easyJet holidays is the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, with a mission to provide brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices in more than 100 destinations across Europe. We do this by combining easyJet’s vast flight network with more than 5000 handpicked hotels and best-in-class technology to provide the perfect package holiday. We only launched in 2019 but already we have:
 

• Become the fastest growing, lowest cost travel business in the UK
• Achieved milestone customer numbers and taken almost 2 million customers away in our latest full year of trading, delivering significant profits to the easyJet group
• Launched an award-winning sustainability strategy with a focus on making a positive impact on the local communities that make our holidays so special
• Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running, in both 2023 and 2024, as well as being named the Best Workplace in Travel 2023. 

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and support new and existing solutions. You’ll provide technical expertise, guidance, and perform technical code reviews ensuring consistency and conformity to agreed standards.  

Development is a growing team within easyJet Holidays with the important mission of developing the website and all our proprietary software. Our own development capability is a key differentiator for us and supports the company reaching its goals. It is a very tight-knit team that moves fast and must deal with a lot of pressure.

This is a permanent role, based in Luton. (Hybrid Working)

What you’ll be doing

• As a senior developer you will be responsible for supporting and guiding the development and product teams. Guiding them to better solutions and helping them avoid issues.
• Set our standards and ensure the teams know how to apply them.
• Coaching teams on better development and project management techniques.
• Working with business stake holders to help them understand the constraints of our systems and where new possibilities exist.
• Delivering world class development that guides the companys future.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Demonstrable experience in developing solutions using an array of technologies including .NET, .NET Core, and Node
• Experience of various JavaScript libraries such as React/Angular/jQuery. HTML/CSS general front-end skills
• Experience of Sitecore and other CMS’
• Experience of tools such as GIT for source control and Team City for build and CI
• Experience of testing at multiple levels, including Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Able to develop solutions in a high transactional, high availability environment at enterprise scale
• Able to translate technical architecture into technical implementation.
• Able to guide and coach development teams, and work with them to find the best solution.
• Solid understanding of full SDLC.
• A good understanding and practical use of cloud technologies (specifically AWS).

What we can offer you

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits