Principal Software Engineer

The role

As a Principal Engineer in the Boost team, you will act as an enabling function to help other teams improve and work faster. You will solve complex problems, coach engineers, and drive technical excellence and AI adoption across the company.

What you will do

• Own the team's functional KPIs.
• Help mission teams deliver faster, safer solutions by solving complex problems and training others.
• Champion AI adoption in engineering processes and solutions.
• Coach engineers to guide their growth.
• Build tools to make the Boost team more effective and improve platform governance.
• Embed in mission teams to solve hard tech problems.
• Design and oversee impactful systems that run reliably at cloud scale.
• Write and speak about tech work to raise engineering profile.

Required qualifications

• Strong front-end skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Agile mindset.
• Proven track record of delivery with teams.
• Experience with AI-powered feature development and leveraging AI tooling for software delivery.
• Demonstrable history of working hands-on with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges.
• Seasoned facilitator who excels at pairing with engineers and leading technical discussions.
• Ability to identify and scale successful technical patterns.
• Track record of building and optimising scalable, high-performance websites.

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.
• Holiday increase of 1 day for every second year of service, up to 30 days per annum.
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season ticket loan.
• Eye care vouchers.

Before you apply

• 1st stage interview with a member of our Talent Team
• Introduction to loveholidays Engineering with our VP of Engineering (60 mins)
• Presentation/Case Study with our VP and CTO (60 mins)
• Technical interview with 2 of our Principal or Heads of Engineering (60 mins)

About the company

loveholidays is an OTA aiming to become the most loved in Europe. Their technology processes trillions of daily holiday offers and serves thousands of requests per second.