Principal Software Engineer

Why Technology at loveholidays?

At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

Technology at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe. We drive cutting-edge innovation and technical excellence to futureproof the business. Our systems process trillions of daily holiday offers, we deploy over a thousand times a month, serving thousands of requests per second. This is where you can accelerate your growth by solving complex challenges and broadening your skillset.

Join us to create impact for our future in an exciting new chapter, owning your success and contributing to shared goals. We actively talk about technology and adhere to our key technology principles that have guided us this far. We are growing and have ambitious plans to expand across Europe, employing the best minds and technology to let us do this.

The Impact You'll Have

As a Principal Engineer in the Boost team, you'll be part of a group of principal engineers who champion technical excellence. The team acts as an enabling function, not a delivery arm. You will embed in other teams to help them improve and work faster. You will be hands-on, leading by example, and coaching others to drive technical excellence and innovation across the company. Your success will be measured by how you help others succeed.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Own the team's functional KPIs, defining the measurable outcomes that show our impact.
• Help mission teams deliver faster, safer solutions by solving complex problems and training others to do the same.

Champion AI adoption, applying it to both engineering processes and solutions.

Coach our engineers, guiding their growth.

Build tools to make the Boost team more effective and improve platform governance.

We are looking for a candidate with strong front-end skills. You will work across the various tech systems within our platform and be confident in your ability to quickly learn new technologies. We value an agile mindset, and a proven track record of delivery with teams.

For a better understanding of our work, refer to some of our blog posts:

• How loveholidays is solving the technical excellence paradox
• Your AI Hates Your Prompts (And So Do You)
• Stop Chasing Ghost Errors: A Systematic Approach to Frontend Error Monitoring That Actually Works
• Does website speed contribute to customers booking holidays online?
• Creating a Zero Surprises Culture
  
  

Or Our Open Source Contributions

• github.com/loveholidays/ripley
• github.com/loveholidays/phrasebook
• github.com/loveholidays/po-test
• github.com/loveholidays/mcp-html-share
  
  

As part of our tech culture, we continuously improve our time to deliver, reduce errors, and generally leave things better than we found them.

You Will

Your day to day:

• Embed in mission teams to solve hard tech problems, coaching engineers hands-on to instill our core engineering principles.
• Drive initiatives to apply AI to build better solutions and improve our engineering process.
• Build tooling and processes to accelerate and enable our platform development.
• Design and oversee impactful systems that run reliably at cloud scale.
• Write and speak about our tech work to raise our engineering profile.
  
  

Your Skillset

• Experience with AI-powered feature development and leveraging AI tooling for software delivery, with enthusiasm for transforming how we build and deliver software.