Senior Software Engineer

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Luxury Escapes Full time

**Work options**: Remote
**Be part of the team transforming global travel experiences**

Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest-growing travel websites, with over 6 million members. We are growing rapidly & seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) team.

Are you a data-driven and product-minded engineer? These are some of the challenges you'll help solve:

- Architecting NodeJS backend services to communicate with each other efficiently and reliably.
- Implementing features with beautiful new designs on our React customer-facing website.
- Refactoring our React frontend to best follow industry best practices and simplify code.
- Develop future-proof systems for payment, analytics, and marketing.

**Working at Luxury Escapes**

At Luxury Escapes, our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays. We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.

**About the team**

Our cross-functional teams include Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers focused on delivering solutions and solving problems rather than simply completing tickets. The structure is flat, and the process is lean, with a culture of MVP, iteration, and "build, measure, learn" at the heart of everything we do. We share in-depth experience in Node/ Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, SNS, S3 Lambda, and more.

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is one of the few lucky teams that sit horizontally across all products at Luxury Escapes Our main priorities are to improve the customer experience and drive conversions. This involves working across all verticals (hotels, flights, experiences, etc,.) and with all our teams to get their features delivered to the customers in the best possible way.

Some recent projects:

- Creating the new face of LE with our brand-new homepage, showcasing the different travel deals we offer.
- Optimising the purchase flow, making it both simpler and modern in design.
- AB testing with Optimizely and front-end analytics practices to increase conversion.

**What you'll do**
- Deliver features and enhancements relating to the new Luxury Escapes Platform, to ensure all Luxury Escapes members, vendors and internal teams have the best customer journey experience.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design and develop software solutions that meet business needs and deliver value to customers.
- Implement and maintain APIs to enable integration with third-party services, such as airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and payment processors.
- Monitor system performance and reliability, and proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure maximum uptime and customer satisfaction.
- Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the online travel industry and evaluate their potential to improve existing systems or enable new capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior software engineers and participate in code reviews & other quality assurance activities to ensure high-quality software delivery.

**Relevant Skills**:

- Proficiency in JavaScript and its frameworks, including React, Node.js and Typescript.
- Solid knowledge of SQL, specifically PostgreSQL, for database management.
- Familiarity with RESTful API design principles and implementation.
- Experience in automated testing and continuous integration processes.
- Knowledge and experience working with microservices architecture.

**Our Perks & Benefits**

We consider our people one of our most important assets - and we want our team to love their working lives When you work for Luxury Escapes, you can look forward to:

- Excellent Remuneration package
- 20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences
- Health and Well-being programs
- A bonus day of birthday leave
- A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms
- We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview. _

**We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer, committing to responding to every applicant.


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