Senior Software Engineer

Senior Engineer Home-based with occasional travel (Must be in UK) Permanent | Full Time Competitive salary + bonus and benefits About the role As a Senior Engineer, you'll be a “go to” person within your squad, bringing deep technical expertise to both hands-on delivery and the wider engineering approach. You'll define how features get built, drive them through to completion, and help others grow along the way. Around 80% of your time will be hands-on engineering, with the remainder spent guiding, mentoring and shaping technical direction. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer who's excited by the current AI-driven shift in software development, keen to embed AI capabilities across the engineering life-cycle, and eager to help evolve how a modern team plans, designs, builds and validates software. Your Opportunity

• Design and deliver well-crafted, tested and maintainable solutions across our digital estate
• Make effective use of AI capabilities throughout the engineering life-cycle, continually evolving your practice as tools and techniques develop
• Act as a technical “go to” for your squad, with a near-complete understanding of the systems you look after
• Define the approach to features and drive them through to completion
• Engage actively in product and engineering ceremonies, sharing ideas and constructively challenging assumptions
• Support and enable more junior engineers through knowledge sharing, coaching and mentoring
• Drive continual improvement within your squad and the wider engineering team
• Communicate progress, blockers and ideas clearly and openly
• Simplify and continually improve Haven's digital estate
• Keep developing your own capability, taking advantage of internal development tools and opportunities What we'd like you to bring
• Proven experience as a software engineer within a similar environment, using relevant modern technology
• Excellent working knowledge of one of C#, Dart or TypeScript
• Excellent working knowledge of one of .NET, Flutter, React or Node.js
• Excellent working knowledge of AI-enabled software engineering, including AI tooling, context management, prompting, agentic workflows and appropriate human validation
• Strong grounding in software design principles (SOLID, Clean Code) and testing practices such as TDD
• Good working knowledge of key technical areas including HTTP, REST, HTML and CSS, and/or relational databases depending on your focus
• Solid understanding of requirements engineering, story writing and acceptance criteria
• Familiarity with Agile, Lean and OKRs, along with CI/CD, logging, monitoring and alerting tools
• Good working knowledge of AWS or Azure, DevOps and SRE principles, and security concerns such as OWASP Top 10
• Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• A curious, pragmatic mindset with the ability to balance quality, sustainability, risk and pace Company Benefits
• 25 Days holiday + bank holidays
• Holiday buy scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 20% discount on both Haven and Warner Hotels holiday for you, family and friends
• One 4-night Haven break discounted 75%, per year
• Comprehensive well-being support
• Health cash plan
• Exclusive discounts with corporate partners
• Exciting career pathways, including Learning and Development opportunities such as Apprenticeships and Degrees
• Enhanced family friendly policies and pay (eligibility criteria applied) Interview Process
• Screening call with recruiter
• 1st Stage Teams interview with Head of Engineering
• 2nd Stage Pair Programming session with senior engineers