Junior Software Engineer

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

The impact you’ll have

• Assisting with supplier integration systems that process data.
• Participating in the development and maintenance of search and recommendation systems.
• Working on components of real-time pricing systems.
• Contributing to domain modeling and the implementation of booking, payment, fulfillment, and management systems.
• Supporting the development of AI-powered solutions.
• Helping to build and maintain modern user experiences through web and mobile applications.

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