About The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer in Hotels Acquisition, you will build scalable backend systems and platforms that ingest, process and distribute hotel inventory across On the Beach. You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution. This is a backend and platform focused role with strong emphasis on distributed systems, cloud native technologies, operational excellence and high performance at scale. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions.
Day-To-Day Responsibilities
At On the Beach, our Hotels Acquisition team builds the platforms that power hotel choice, availability and pricing across the holiday journey. We acquire, optimise and distribute hotel inventory from multiple suppliers to ensure customers can discover the right holiday at the right price with accurate availability. Our systems sit behind hundreds of thousands of searches every day and operate in a domain where scale, data freshness, supplier reliability and customer experience are deeply connected. Our mission is to deliver the best hotel choice, availability and value through scalable and intelligent acquisition platforms.
This role involves solving large scale, data intensive and distributed systems challenges that directly influence customer experience and business performance.
Qualifications and Skills
We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building scalable systems that operate reliably under high throughput environments.
* Building scalable backend systems and distributed services
* Designing and operating cloud native platforms
* Working with large scale and data intensive applications
* Messaging infrastructure, streaming technologies and event driven architectures
* Building reliable and observable production systems
* Working with APIs, integrations and external suppliers
* Solving scalability, latency and operational resilience challenges
* Working collaboratively across engineering, product and commercial teams
* Making pragmatic technical decisions in fast moving environments
* Curiosity to learn new technologies and continuously improve engineering practices
* Interest in AI assisted engineering, agentic coding workflows and modern developer tooling
Experience with .NET, C#, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, observability tooling and modern cloud native engineering practices is highly desirable.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
* Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you’re away on your On the Beach package holiday
* Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
* Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling
* Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
* Company Sick Pay scheme
* Regular wellbeing events
* Gym discount
* Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
* Death in Service cover
* Onsite subsidised coffee shop
* The Sandbox (our very own bar)
* Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre
* Regular social events
* Cycle to Work scheme
Work Arrangements
Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, with flexible working patterns. Core working hours are between 10am and 4pm. We also have hybrid working across the Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre and from home. You’ll be in the office one day every two weeks and may come in more if you prefer.
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