Senior Engineer (Post Book | Virum)

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

A family of iconic travel brands including Novasol, Cottages.com & Hoseasons. 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 (Post Book Team)

We have a unique opportunity for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team responsible for the design, build, and implementation of our European wide Post Book (My Account) products.

🏡 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 product team, you’ll take responsibility for building innovative products to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests.
• Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for our 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 and cloud architectures.
• 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 working in pairs (and sometimes a mob), you thrive in an autonomous product engineering team and enjoy problems, we have many to solve.

A Full Stack Engineer at heart, with a passion for experimentation and building features to enhance the customer journey, you will offer experience/knowledge in a mixture of the following:

• Experience using React and Next.js to deliver Micro Front Ends
• Additional experience in any of the following would also be great: Node.js, Typescript, GraphQL
• Building Aggregated APIs
• Developing and deploying AWS services (e.g. EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3)
• Promotes TDD and has experience of react testing frameworks like Jest and React testing library.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines: GoCD, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc
• Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform

Ready to join us on our journey?

If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to jody.marks@awaze.com and let's chat today.

*Please note, our teams are based in Virum 2 days per week, close to central Copenhagen*