Senior Software Engineer, loveholidays
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
Holiday booking service
Open for applications
Holiday booking service
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Loveholiday's mission is to create the ultimate online travel experience.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Expertise in several programming languages and paradigms - our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python and others
- Strong focus on solving user problems and delivering business value through technology
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and innovation
Desirable
- Proven experience in building and maintaining content management systems at scale (Sanity experience is a plus)
- Strong understanding of content modeling, internationalisation, and localisation principles
- Experience with modern CMS platforms
- Experience with automation and content workflow optimisation
- Hands-on experience with generative AI models for content generation and enhancement
- Experience with content optimisation and SEO
- Background in developing multilingual content systems
What the job involves
- Loveholidays engineering’s role underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe by providing a best in class experience to customers pre and post booking
- At loveholidays, our content systems power a comprehensive travel platform that guides customers through their holiday planning journey
- From AI-enhanced hotel descriptions to destination guides, concept-based landing pages, and detailed FAQs, we create and manage content that helps customers discover exactly what they're looking for
- The Web Infrastructure team develops and maintains these content management capabilities, improving our customers' experience through AI-powered content generation and smart translation systems
- We're advancing how travel content is managed at scale while building systems that support our international expansion
- The Senior Software Engineer will shape the future of our content capabilities
- You'll work on enhancing our content management system, building automation for content generation and translation, and developing scalable solutions that power our growth into new markets
- This role puts you at the center of our efforts to deliver high-quality, localised content that helps customers find their perfect holiday
- Design and implement AI-powered content enhancement pipelines for hotel descriptions, facilities, and classifications
- Develop and maintain our scalable, self-serve content management system in Sanity
- Automate content management and translation processes across multiple languages and markets
- Build and enhance tools for efficient content reuse and internationalisation
- Collaborate with content teams to streamline their workflows and implement new features
- Support the development of data products and reporting for content operations
- Supporting other teams in scaling content models for reuse and internationalisation
Application process
- 1st stage interview with two engineers from the team
- Tech challenge - you can choose between a live and take home option
- Final stage - consisting of discussions around three key areas
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Travel, both domestic and overseas, has been a huge part of the British economy since the late 20th century. In 2019, UK residents spent £43 billion on foreign holidays - almost double the amount spent a decade before.
Despite travel companies suffering considerable reputation damage back in 2020, as they struggled to refund customers whose booked holidays were suddenly cancelled, the appeal of companies like loveholidays to holidaymakers will undoubtedly endure seeing as they make the process of booking holidays much easier.
In the nearest future, loveholidays will need to focus on maintaining its reputation, especially given the wide array of direct competitors who could steal market share. At present, however, loveholidays is still one of the fastest growing online travel agents. If it can keep up the practices which have brought it success over the past 10 years, loveholidays is still in a good position to keep its growth strong for few years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"The company has made a deliberate decision to invest in great engineers and give us the autonomy and accountability to pick the best tool for the..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2016
$4.1m
EARLY VC
May 2011
$2.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.9m
Company benefits
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Company pension contributions at 5%
- Individual training budget for courses, seminars and memberships to professional bodies
- High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
- Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
- Hybrid working with 3 days working in our office (London) and 2 days WFH per week
- Sustainably sourced fruit baskets in the office kitchen
- Increased annual leave for long service
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Enhanced maternity pay = 6 weeks of full pay and 20 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay = 4 weeks of full pay
Company values
- We are entrepreneurs - We’re proudly commercial, we do more with less, we own the decisions we make and the actions we take
- Everything is written in pencil - As we grow, we think smaller, act quicker and continuously evolve the way we organise our work
- We organise for speed - A flat structure with small teams, allows us to move quickly
- We believe in Team - We’re all in it together
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
Jonny Marsh
(Non Executive Director)An engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Jonny is also the founder and ex-CEO of nmqa Ltd and co-founder of travelmatch. He served as Loveholiday's COO until 2019.
Alex Francis
(Non Executive Director)Founded travelmatch in 2007 and then loveholidays in 2012, quickly becoming the fastest growing business in the UK by 2019. Now acting as a non-exec for the business since stepping down as CEO in 2020.
People progressing
Joined as UX/Design Manager in 2011, promoted 3 times in 10 years to current position of Lead User Researcher, having previously worked as Senior Product Designer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at loveholidays
Clodagh Beatty (Head of Talent Management, Learning & DE&I)
- We recently hired a Head of L&D, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support us in our ongoing commitments to creating an inclusive environment, as well as providing growth opportunities for all our employees
- We want all applicants to feel they can belong at loveholidays
- We have employees from all walks of life and we are only interested in assessing your skills, attitude and talent!
- We support Employee Resource Groups - recently launched our Women's Network at loveholidays
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