Front End Developer - Flights

Company Description

Job Description

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

Mission and Purpose

Our flight business is one of the cornerstones of the connected trip. We ought to offer the best and most convenient flights to every customer, those that start their trip by buying a flight or those that are complementing their existing journey with a flight. We will do this by having the best user experience available in a product that solves all the pain points of booking a flight today.

Cross-Sell and Value Team

The Flights Cross-Sell & Value team is a newly formed customer-facing team in the Flights track that focuses on helping the Flights customers to become aware of, find, and book an accommodation for the same trip. Think about customers who have just booked a flight. What are the best accommodation options for them? How and when to show these options? How to promote marketing actions to encourage customers to book the flight and the accommodation on Booking.com? How to explain the value of booking everything for the trip in one place? When to use machine learning to do this? Finding the answers to these questions will be the challenge of this multidisciplinary team

Front End Developer in the Flights team

As a Front End Developer in Flights, you will be a key part of the development process, making sure that we implement features from ideas to the end product. You will be part of a team that has full-ownership of everything related to marketing channels and will work with a multidisciplinary team of front end developers, backend developers, copywriters and UX designers. 

Our ideal candidate has an excellent eye for detail, pragmatic approach and an absolute commitment to making sure features are well implemented and bug free. We make our decisions based on experiments and testing, so you should be excited by taking a data-led approach to development. If you believe you’re also a passionate advocate for the user, and are looking to work in an agile, collaborative environment then we would like to hear from you!

• Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems.
• Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact.
• Advocating best development practices within the team.
• Be owner for teams’ microservices and services.
• Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborating with adjacent teams and other stakeholders to deliver on business objectives
• Contribute to Booking.com's growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.
• Experience working on products that impact a large user base or in an entrepreneurial startup environment.
• Passionate learners who aren’t afraid of new tools and technologies to build a great end-to-end customer experience.

We need self-starters who are great at solving problems, who initiate discussions, are solution-oriented, customer focused and believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset and tools.

We are looking for:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in web development.
• Strong software development experience with Vanilla JavaScript, TypeScript, React and NodeJs
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable code
• Experience troubleshooting cross-browser compatibility issues
• You care about user experience and doing the right thing for end users
• You're excited to work with technologies such as React, NodeJS, TypeScript, React Hooks, Docker, Kubernetes
• Very good understanding of APIs design and platform performance.
• Experience with service oriented architecture.
• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs. 
• Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc.
• Excellent communication; written and spoken.
• Experience of having developed software for the flights / airline industry would be of strong benefit. (this could be for an online travel agency, directly for an airline or a software services business)

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide.
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture.
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions.
• Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks.
• This position is open to worldwide candidates and in the case of relocation, we will assist you with a generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in London.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.