Senior Software Engineer - Hotels

Be part of the team transforming global travel experiences!

Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest-growing travel websites, with over 8 million members, recently winning the National Travel Industry Award for Most Outstanding Online Travel Agency!

We are growing rapidly & seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Hotels team.

The Hotels team sits at the very core of the Luxury Escapes business. We build solutions to integrate third parties into our hotel booking engine and then deliver real-time availability and pricing to users across all our customer channels. It's an exciting space with a never-ending list of challenges to tackle.

Upcoming projects:

• V2 of the hotel engine: instant pricing and availability for over 200k hotels worldwide
• Wholesale: we're building the systems to on-sell our 200k hotels to other online travel agents
• International: Luxury Escapes is going global, and we need to scale our systems to match this growth

Working at Luxury Escapes

At Luxury Escapes, our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays. We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.

Our Sydney office is on Kent Street - a short walk from Wynyard station and close to great cafes in Barangaroo.

** Luxury Escapes is an in-person company. We work and collaborate together, face to face in our Sydney, Barangaroo office.**

About the team

Our cross-functional teams include Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers focused on delivering solutions and solving problems rather than simply completing tickets. The structure is flat, and the process is lean, with a culture of MVP, iteration, and "build, measure, learn" at the heart of everything we do. We share in-depth experience in Node/ Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, SNS, S3 Lambda, and more.

Our team members value engineering excellence, and as part of your role, you'll have dedicated time to focus on pushing the boundaries of engineering quality and development experience.

What you'll do

• Deliver features and enhancements relating to the new Luxury Escapes Platform, to ensure all Luxury Escapes members, vendors and internal teams have the best customer journey experience.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design and develop software solutions that meet business needs and deliver value to customers.
• Apply best practices and industry standards for software development, such as agile methodologies, test-driven development, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
•  Implement and maintain APIs to enable integration with third-party services, such as airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and payment processors.
• Monitor system performance and reliability, and proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure maximum uptime and customer satisfaction.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the online travel industry and evaluate their potential to improve existing systems or enable new capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior software engineers and participate in code reviews & other quality assurance activities to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Relevant Skills:

• Proficiency in JavaScript and its frameworks, including React, Node.js and Typescript.
• Solid knowledge of SQL, specifically PostgreSQL, for database management.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design principles and implementation.
• Experience in automated testing and continuous integration processes.
• Knowledge and experience working with microservices architecture.

Our Perks & Benefits

We consider our people one of our most important assets – and we want our team to love their working lives! When you work for Luxury Escapes, you can look forward to:

• Excellent Remuneration package
• 20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences
• Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week
• Health and Well-being programs
• Bonus 1/2 day of birthday leave
• A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms

If you’re interested in the role but don't check every box, apply anyway, we’d love to hear from you.

We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.

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