Hiring: Principal Software Engineer
Company: easyJet holidays
Location: Luton, England, United Kingdom (London Luton Airport)
Employment Type: Full-time (Hybrid: 3 days a week in Luton office)
Seniority Level: Staff / Principal level
Estimated Salary: £95,000 - £125,000 per year (Based on localized United Kingdom market benchmarks for principal-level software engineers operating within high-scale e-commerce and travel technology platforms)
Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism / Aviation & Aerospace / Computer Software
Company Overview
easyJet holidays is the UK’s fastest‑growing tour operator and a Sunday Times Best Place to Work, dedicated to delivering brilliant package travel at unbeatable prices across more than 100 destinations.
Launched in 2019, our digital platform integrates an unrivalled flight network with over 5,000 handpicked hotels and best‑in‑class technology. Operating as an ambitious, high-growth travel brand, we have scaled operations into Switzerland, Germany, and France, leveraging innovative engineering cultures to shape the future of global leisure travel.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership: Lead the technical direction and architecture of major, high-impact engineering initiatives powering proprietary holiday platforms.
Scalable Architecture: Design, build, and evolve highly scalable, innovation-focused software solutions capable of supporting millions of transactions.
Strategic Roadmap: Collaborate with engineering directors to define and shape the long-term technology strategy and cloud infrastructure blueprints.
Engineering Mentorship: Act as a hands-on engineering mentor, guiding and leveling up senior and junior developers across the engineering ecosystem.
Complex Problem Solving: Tackle complex distributed systems challenges, optimize service performance, and ensure platform resiliency during high-traffic booking windows.
Cross-Functional Synergy: Interface closely with product management, UX designers, and operations to turn complex customer requirements into reliable code releases.
Experience & Qualifications
Sustained Engineering Mastery: Proven track record of operating in a senior or staff engineering capacity, executing large-scale software designs inside fast-paced environments.
Distributed Systems Domain: Extensive experience building high-availability, low-latency transaction engines or high-traffic enterprise web services.
Mentorship & Culture Advocacy: Demonstrated experience coaching engineering teams, driving clean code standards, and managing rigorous peer review cycles.
E-Commerce/Travel Exposure: Prior background optimizing high-scale booking systems, shopping carts, or third-party inventory APIs is highly valued.
Academic Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical industry mastery as a principal contributor.
Technical Skills Required
Modern Back-End Stacks: Advanced proficiency in modern programming languages (such as .NET/C#, Java, Go, or Node.js) configured for enterprise-scale platforms.
Cloud Architecture & Microservices: Hands-on expertise architecting native cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) utilizing structured microservice endpoints and event-driven patterns.
CI/CD Automation Pipelines: Deep understanding of modern DevOps frameworks, container patterns (Docker/Kubernetes), and continuous delivery infrastructure tools.
How to Apply
To join our technology division and build industry‑leading travel tech, please submit your technical profile and resume directly through our corporate recruitment framework.