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 Engineer | Guest Discovery Team
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 front end focussed 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 to provide a best in class search experience for our customers.
* 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:
It’s a great time to be joining our Guest Discovery team, with a strong pipeline of projects in play. You can expect to get involved in some (if not all) of the following: overhaul of the property search forms, improving the UX of our search filtering, introducing AI-powered search, and developing multiple new search features, including personalisation.
As the team continues to mature our offerings, we’re looking for an experienced T-Shaped Senior Engineer (front-end focused), with the ability to guide your peers on modern engineering standards and user-centric development.
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:
* TypeScript and JavaScript: deep understanding of modern frameworks and tooling
* Solid appreciation of Node.js and how it underpins scalable front-end architecture
* Strong grasp of web accessibility standards (a11y) and inclusive design principles
* Experience with experimentation and A/B testing as part of product development
* Passion for data-driven decision making and using insight to improve user experience
* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines, testing, and deployment practices
* AWS: developing and deploying cloud native solutions using Terraform or similar IaC tools is advantageous
🏡 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.