At On the Beach, we're redefining how millions of customers discover, plan and book their holidays. Our platform sits at the heart of that experience and we're now investing in the next frontier: AI-driven travel discovery.
We're forming a new AI Discovery team. A small, senior led group with a mandate to explore and shape the future of how customers search, discover and plan their trips.
This is not a traditional product team.
It's an innovation-focused environment where experienced engineers lead ideas end-to-end, from concept through to real world validation working directly on problems that could redefine the customer experience.
About the RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Discovery team, you'll work at the frontier of applied AI building and testing new product experiences with real customers.
You'll focus on rapid experimentation and intelligent prototyping, exploring areas such as:
This role is about learning fast and building the right things, not just building things right.
You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, analysts and researchers to design experiments, validate ideas and identify which opportunities are worth scaling into full product capabilities.
Why This Role Is DifferentYou'll work on AI-driven problems that reach real customers, not just internal demos, with the autonomy to explore ideas in a low-process, high-trust environment.
This is a role where you'll help shape product direction as much as implementation, while influencing how AI is adopted across the organisation. You'll be part of a small, experienced team focused on solving meaningful problems and driving real impact.
Why Join UsThis is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, product, and customer experience, contributing to how a well-established travel platform continues to evolve with new technologies.
If you enjoy exploring new ideas, experimenting with emerging tools, and building solutions that can influence product direction, we'd love to hear from you!
What you'll be doing day to dayWe're looking for experienced engineers who are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and enjoy solving new types of problems.
Success in this role is defined by the impact you create and the speed at which we learn, rather than output alone.
You'll run high-quality experiments that generate meaningful insights, identify promising opportunities early, and help shape their direction. As ideas prove their value, you'll play a key role in guiding them towards production while also helping to foster a broader culture of experimentation and AI adoption across engineering.
What to expect from our interview processWe'll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage we may ask you to pop in and visit in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre.
Alternatively we can usually accommodate a final stage virtually also.
We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.
Ways of workingOur full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.
We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. As a team we are in the office 1 day every 2 weeks (usually Tuesday or Wednesday).
Our benefitsWe might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.