Lead Software Engineer

The impact you'll have

Lead Software Engineers at loveholidays are the technical owners of:

• Supplier integration systems that process vast amounts of data
• Industry leading bespoke, high performance search and recommendation systems
• Sophisticated real time pricing systems
• Complex domain modelling and implementation of booking payment, fulfilment and management systems
• AI powered solutions to assist customers pre and post booking
• Best in class, modern user experience through web and mobile applications

Lead Software Engineers are responsible for their team’s engineers’ line management and career progression.

For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts:

• Optimising load testing in production

• Optimising Node.js Application Performance

• Reducing MTTD and increasing observability with Linkerd at loveholidays

Or our open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley

• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook

• github.com/loveholidays/po-test

Your day-to-day

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be responsible for:

• The application of our engineering principles by your team

• Building and running services at scale in the cloud

• Measurably improving your team’s productivity

• Support and career development for your team

• Collaborating with other members of the loveholidays technical leadership team

• Effectively communicating your team’s technical direction to stakeholders

• Recruitment for your team

Your skillset

• A proven track record of building and operating distributed web systems at scale

• Algorithms, data structures

• Performance, scalability

• Web services, REST, HTTP

• Containers, cloud

• Testing, reliability, monitoring

• Mentoring, supporting and measurably improving engineering teams

• Expertise in several programming languages and paradigms - our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python and others