Senior Frontend Developer

About Lastminute.com

We aim to be an inspiring travel company, committed to enriching the lives of travellers offering them support and services whenever they need it.

Our values reflect our attitude to life and show who we are and the way we operate. They are stable, reliable and distinctive.

Position

• Writing well-crafted and maintainable JavaScript code
• Applying TDD to cover developed behaviour at unit, integration and acceptance levels
• Developing simple and cost-effective solutions
• Improving the Company's codebase by regular code reviews
• Participating in architecture definition
• Collaborating with web designers to build high-quality, standards-compliant web pages
• Being a proactive member of an Agile team
• Supporting the Product Owner to define functional and nonfunctional requirements for our products
• Ensure your responsibilities are aligned to the Company’s objectives and vision

Your qualification

• Expert in JavaScript. You understand concepts like prototypal inheritance, lexical scoping, closures and what is ‘this’ about. You know when and how to apply JavaScript design patterns. Terms like hoisting don’t sound strange to you
• Git as version control system
• Basic knowledge about HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap
• Very good English communication skills, Italian is a plus

Will be a plus

• TDD/BDD practitioner
• Refactoring techniques
• Experience with JS build and dependency management ecosystem (Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman, Bower)
• Experience with module standards (CommonJS, AMD, ECMAScript 6)
• Ability to decouple business domain from the infrastructure code (DDD, hexagonal architecture)
• Functional programming
• Public personal projects / open-source contributor

What we offer

• Flexible working hours from 8am - 10am to 5pm - 7pm
• Internal transportation from Moncloa and ‘El Barrial’ train station to the office
• Vending machine card with free credit
• Medical insurance
• Relocation package

Additional details

Work environment

You'll work in a small, self-organized team on one of our travel products.

We adopt Scrum Agile methodology and software engineering best practices to achieve our ultimate goal: a clean, cohesive and maintainable codebase.

We take quality very seriously. Tests at different levels are not optional for us. We cross-check our code in code reviews.

We'll provide you with top-notch hardware, a Macbook Pro 15" with an external monitor. If you are an IntelliJ fan, we will provide you with a licence for it.

Technology

We deliver our user experience using modern HTML and CSS tools (Sass, Bootstrap) and MVC JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, Marionette). We use Jasmine for unit testing. The single page applications communicate with the backend services via REST. Our code is stored in Git repositories with Gitlab as a frontend to them.

On the backend, we run a service-based architecture implemented with Java/Spring stack. We persist our data in both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL datastores (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch).

Our high-traffic production environment comprises of more than 700+ virtualized Linux servers sustaining tens of millions of daily searches.

Never-ending learning

We offer both internal and external training. Every employee has an individual yearly budget to spend on courses or conferences. Since you will be dealing with your international colleagues, there are English courses available too.

We organize bootcamps for newcomers so that you can familiarise yourself with our philosophy of development in a safe learning environment.

We have dedicated tech coaches that will offer you a helping hand in case you get stuck with a technical problem.

We are international

We are a multinational company with main offices in Chiasso (Switzerland), Madrid, London and Bangalore. You will be expected to travel occasionally and if you are interested, there is an internal Erasmus program available to you. You can spend a couple of months in another office and work together with your international colleagues.