his age, my son Isaac loves Lego. It’s a great product (if not a little pricey). Once, in a misguided attempt to save money, I bought him some fake Lego Star Wars characters thinking he wouldn’t notice the difference. They were similar in shape, design, and colour to the real deal but as time went on, they just sat collecting dust. When asked about it he explained, “It’s not real Lego”. Something about those figures didn’t feel right to him but he couldn’t express exactly what.
Enforcing best practice on self-serve infrastructure with Terraform, Atlantis and Policy As Code
Here at loveholidays we are heavily dependant on Terraform. All of our Google Cloud infrastructure is managed using Terraform, along with a number of non-GCP services as well.
Agile needs a story
A friend once told me, “The problem with agile is that it needs a story”. As head of investor relations she was lamenting the fact that, even with great business results, all the work that we had done to improve the company had gone unnoticed. Our incremental approach made it difficult to follow along with the improvements made over time as, by design, there were no ‘Big Bang’ moments where something new was revealed. Instead, things just got consistently better and that was a bit… well… boring.
Locations
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London
3 Shortlands W6 8DA London
Our Remote Working Policy
Hybrid working
Our bright, inviting offices and remote working options ensure you can work comfortably on your own terms.
2 work from home days a week – Monday and Friday
Flexible office working hours