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: Associate Software Engineer | OneSearch 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 and have a great role available for a passionate and ambitious Associate Software Engineer looking to make your mark in your career.

Do you want to work on exciting projects, learn from experienced developers, and build innovative solutions that make a real impact? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

🏡 What team will you be joining?

Our OneSearch platform sits at the heart of everything we do, underpinning our flagship brands, serving multiple 3rd party distribution partners and providing faceted navigation and up-to-date price and availability data for an international portfolio of 115,000 properties (across cottages, lodges, parks).

🏡 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.

Day-to-day you will:

• Work as part of a full stack product team, you’ll be responsible for building innovative products to ensure we continue to deliver optimal experiences for our guests and owners.
• Help shape the overall architecture and tech strategy for our OneSearch platform 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?

We don't expect you to be the finished article, more importantly we're looking for an Engineer with a strong passion for engineering and problem-solving. Coupled with this, it will however be great if you can offer.

• Ideally 12 months + experience building applications in any language, and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on our stack.
• Experience in Java and/or Clojure would be great but not a prerequisite
• Developing and deploying production AWS services
• Infra-as-code tools: Terraform, CDK, Serverless
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines: Github, Github actions & workflows, AWS Codedeploy
• Modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, BDD

🏡 What are we offering?

• Competitive Base + bonus
• Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
• Holiday Discounts: Discount across all AWAZE UK brands
• Pension: 4% matched
• Healthcare: personal
• Life assurance: 3 x salary
• Hybrid working (min 2 day per week in our Manchester office)
• Learning time: We like our teams to spend at least 2 hours a week (if you want to) for L&D.

🏡 Ready to grow your career? Please 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 [email protected] and let's chat today.

*Please note, our office is based in Virum, North of Central Copenhagen and upon joining, you will be expected to join our hybrid working policy which involves a minimum of 2 days per week in the office (usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays)"