About the Role
As a Software Engineer IC2 (Mid Level) in Search Experience Engineering, you will build modern full stack applications and customer facing experiences that shape how customers discover and shop for holidays. This full stack role focuses on frontend engineering, performant web applications, and customer experience. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts to deliver high quality solutions that improve customer outcomes and business performance.
Responsibilities
You will help design and build the customer journeys that aid millions of people in discovering and booking their perfect holiday. From search and discovery to personalization and package customization, the team creates fast, intuitive, and high performing experiences.
Qualifications
- Building scalable full stack applications and customer facing platforms
- Strong frontend engineering skills using modern web technologies and frameworks
- Developing backend APIs and distributed systems
- Building performant, accessible, and reliable user experiences
- Working with cloud native technologies and modern engineering practices
- Using experimentation, analytics, and customer insights to guide decisions
- Collaborating with product, design, and commercial teams
- Making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast moving environments
- Interest in AI assisted engineering, agentic coding workflows, and modern developer tooling
Experience with React, TypeScript, .NET, APIs, AWS, and observability tooling is beneficial.
Interview Process
After a call with our Talent Acquisition Team, we will run a three stage interview process all on Microsoft Teams, which will consist of:
- Hiring Manager meet & greet - 30 minutes
- Behavioural & ways of working - 60 minutes
- Tech pairing - 60 minutes
Ways of Working
Full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours. Core working hours are between 10 am and 4 pm, enabling collaboration and social interaction. We have hybrid working, with you working from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You'll be in the office one day every two weeks and can come in more if you'd like.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
- Generous discount on holidays, plus 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're on an 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
- On site 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