Senior Software Engineer - Hotel Acquisition

We’re On the Beach! Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks – and that’s just the beginning of our story.

We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.

Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we’re accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.

Ready to build the future of travel with us?

About the Role

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. We have AWS-hosted high-performance databases that contain billions of items. There are always interesting problems to solve!

You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution.

This is a backend and platform focused role with strong emphasis on distributed systems, cloud native technologies, operational excellence and high performance at scale. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions.

What you’ll be doing day to day

At On the Beach, our Hotels Acquisition team builds the platforms that power hotel choice, availability and pricing across the holiday journey.

We acquire, optimise and distribute hotel inventory from multiple suppliers to ensure customers can discover the right holiday at the right price with accurate availability.

Our systems sit behind hundreds of thousands of searches every day and operate in a domain where scale, data freshness, supplier reliability and customer experience are deeply connected.

Our mission is to deliver the best hotel choice, availability and value through scalable and intelligent acquisition platforms.

This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving large scale, data intensive and distributed systems challenges that directly influence customer experience and business performance.

You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience

We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building scalable systems that operate reliably under high throughput environments.

You will likely have experience in:

• Building scalable backend systems and distributed services

• Designing and operating cloud native platforms

• Working with large scale and data intensive applications

• Messaging infrastructure, streaming technologies and event driven architectures

• Building reliable and observable production systems

• Working with APIs, integrations and external suppliers

• Solving scalability, latency and operational resilience challenges

• Working collaboratively across engineering, product and commercial teams

• Making pragmatic technical decisions 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#, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, observability tooling and modern cloud native engineering practices is highly desirable.

What to expect from our interview process

After a call with our Talent Acquisition Team, We will run a 3 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 & System Design - 90 Minutes

We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.

Ways of working
Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.

We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. We operate a remote-first working model, with colleagues meeting in our Manchester office one day every two weeks. Please note that all applicants must be eligible to work full-time in the UK

Our benefits
We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.

These include:

• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off

• Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your 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

• Onsite 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