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Awaze

Awaze

www.awaze.com

2 Jobs

656 Employees

About the Company

Awaze is Europe's leading managed vacation rentals and holiday resort business. Home to specialist self catering brands cottages.com, Hoseasons and Novasol, the company provides everyday amazing holiday experiences to more than eight million guests each year, with over 110,000 places to stay across 36 countries.

Listed Jobs

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Company Name
Awaze
Job Title
Junior Product Owner
Job Description
Job title: Junior Product Owner Role Summary: Own and drive the product backlog for the APEX platform—availability, pricing, and extras—across web and mobile channels, translating business needs into actionable user stories and supporting end-to-end delivery. Expectations: Manage backlog grooming, refine features, and collaborate closely with technical and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives that enhance guest and owner experiences. Deliver clear acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and value‑driven metrics while balancing day‑to‑day BAU tasks and long‑term transformation projects. Key Responsibilities: • Prioritize and groom the APEX backlog. • Translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios. • Coordinate Scrum/Kanban ceremonies and support Agile practices. • Collaborate with engineering, design, QA and data teams to ensure feature quality and alignment with objectives. • Contribute to testing, validation, and reporting to inform decision‑making. • Provide insights and analytics to support prioritisation and continuous improvement. Required Skills: • Analytical problem‑solving and data‑driven decision making. • Strong communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders. • Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban). • Basic understanding of APIs and data flows; interest in product architecture. • E‑commerce or travel‑industry knowledge an advantage. Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. • Agile certification (e.g., CSPO, CSM) preferred but not mandatory.
Manchester, United kingdom
Hybrid
Junior
21-09-2025
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Company Name
Awaze
Job Title
Software Engineer
Job Description
Job Title: Software Engineer – APEX Team Role Summary Back‑end focused engineer responsible for building and evolving a cloud‑native availability, pricing, and extras platform that consolidates legacy systems across the group. Works in fully autonomous, cross‑functional teams, driving architecture decisions, best engineering practices, and continuous delivery. Expectations - Own production reliability and DevOps responsibilities. - Collaborate with product, design and QA to deliver high‑quality features. - Mentorship and active participation in the wider engineering community. Key Responsibilities - Design, develop and deploy scalable services using C#/.NET Core. - Build and maintain cloud‑native solutions on AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS). - Implement Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or equivalent tools. - Design and optimize relational data models (PostgreSQL) and schema in non‑relational stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB). - Apply TDD/BDD, pair programming, and CI/CD practices to ensure code quality. - Contribute to platform architecture, technology selection, and long‑term roadmap. - Actively participate in scalability & performance tuning, monitoring, and incident response. Required Skills - Proficient in C# and .NET Core. - Experience with AWS cloud native services and IaC (Terraform). - Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. - Strong relational database skills (PostgreSQL) and experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB). - Demonstrated use of TDD/BDD, CI/CD pipelines, and pair programming. - Excellent communication, problem‑solving, and ownership mindset. Required Education & Certifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience. - AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, Developer) are desirable but not mandatory.
Manchester, United kingdom
Hybrid
05-11-2025