Victor is a rapidly growing,
aspirational travel company, rewriting the rulebook for private jet
charter with a winning mix of technology, first class service and
booking transparency. Providing seamless access to 7,000 aircraft at
40,000 airports via a network of over 200 partner operators globally, we
make sure our customers are always connected, and always in control.
With
over 100 talented staff in London, New York and other global locations,
Victor is opening up luxury private charter to a brand new generation
of busy leisure and business travellers. We’re continuing to grow and
build. We’re winning awards too, most recently with the Sunday Times
Tech Track, Deloitte Tech Fast 50 and FT 1000 (the 3rd year in a row).
Find out more about us at www.flyvictor.com
Engineering Culture:
Victor’s
engineering culture is based on trust and respect for teammates,
constant democratisation of knowledge and decisions and a sharp focus on
business goals. We try hard, individually and as a team, to foster and
nurture this culture. Our development methodology is agile and
responsive to business needs. We have a very well defined way of how a
new idea/feature is delivered right from inception to production. We
have a flat organisational structure and a decentralised way of making
technology decision which gives each team members to incorporate their
ideas into the product after due peer review process. Peer reviews are
seen by both reviewer and reviewee as an opportunity to learn and share.
Tech Jamborees
Towards
democratisation of knowledge, we hold tech jamborees every friday where
a team member can share a particular piece of knowledge or part of
stack they have been working on to the rest of the team. The tech
jamborees are also an opportunity to share other cool things team
members may have been learning inside or outside of work. This may range
from robotics to the latest UI framework to any tinkerings with some
machine learning libraries. This is an open forum to share knowledge and
celebrate technology in general.
Victor Hackdays
We
conduct hackdays quarterly where the whole team gathers together and
spend the whole day hacking on stuff they always wanted to do in
technology space, inside or outside work. This is a fairly new
initiative and in the future we plan to have themed hackdays for various
parts of the business or even technology themes such as AI, ML and Deep
learning. Hackdays are a great way to own a problem statement and give
the solution a shape within a day. It is also a time to get to know your
team better. In future, we will be extending hackday invitations to
people outside the organisation. Pizza and Beer - the cornerstones of a
great hackday, are a given :)
Role:
We
have an opportunity for a Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.
We're looking for someone that has been there before and wants to make a
major mark in the transformation of the private jet industry and join a
team of like minded professionals that are highly motivated.
You will have a background of creating great looking, well designed front ends for the web using the latest tech stack.
Victors
tech-first approach is seeking scalability and operational efficiency,
it has to resonate with consumers and investors and should allow the
business to continue its expansion.
As a technology team we
aspire to the hacker culture. We care about what we do. We want to
produce simple, elegant solutions to difficult problems. We take pride
in getting the job done right. We want to improve as individuals and
improve the team and wider organisation around us.
We use modern
technologies, tools and methods to produce a product that our customers
love. We want our applications to be ubiquitous; any time someone is
booking a jet they'll be using the Victor platform.
Our Front End
Engineers help design, develop, and maintain the front ends of our
applications using Angular, React and React Native with a specific
emphasis on usability, performance, and agility.
The applicant
should be comfortable managing the entire process of software creation,
from customer and other stakeholders, through to the team of product
managers, testers & developers, and will include producing detailed
technical design. You will also share responsibilities for tools,
processes, infrastructure, etc.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain applications with great user experience
- Incorporate industry wide best practices for UI elements
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Serve as a subject matter expert
- Comply with project plans and industry standards
Requirements
- Proven experience building web applications in JavaScript, CSS & HTML
- Proven experience with the decision making and leadership of adopting and removing technologies and patterns
- Great working knowledge of one or more SPA frameworks such as React or Angular
- Excellent software design skills for JavaScript applications
- Strong skills in building and maintaining CSS systems
- Know the importance of efficiency and optimisation on the web, particularly with regard to mobile devices
- Awareness of the pitfalls of older browsers, and the capabilities to incorporate graceful degradation
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of task runners such as Gulp/Grunt
- Strong understanding of version control, ideally Git
- Experience with running virtual environments using Docker/ Vagrant
- Reviewing the work of others in order to maintain a good standard of work throughout the department
Benefits
After
successful completion of your probation period, you will be eligible
for our company paid Private Medical Insurance, pension scheme and
Perkbox for a range of other brilliant benefits.