Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here.)

 

About the role

Hybrid

Wally is the team powering Skyscanner’s Landing Pages Platform — the engine behind the pages millions of traveller’s land on every day. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help shape the technical direction of high-impact services that sit right at the front door of our product.

This is a role for someone who loves solving distributed systems puzzles, building platforms other teams genuinely enjoy using, and balancing speed with safety. You’ll work closely with Product, Marketing, Audience and other internal stakeholders to ensure content changes are safe, observable and fast to roll out.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Designing scalable services: Lead the design and evolution of resilient APIs and services that power landing pages across Skyscanner, shaping the technical roadmap along the way.
• Breaking down big problems: Partner with product and marketing to turn ambitious ideas into predictable, shippable increments with clear business impact.
• Raising the reliability bar: Define, measure and improve SLOs, continuously levelling up resilience, performance and production readiness.
• Evolving Contentful workflows: Make publishing safe, fast and delightfully simple for non-engineers through smart integrations, tooling and guardrails.
• Strengthening observability: Build meaningful dashboards and alerts in New Relic so teams can move quickly — with confidence, not crossed fingers.
• Owning ingestion pipelines: Extend secure, well-versioned agency publishing interfaces that are simple to operate and built to scale.
• Embracing AI-assisted engineering: Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows to help design, deliver and validate high-quality software — from accelerating discovery and prototyping to strengthening test coverage and code reviews.

About you

• Deeply experienced in Java: You bring strong Java engineering skills and solid foundations in distributed systems design and operations.
• Cloud-savvy: You’ve built and run services in AWS and are comfortable with service-to-service communication patterns.
• Reliability-driven: You have a track record of improving testing, observability and production readiness in critical systems.
• Observability-fluent: You’ve worked hands-on with tools like New Relic (metrics, tracing, alerting) and know what “good” looks like.
• AI-curious and agent-ready: You actively use (or are excited to use) AI-powered tools and agents to support system design, accelerate delivery and validate software quality — while applying strong engineering judgement.
• Technically influential: You can lead delivery end-to-end — from discovery and architecture to running and iterating in production.
• Collaborative and generous: You mentor others through pairing and thoughtful feedback, and communicate clearly across enginee