We are Awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, which brings together some of the continent’s most trusted travel brands, including cottages.com, Hoseasons and 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.

Position: Senior Software Engineer (OneSearch)

We’re entering an exciting new phase of our tech and product strategy, with a focus on innovation, experimentation, and conversion at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to elevate the web and mobile experience for our guests and owners, driving seamless journeys across all our group companies.

To achieve our goals, we’re looking to make some key hires, are you ready to be part of our continued transformation and help shape the future of the travel industry?

About the role:

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 data scientists to provide the search experience for our customers and for the business.
• Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for the search 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 we’re looking for:

As the OneSearch 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 Kotlin and JVM
• Non-relational database technologies such as OpenSearch
• Appreciation of data driven decision making and experimentation
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc)
• Experience with modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, Mobbing

What will we offer you?

• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Holiday Discounts across our network
• Pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare
• Hybrid working (2 days in Mcr office per week)
• Training & certifications

Get in touch, we'd love to chat:

If you're excited by the idea of shaping the future of pricing and travel tech, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your profile and let’s chat.