Holiday-Rentals.co.uk is hiring!


Holiday-Rentals.co.uk advertises over 50,000 private holiday homes in over 60 countries for over 30,000 customers.

Based in London and founded in January 1996, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk was acquired in 2005 by U.S.-based HomeAway, Inc., the world leader of the private holiday rentals market. Together with the HomeAway websites in the U.S. and Europe, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk provides holiday home owners with the most efficient method for generating bookings, and travellers with the largest and most trusted source for finding a holiday rental. Advertising over 50,000 properties worldwide, the site receives over 45,000 visits every day.



We operate in a fast-moving, flexible and informal environment. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service, efficient production systems and industry-leading online and offline marketing. It's a fun place to work and we favour getting the right people involved in the right projects over hierarchy. We have a strong international feel to our business with teams in France, German, the US, UK and many multi-lingual staff.

We are based in spacious, air-conditioned offices in Hammersmith, West London. Holiday-Rentals.co.uk does not discriminate on race, gender or age - but you must be within an easy commute of our offices, or be prepared to move to somewhere nearby.

We have the following positions available:

Senior Developer - Java/J2EE/Spring/SOA

Location:

Hammersmith, West London W6

Opportunity:

We are looking for two very strong Java developers to build out a new enterprise-wide development. The SOA architecture, primarily based on an open source Java stack, will be made up of leading technologies to include Capistrano, Cruise Control, Maven, Spring, Spring MVC, Site Mesh, Resin, Gears, xDoclet, Emma, JUnit, JMock, Atom, RelaxNG, XML and REST based webservices. Experience of some of these, although not necessary all would be beneficial.

This is an incredible opportunity to join a young organisation at a critical time and implement part of the global services platform for the next generation of traveller. Only the strongest candidates need apply.

Position Description:

We need a flexible, self-starting team player with a solid, proven track record of large, complex internet projects. You'll ideally have a computer science background and will be able to showcase a portfolio of sites you have been involved in designing and building. You'll have developed content-managed, multi-lingual, high-availability systems and designed applications for production-strength architectures. You'll understand how to optimise relational databases, write fast queries and solve data processing problems elegantly.

You'll be happy working within a small international team of capable and enthusiastic developers with practical processes and to high standards. You'll have a keen eye for detail and a desire to maintain exemplary output. You'll be experienced in taking ownership and responsibility for functional sections from conception through design to implementation and support. You will also receive training as necessary to develop your technical skills further.

Skills required:

Production-strength internet development skills:
  • 5 yrs Java/J2EE object oriented development
  • 1 yr Spring Framework experience
  • Service-oriented architectural experience
  • Source control and configuration management (ideally Subversion,Gears,Cruise Control)
  • Rabid advocate of unit-test-driven development and an Agile methodology

Salary Range:

Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus and stock options

Contact:

Please do not just send a CV. If you are interested, e-mail Tim Boughton, European CTO at tim@holiday-rentals.com, include salary expectations and tell him why you think you are the right person for the job. No agents please.tim@holiday-rentals.co.uk.