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?

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  will work closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions.

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.

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

• 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.

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.

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…