Junior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Why Technology at loveholidays?

At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. 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. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the global leader in packaged holidays. We drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Our systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, we deploy over a thousand times a month, serving thousands of requests per second. This is where you can accelerate your growth by solving complex challenges and broadening your skillset.

Join us to create impact for our future in an exciting new chapter, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. We actively talk about technology and adhere to our key technology principles that have guided us this far. We are growing and have ambitious plans to expand across Europe, employing the best minds and technology to let us do this.

About the team

Cloud Infrastructure is the foundation of loveholidays' AI-first technology platform, building and operating the secure, scalable, and resilient cloud systems that power our products. We provide the tooling, automation, and guardrails that enable teams to ship confidently, run reliably, and make cloud and AI capabilities self-service across the organisation.

The impact you’ll have:

Software Engineers at loveholidays will contribute to and develop expertise in:

• Designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure.

• Developing self-service platforms, tooling, and automation that help teams ship quickly and safely.

• Contributing to our AI-first engineering culture by enabling reliable, governed, and scalable AI capabilities.

• Improving observability, reliability, incident response, and operational excellence across our systems.

• Building infrastructure foundations for modern web, mobile, data, and backend services.

• Working with cloud-native technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices.

• Helping teams adopt best practices for security, cost efficiency, resilience, and performance.

• Supporting the evolution of our developer experience so engineers can focus on delivering customer value.

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

Or our open source contributions:

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley

• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook

• github.com/loveholidays/po-test

As part of our tech culture we continuously improve our time to delivery, reducing errors and generally leaving things better than you found them.

Your day-to-day:

• Adoption of our engineering principles

• Building and running services at scale in the cloud

• Collaborating with engineers, designers, product managers within and outside of the team

• Implementing maintainable and well-tested solutions iteratively, keeping business impact and observability as a primary focus

• Understanding the wider context of the business and designing system architectures that meet short and long term business goals.

Your skillset:

• Some foundational understanding of algorithms and data structures

• Developing basic technical knowledge in observability, with some prior exposure being beneficial.

• Familiarity with web services, REST, and HTTP.

• Learning about containers and cloud environments, possibly with some initial experience.

• Participating in testing, reliability, and monitoring practices, potentially having contributed to past projects.

• Gaining knowledge in building and contributing to application development, from initial stages to maintenance, with some practical experience being advantageous.

• Developing professional communication skills in technical discussions, with some experience in team environments.

• Eagerness to learn and develop expertise in one or more programming languages and paradigms – our systems are written in TypeScript, Java, Golang, Rust, Python, SQL, and others, with prior coding experience in any language being valuable.

The interview journey:

1. 1st stage interview with two engineers from the team.

2. Live pairing challenge.

3. Final stage - consisting of discussions around three key areas.

Perks of joining us:

• Company pension contributions at 5%.

• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.

• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.

• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.

• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.

• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.

• The Electric Car Scheme.

At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.