Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.
What’s Travelport?
Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.
We are on a mission to power the future of travel.
Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate.
What does a great Senior Front-End Engineer (React) do?
In this role you will be working on Productivity Automator, a self-service platform that allows our customers to configure rules to automate repetitive tasks and manage customer itineraries. You and your talented team will be collaborating closely every day to design and implement solutions that will continue to make Productivity Automator at the leading edge of automation in the travel business.
As a front-end engineer, you will collaborate closely with designers to define and optimize prototypes, and build components that are accessible, performant, and responsive. You will be collaborating with product stakeholders to spearhead important product design and usability decisions. Working alongside your engineering peers, you will design, review, and implement solutions to complex problems and deliver code to production quickly.
The impact of your work on Productivity Automator will be significant, the code that you ship will end up in the hands of agents globally that make the travel industry tick every single day. If you’re interested in collaborating with a great team, solving complex problems, and realizing your ideas quickly – we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities include:
- Playing a key role in the planning, design, and development of engineering solutions, with a focus on front-end
- Delivering high quality, robust and performant code.
- Coaching, performing code reviews and giving valuable feedback to peers on your team.
- Collaborating daily with designers, engineers, and product stakeholders to identity technical solutions to complex problems
Who we are looking for in this role:
- 5+ years’ experience in frontend or full stack development
- Strong experience in a modern JavaScript Framework (React preferably), HTML5 and CSS3.
- Knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+). Strong understanding of common JavaScript design patterns and concepts such as scope, closures, and prototypal inheritance.
- Ability to work with product owners and designers, helping to guide the product roadmap and act as a technical representative of the front-end team.
- Experienced mentoring junior team members and others to be self-sufficient.
- Familiar with unit testing JavaScript (preferably react-testing-library) and integration test frameworks.
- Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
- Experience with facilitating code and technical review processes (merge request, pair programming)
It would be advantageous if you have:
- Full stack development commercial experience (ideally Node.js and Express.js)
- Experience with modern frontend tooling, including CSS pre-processors, build tools (e.g. Webpack, Gulp), testing frameworks, transpilers and module loaders
Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:
- Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
- Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
- Take responsibility and own your work
- Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before
Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.
