Senior Software Engineer, On the Beach
Hotel Acquisition
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A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
Posted today
A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Share Incentive Plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become Europe’s biggest and most loved online retailer of beach holidays.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building scalable systems that operate reliably under high throughput environments
- Building scalable backend systems and distributed services
- Designing and operating cloud native platforms
- Working with large scale and data intensive applications
- Messaging infrastructure, streaming technologies and event driven architectures
- Building reliable and observable production systems
- Working with APIs, integrations and external suppliers
- Solving scalability, latency and operational resilience challenges
- Working collaboratively across engineering, product and commercial teams
- Making pragmatic technical decisions in fast moving environments
- Curiosity to learn new technologies and continuously improve engineering practices
- Interest in AI assisted engineering, agentic coding workflows and modern developer tooling
- Experience with .NET, C#, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, observability tooling and modern cloud native engineering practices is highly desirable
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer in Hotels Acquisition, you will build scalable backend systems and platforms that ingest, process and distribute hotel inventory across On the Beach
- We have AWS-hosted high-performance databases that contain billions of items
- There are always interesting problems to solve!
- You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution
- This is a backend and platform focused role with strong emphasis on distributed systems, cloud native technologies, operational excellence and high performance at scale
- You will work closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions
- At On the Beach, our Hotels Acquisition team builds the platforms that power hotel choice, availability and pricing across the holiday journey
- We acquire, optimise and distribute hotel inventory from multiple suppliers to ensure customers can discover the right holiday at the right price with accurate availability
- Our systems sit behind hundreds of thousands of searches every day and operate in a domain where scale, data freshness, supplier reliability and customer experience are deeply connected
- Our mission is to deliver the best hotel choice, availability and value through scalable and intelligent acquisition platforms
- This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving large scale, data intensive and distributed systems challenges that directly influence customer experience and business performance
- Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work
Application process
- After a call with our Talent Acquisition Team, We will run a 3 stage interview process all on Microsoft Teams, Which will consist of:
- Hiring Manager meet & greet - 30 Minutes
- Behavioural & ways of working - 60 Minutes
- Tech Pairing & System Design - 90 Minutes
Our take
With around 80% of UK citizens’ holidays booked online, On The Beach has become a challenger brand in the beach and package holiday sector. With around two million people using its platform to book their holidays abroad, it utilises brand partnerships to provide a wealth of discounts and deals for holidaymakers.
Having entered the London Stock Exchange in 2015, On The Beach has grown its brand since 2004. It shows no signs of slowing down either, with revenue surging in 2025 to set the company up for a new objective. It will now use its growing AI toolkit to disrupt the cruise holiday market, a fast-growing travel sector that the company has not yet capitalised on.
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Company benefits
- 📅25 days holiday
- 🥳 An extra day off on your birthday!
- 💷Option to buy extra annual leave
- Discount on holidays.. Plus two bonus days off (a take-off and landing day) to start and end your On the Beach holiday in the right way!
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Access to Learnerbly learning platform
- With a personal allowance to support your own personal development
- Family friendly policies
- Including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Including access to free counselling and GP appointments
- Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
- Onsite subsidised coffee shop
- Sandbox (our very own bar)
- Gym discounts
- Food and drink discounts
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
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Leadership
Shaun Morton
(CEO)Previously CFO at On The Beach, Director of Finance at ghd and a Senior Manager of Commercial Finance at Asda.
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