Senior Software Engineer (Mobile)

Job Description

Welcome to awaze, europe's largest holiday vacation rentals group.

A family of iconic travel brands including Cottages.com, Hoseasons & 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.

Why join us?

Since 2021, we’ve built up a great team of engineers in the UK & Denmark (100+), responsible for solving the largest technology replatforming project ever in the travel industry. As we roll out our new core platform in 2024, it's a genuinely exciting time to join us as we continue to innovate, evolve and grow our platforms with one simple vision and aim: "to delight our owners and guests."

Do you want to join in the fun of transforming the travel industry?

Position: Senior

Software Engineer |

Guest Mobile App

Team

What team will you be joining?

As we continually look at new ways to enhance our customer journey, we're investing heavily in our Guest Mobile App.

With the goal of creating a personalised travel experience for our Guests, we're currently building this team from scratch and upon joining you'll have a big part to play in the future of how our customers book and manage their holidays via our awaze network.

What will your role be?

Joining our engineering teams and reporting to our Engineering Manager, 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 mobile app product team, you’ll be responsible for building innovative products to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests and owners.
Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for our Guess Mobile App product journey 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/mob programming.
Mentor and grow software engineers (grads, juniors and mid-weight engineers)
Experiment (it’s encouraged), collaborate, learn and debate.
Be an active member of the engineering and wider tech community within Awaze.

Who are you?

You’ll enjoy leading in pairs & mobs, you thrive in an autonomous product engineering team and enjoy problems, we have many to solve.

A passionate Mobile Developer at heart, you will offer

experience/knowledge

in a mixture of the following (we are not expecting you to know everything):

Expertise using React Native.
Experience in native mobile development (iOS and/or Android) would be useful.
Additional experience in any of the following would also be great: Node.js, Typescript, GraphQL
Experience with AWS or serverless technologies e.g. AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway
Building Microservices and APIs within an Event Driven Architecture environment.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines: GoCD, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc
Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation
Modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, BDD

What will we offer you?

Upon joining, we’ll set out your journey with us with a personalised competency framework and we’ll give you the freedom to inform the best way of working to get the job done and help us shape the culture of our international teams.

We’ll also reward you with:

Annual Bonus Scheme
25 days holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
Holiday Discounts (18% to 20% discount across all AWAZE brands)
Pension contribution scheme
Private healthcare
Personal training allowance via Sunlight
35 hour working week
Hybrid working
Meeting free lunch policy

Get in touch, we'd love to chat:

If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to

[email protected]

and let's chat today.