Ready to join a super high-growth & profitable scale-up (>1000% growth last 2 years) in a beautiful canal house office in Amsterdam? We are looking for a driven and experienced front-end developer to join our team!
Hotelgift and Flightgift are experience gift cards that can be redeemed for respectively 200,000 hotels and 300 airlines worldwide. We sell our gift cards worldwide (>50 countries) in 15 currencies and in 5 languages. The entire team is highly educated, internationally focussed (5 nationalities in-house; office language is English) and strongly motivated. To continue our high-growth we are looking for a front-end web developer to join our team.
Role
- Translate requirements and mockups into fully functioning features using JavaScript and HTML/CSS
- Continuously look for ways to improve our concepts and implement A/B tests
- Take ownership of sections of our concepts’ desktop, tablet, and mobile websites
- Test sites/applications in different browsers (versions), as necessary
- Be part of all stages of the development
Experience
- 4+ years of experience in a relevant role, preferably in a commercial environment
- Expert understanding of core front-end web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
- Experience with JavaScript libraries such as JQuery
- Experience with Wordpress
- Experience with templating languages is a plus
- Ability to write high-performance, reusable code
- Experience troubleshooting cross-browser compatibility issues
- Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc.
- An understanding of the concepts behind REST APIs and knowledge about how to interface with them
- Knowledge of version control systems
- Develop new features based on product requirements
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience in (PHP) back-end development is not required but is an advantage
Behavior, skills/competences
- You are a (front) driver, a proactive team player, but you can also work independently
- You are someone who stands for his/her code
- You are interested in discovering and keeping updated with the latest technologies, languages, and frameworks, and you are able to choose the best tool for the job at hand
- You are communicative, social and focused on collaboration
What do we offer?
- Competitive salary with bonus plan
- Pension plan
- Fast laptop
- Flexible hours
- Opportunity for significant & fast impact
- Space to develop your own ideas and projects
- Full reimbursement of travel expenses
- A young fast-growing international team
- An amazing 17th-century canal house office at Herengracht in Amsterdam
- A company boat
Why Hotelgift / Flightgift?
We give you the opportunity to work independently, enjoy plenty of freedom and gain experience in a fast-growing internet scale-up environment. We are, among others, nominated for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and LOEY talent awards. Both founders have an excellent academic track record, extensive experience in working with intellectual and driven teams, and give lots of trust and freedom for own initiatives.
What's next?
Interested? Email your CV and motivation letter to l.daniels@hotelgift.com