We are awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, which brings together some of the continent’s most trusted travel brands, including cottages.com, Hoseasons and NOVASOL.
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.
Position: Software Engineer | Payments Team
We’re entering an exciting new phase of our tech and product strategy, with a focus on innovation, experimentation, and conversion at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to elevate the web and mobile experience for our guests and owners, driving seamless journeys across all our group companies.
To achieve our goals, we’re looking to make some key hires—are you ready to be part of the transformation and help shape the future of the travel industry?
What team will you be joining?
Our Payments Team is the "single source of truth" for transactions across our entire network.
On a day-to-day basis, you'll be involved in designing and building key components of our payments ecosystem — ranging from transactions and scheduling services to vouchers and discounts.
As we continue to look at new ways to innovate for our customers, the team are currently in the discovery phase for two major greenfield projects: “payment orchestrator integration” and the “implementation of express checkout” and you’ll get to play a major part in these key developments.
If you’re passionate about building complex, high-impact solutions that serve our entire group, this is the team for you.
What will your role be?
Joining our engineering teams, 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.
* Work as part of a back end focussed product team, you’ll be responsible for building innovative payment solutions to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests and owners.
* Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for our Payments 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, cloud architectures and pair/mob programming.
* 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 & sometimes a mob, you thrive in an autonomous product engineering team and enjoy problems, we have many to solve.
A passionate Software Engineer (Back End), you will offer experience/knowledge in a mixture of the following (we are not expecting you to know everything):
* Significant experience using TypeScript & NodeJS
* Developing and deploying AWS services (e.g. EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3)
* Building Microservices and APIs within an Event Driven Architecture environment
* Payments and/or checkout platforms experience (advantageous)
* Experience building CI/CD pipelines
* Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation
* Modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, BDD
What will we offer you?
Upon joining, we’ll set out your journey with us with a personalised competency framework and we’ll give you the freedom to inform the best way of working to get the job done and help us shape the culture of our international teams.
We’ll also reward you with:
* Annual Bonus Scheme
* 25 days holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
* Holiday Discounts (18% to 20% discount across all AWAZE brands)
* Pension contribution scheme
* Private healthcare
* Personal training allowance via Sunlight
* 35 hour working week
* Hybrid working (we work 2 days in our Manchester office every week, with 3 days working from home)
* Meeting free lunch policy
Get in touch, we'd love to chat:
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.