Senior Software Engineer

Awaze
Manchester
1 year ago
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Welcome to Awaze, Europe's largest holiday vacation rentals group. A family of iconic travel brands including Cottages.com, Hoseasons & Novasol. With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we're proud to offer our guests a choice of over 100,000 properties in our portfolio, in 25 countries across Europe. Why join us? Since 2021, we’ve built up a great technology team of engineers in the UK & Denmark (c.200), responsible for solving the largest technology replatforming project ever in the travel industry. As we roll out our new core platform in 2024, it's a genuinely exciting time to join us as we continue to innovate, evolve and grow our platforms with one simple vision and aim: "to delight our owners and guests." Do you want to join in the fun of transforming the travel industry? Role: Senior Software Engineer | Point in Time Pricing team Joining our engineering teams, you’ll join a culture which revolves around getting things done. We deliver with small, fully autonomous teams that have real ownership of their products using a cutting edge stack in a best-idea-wins meritocracy. We operate what we build – which means reliability is key and devops is part of every engineer’s job description. Day-to-day you will: Work as part of a full stack product team responsible for building innovative products to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests and owners. Have the opportunity to be the guiding technical force within the team, pairing with the more junior developers, and delivering software in a modern agile environment. Work alongside other engineers and a data scientist to provide the best prices for our customers and for the business. Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for the Point in Time pricing platform using the right technology for the task, rather than allowing the technology to dictate the solution. Contribute to driving best engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, cloud architectures and pair programming. Be an active member of the engineering and wider tech community within Awaze What will you offer? As the Point in Time Pricing team continues to mature our offerings, we’re looking for a senior software engineer to help drive best practice and help to shape the technical direction of the team going forwards. We're looking for an experienced Senior Engineer (back end | infrastructure focussed), with the ability to guide your peers on best practice. Experience with some (or all) of the following and an ability and willingness to learn would make you a great match to come and join us: AWS: developing and deploying cloud native solutions using Terraform or similar IaC tools (ESSENTIAL) Server-side development using GO, Node.js or Python FastAPI Relational database technologies , such as PostgreSQL, including experience with query optimisation and schema design Non-relational database technologies such as DynamoDB or MongoDB Familiarity with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc) Experience with modern quality practices , such as pairing, TDD, BDD We'll reward you whilst growing your career: Competitive Base bonus Holidays: 25 days bank holidays Holiday Discounts: 18% discount across all AWAZE UK brands Pension: 4% matched Healthcare: personal Life assurance: 3 x salary Perkbox: Annual subscription Get in touch, we'd love to chat: If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to jody.marksawaze.com and let's chat today.

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