Senior Software Engineer - Discover & Book

The role

You will work in the Discover and Book team to build fast, accessible, and reliable web experiences. You will shape customer journeys across web and mobile while evolving the frontend platform and design system.

What you will do

• Build modern, responsive web experiences that are fast, accessible, reliable and maintainable.
• Work closely with Product and Design to turn customer problems into simple, intuitive journeys.
• Raise the quality bar for UI by ensuring experiences are accessible and visually consistent.
• Build and evolve customer journeys that work across web, iOS and Android.
• Evolve the design system, shared components and design tokens.
• Improve web performance, including page load speed, rendering, bundle size and Core Web Vitals.
• Use experimentation, analytics and customer insight to make informed product decisions.
• Build well-tested, observable features and use production signals to continuously improve them.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on APIs and data contracts.
• Mentor other engineers through pairing, code review and pragmatic technical guidance.

Required qualifications

• Experience building server-rendered, performant web applications.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design and browser behaviour.
• Practical commitment to web accessibility and inclusive design.
• Experience creating and maintaining component libraries or design systems.
• Experience consuming and shaping APIs, ideally GraphQL and REST.
• Strong testing habits across unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Understanding of performance, monitoring, reliability and observability in customer-facing web applications.
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems, make sound trade-offs and deliver incrementally.
• Ability to work effectively across frontend and backend boundaries.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with Design, Product and Engineering colleagues.

Benefits

• Company pension contributions at 5%
• Individualised training budget
• 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
• Access to our electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care vouchers

Before you apply

• Talent intro
• 1st stage with two Software Engineers
• Take-home challenge
• Final stage with key stakeholders, in office
• Challenge discussion

About the company

loveholidays is an OTA in Europe that uses progressive technology to help customers discover, book and experience their holidays.