Parkdean Resorts
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Senior Software Engineer – Customer Technology
People trust Parkdean Resorts for their holidays, and the websites, booking journeys, and applications that make those experiences happen need to be built flawlessly. You’ll join the team shaping the technology that supports millions of bookings, searches, and confirmations—with your code having direct impact.
About the Role
Parkdean Resorts is the UK’s largest holiday park operator, with families relying on seamless digital experiences to plan their getaways. Your work in tech ensures every holiday booking works perfectly behind the scenes. We’re investing heavily in engineering excellence—standards, tooling, and the people who care about how software is built. Every line of code here is trusted by customers to deliver appointments and bookings without fail.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join a product-focused squad alongside Test Engineers, Product managers, and Delivery teams. You’ll report to a Lead Software Engineer who sets the technical bar and collaborates closely to define and execute ideas.
This role is not corporate IT—it’s customer-facing platform engineering. You’ll focus on the applications and services that drive:
- Customer-facing websites and booking platforms.
- Integration with Salesforce and other CRM/CTM systems.
- Infrastructure and CI/CD tooling (owned by the Cloud & Platform team), so you can focus on what matters: writing code that works, scales, and ships.
Responsibilities
You will:
Build Mission-Critical Customer-Facing Features
- Lead development of features used by millions daily (bookings, searches, confirmations, emails).
- Own a sprint backlog from refinement to production, ensuring technical design is robust and clear.
- Write professional, scalable, and maintainable C#/.NET, JavaScript (Vue/React/Next.js), SQL Server, and Azure app service code.
- Ensure integrations with third-party systems (e.g. Salesforce, payment providers) are reliable and efficient.
Own Quality, Security, and Maintainability
- Deliver code that is readable, tested, secure, and production-ready.
- Plan and implement automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end). Avoid lazy shortcuts—aim for defensive testing to prevent regressions.
- Implement security best practices to mitigate risks in a highly available and trusted platform.
- Participate in oversight of incident handling: diagnose in production systems and assist in post-mortems focused on system safeguards.
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Shape Your Squad’s Technical Direction
- Collaborate with the Senior Engineer Lead to make design decisions and scope requirements.
- Anticipate technical challenges before feature refinement—prevent work on ill-advised solutions.
- Raise technical debt, fragile code, or risky new feature requests early.
- Foster a blameless engineering culture.
Contribute Beyond the Code
- Participate in onsite critical incident support, diagnosing application-level failures and providing resolution.
- Represent engineering in cross-domain discussions with Product, Testing, and Leadership.
The Stack
Essential Skills & Experiences
- C#/.NET – Deep experience writing production-grade applications.
- JavaScript component frameworks – Strong background in Vue.js (primary), or React or Next.js. Knowledge of frameworks’ core principles (state management, reactivity, etc.).
- SQL Server – Writing queries, designing schemas, querying broad index optimisation and performance tools.
- Source control – Adherence to Git/Azure Repos processes, including code review as a core practice.
- Testing culture – Experience with automated testing (end-to-end, integration, unit) with nuanced judgment on where to apply them.
- Cloud-native architecture – Familiarity with Azure services (App Services, Functions) and familiarity with DevOps/CI/CD principles.
Desirable Skills
- Sitecore CMS – Experience with Content Management Systems in a delivery-focused role.
- Salesforce integrations – ESAs (enterprise systems)—writing API calls or automating flows.
- Test Automation – Experience with Cypress, Selenium, or Playwright for end-to-end validation.
- Security & Compliance – Experience with PCI DSS or GDPR-compliant systems and code.
- Legacy Systems – Patience and skilfulness in diagnosed and modernising Classic ASP or legacy network protocols.
Who We’re Looking For
We want senior hands with:
- Three+ years in commercial software engineering on actively shipping systems.
- Strong ownership of features from start to finish—minimal hand-holding expected.
- Judgment on when to slow down for review, refactor, or delay.
- Anti-glyphicutosity culture – endless tolerance for incremental software advancement, or code that vaguely “works but feels dirty.”
- A proactive, 听力（if there are too many failing tests) risk-taking mindset, with passion for high-quality systems design.
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You’ll fit here if you:
- Crave engineering conversations alongside development.
- Approve of paying down technical debt when appropriate.
- Take delight (or responsibility) in robust tests and elegant code.
Why Work Here?
Outside of the role’s impact, our rewards are just as meaningful:
Convenient Benefits
- Employee Assistance Programme. Counselling and support at all hours—because your wellbeing matters 24/7.
- Holiday Perks – Mark down your stays 50% for you, 25% at a friend/family rate when booking with Parkdean Resorts.
- Team Discounts – 30% off leisure activities, food, drinks, and retail across the organisation’s parks.
Hands-On Perks
- Brand Deals: Catered savings across food shippers (e.g., HelloFresh), gyms and fitness centres—a discount database flexing your purchasing power.
At All Levels, We Care
Our parks are in locations tourists love, and we’re proud stewards of the natural environment, communities, and people. We rally our organisation around a mission for long-termPartner Guest Trust.
Fit for Our Culture
At Parkdean Resorts, every park exists to offer moments to remember. That connection matters—great service is authenticity. So we build relationships, with each other and our guests.
Some formal note on fitting:
Background checks mandatory: If suitable—visible safeguarding policy includes Disclosure & Barring/NRPB process.
Reasonable adjustments: If you require particular support during recruitment or working life, contact ** Konstantinopolis@ParkdeanResorts.co.uk** (Name Tom Separate) to organise talk.
Come build software nurtured in culture that ships joy by the million. We’re the heart of the park—join us, achieve, and help us write the next chapter in holiday making.
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