Senior Frontend Engineer

About FindHotel

FindHotel finds the best hotel deals from all major travel websites with one quick search, and is completely free to use!

Hotels often work together with several travel booking sites, such as Booking.com, Expedia and others, to help you book a stay in their hotel. Because each website can have a different price agreement with the hotel, the prices offered to you can vary a lot from site to site. That’s where we come in.

We compare offers from different hotel and travel sites in order to help you find the best hotel deals worldwide in every search.

We are focused on bringing our visitors hotel price transparency, comparing hundreds of different travel sites and presenting their offers in an easy to use interface. In order to bring you the best hotel offers possible, we work with an extensive supplier network and actively engage with trusted third party companies, who in turn, present dynamic content to our users.

So, when you want to book a hotel, be sure to compare prices first through our FindHotel service, so you can get the best deal for your hotel stay!

Position

FindHotel is looking for enthusiastic, motivated senior front-end engineers to help build the best user experience for our brand new product. You will collaborate with team members with a wide range of expertise, including other engineers, UX experts, data analysts, and a PO.

We are working with a modern stack consisting of ES2016, React 16, Redux and Ramda. We use Babel and Webpack and our server runs on Node.js, while our APIs are built with Go and Elixir. We employ unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing where it adds value, and use Flow and XO / Prettier to keep our code base in good shape, even with multiple A/B tests running simultaneously. We work in a flexible, results-oriented team structure, focussed on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will be doing

• Work with your team to build innovative multi-device hotel marketplace products. Besides your own specialisation, you will be involved in shaping all key aspects of our customer facing products 
• Relentlessly improve the end-user’s experience and validate your work via A/B testing with real users
• Optimise device-specific web experiences, including mobile phones, tablets and desktop devices
• Work on new initiatives to help our users find, book and manage their bookings directly from FindHotel

Your qualification

• You are a senior front-end engineer with at least 6 years experience in front-end development (Modern ECMAScript, HTML5 and CSS3) - we don’t require experience with any specific framework, but we do expect experience with a modern set up and tooling environment
• You have a strong passion for the end user experience, from pixels to performance 
• You can identify the right balance between technical excellence and good-enough to ship - and know when good-enough won’t scale any further and will push for a longer term solution 
• You are flexible, curious and data-guided in helping decide us what to work on 
• You have a keen eye for details, working closely with our designers to bring a smooth product to the end users
• Mobile web development affinity is a plus 

Is FindHotel the right place for you? Find out by reading our CEO's blog post.

What we offer

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow – you'll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture which values sharing knowledge every day and has a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself
• A profitable company with fast growth and a great scale opportunity
• A competitive compensation package + perks and benefits (including Stock Appreciation Rights)
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent in the office 
• You will be part of a highly international team in a fun work environment
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional bbq in our garden

Additional details

What a day in the office might look like

In the morning, you and your fellow engineers sit down with your Product Owner, UX designer and a Data Scientist to discuss the trajectory of an ongoing A/B test. You decide together that based on available data, a new variation for the way we display room perks on the mobile search result page is expected to improve conversion. After lunch you and the UX designer sketch the variation which you will build together with your fellow teammates. After you deploy your experiment to the live site you'll be brainstorming about that new feature you want to build for the tablet optimised version of the website, which is added to the backlog of test ideas. After a few days, the Data Scientist will update the team on the status of the A/B test, for which you and the team will plan follow up tasks in the next planning session.

The squads

You will be working with one of our multi-disciplinary squads to help you shape the product to our users' needs. We currently have three customer facing squads, one working on the search funnel, another squad dedicated to our booking / checkout process and a new squad focussing on retention of our users. We are happy to work with you throughout the recruitment process to find the right squad for you to start in. You will work together with other squads such as performance marketing and customer support, as well as the teams that are responsible for building the services used by the product, such as live offer data, caching and event tracking solutions.