Lead Software Engineer

About Heidi

Heidi was born to make it easy for more and more people to discover the power of the mountains. We burst onto the ski holiday market in 2018 (formally known as Ski Zoom) and have seen exponential growth.

The company came from a desire to fix the lack of flexibility in the winter ski market. We help skiers and mountain lovers discover resorts that are hidden gems alongside the classics, and our clever tech is helping them to do it in a way that suits them best. We're a youthful, challenger brand, with an awesome culture, and we're shaking up a very traditional ski/mountain holiday industry.

Looking to the future, we have huge ambitions for growth. In 2024 we grew by 64% and expect to grow even more in 2025. Having come 63rd in the Times top 100 fastest growing UK companies, and shortly after securing £5.6 million investment, we are in a prime position to achieve our goals. But key to that is also growing the Heidi team with even more brilliant people than we have now. So we are looking for someone who will be fundamental to the success of our vision and is excited to help us drive that forward.

The engineering team

Heidi's tech allows us to give our customers a seamless experience. Our engineering team work to make our platform run smoothly with tools, automations and integrations that haven't been seen in the winter travel sector until now.

Our engineers are product-led, customer obsessed and curious. You'll work with cross functional team members in product, data, design and more to solve complex problems and constantly evolve our service.

What you'll be doing

• Developing our ASP.NET Core APIs and serverless systems.
• Improving the existing NextJS/React frontend or travel companion app.
• Building new features for our customers, internal tools to make our colleagues' lives easier, or integrating with a new supplier.
• Upgrading our platform and infrastructure as our business and traffic grow.
• Delivering work using agile methodologies.
• Contributing to cross cutting concerns that improve our engineering function.
• Being actively involved in the planning and technical architecture of our company roadmap.
• Helping the team meet its goals by collaborating with and helping other team members.

What you will bring

• Experience with cloud native ASP.NET Core APIs. (5 years c# language / ASPNET core)
• You're experienced with relational database design and performance optimization. (MySQL, SQL Server)
• You have experience with front-end Javascript frameworks and website performance. (javascript, react etc.)
• Docker experience for developer, testing and ideally production environments Bonus: if you have experience hosting your own application in real production environments with production traffic (not handing off to an ops team)
• Leadership experience within a team.
• Delivery focused but aware of the bigger picture and can design systems to adapt and change over time
• You can work and communicate effectively with other teams in the business and can provide a balanced perspective between technical and business priorities.
• You want to be a key member of a growing company, and have a direct impact on our success and are comfortable with the ambiguity this entails

How big is the team?

1x CTO

6x FS Engineers

Who's going to be your manager?

You'll be reporting to Nico , our CTO

The interview process

1. TA Screen (30 mins) w/ Luke, TA Partner
2. Technical Call Interview (45-60 mins) w/ Nico, CTO
3. Onsite Interview (120 mins) w/ Nico
   - coding/refactoring task
   - problem solving

- coffee-break/meet the wider team
4. Culture interview (30 mins) w/ Marcus, Co founder

Our employee benefits

• Salary of based on experience
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + 4 "me/wellbeing" days
• We have a hybrid working policy and are happy for people to balance their working week between the office and home.
• Vitality health insurance.
• Enhanced parental leave for primary /secondary carers and adoptive parents.

Additional employee perks

• £1,000 Heidi holiday credit + additional holiday discounts.
• A fun packed company social calendar including our summer party, end of term conference and budget for team celebrations
• £300 work from home budget

Our Commitment to inclusive hiring

We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status