At a Glance
- Tasks: Build scalable backend systems for hotel inventory and enhance customer experience.
- Company: On the Beach, a leading travel tech company in Manchester.
- Benefits: 25 days holiday, discounts on holidays, and access to professional development.
- Other info: Flexible hybrid working model with great career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in the travel industry.
- Qualifications: Experience in scalable backend systems and cloud-native platforms like AWS.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
As a Senior Software Engineer in Hotels Acquisition you will build scalable backend systems and platforms that ingest, process and distribute hotel inventory across On the Beach. You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution. This backend and platform focused role emphasises distributed systems, cloud‑native technologies, operational excellence and high performance at scale, while collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable, commercially impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Acquire, optimise and distribute hotel inventory from multiple suppliers to ensure customers can discover the right holiday at the right price with accurate availability.
- Maintain systems that sit behind hundreds of thousands of searches every day, ensuring scale, data freshness, supplier reliability and customer experience are deeply connected.
- Design, build and operate distributed services that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution.
- Work closely with engineering, product and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions.
Qualifications
- Experience building scalable backend systems and distributed services.
- Proficiency in designing and operating cloud‑native platforms, particularly AWS.
- Strong background in large‑scale, data‑intensive applications and messaging infrastructure, streaming technologies, and event‑driven architectures.
- Experience building reliable and observable production systems, with a focus on APIs, integrations and external suppliers.
- Ability to solve scalability, latency and operational resilience challenges.
- Collaborative mindset across engineering, product and commercial teams.
- Pragmatic technical decision‑making in fast‑moving environments.
- Curiosity to learn new technologies and continuously improve engineering practices.
- Interest in AI‑assisted engineering, agentic coding workflows and modern developer tooling.
- Experience with .NET, C#, Kubernetes, APIs, observability tooling and modern cloud‑native engineering practices is highly desirable.
Interview Process
The interview process consists of three stages, conducted via Microsoft Teams:
- Hiring Manager meet & greet – 30 minutes.
- Behavioural & ways of working – 60 minutes.
- Tech pairing & system design – 90 minutes.
Working Hours
Full‑time hours: 37.5 per week. Core working hours: 10:00‑16:00. Hybrid model: one day in office every two weeks, with the option for additional in‑office days.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus birthday off.
- Generous discount on holidays and 2 extra days annual leave when booking via On the Beach package.
- Access to Leaderbly learning platform, 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 and Company Sick Pay scheme.
- Regular wellbeing events, gym discount, Share Incentive Plan (SIP) and death‑in‑service cover.
- On‑site subsidised coffee shop, The Sandbox bar, food and drink discounts across Manchester venues, and cycle‑to‑work scheme.
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