Skyscanner is
a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are
inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the
best prices. We employ over 1000 staff across eleven offices globally,
and, having reached market leader status, we were recently acquired by
Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While
we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us
to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth.
It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m people who
use us every month. We are unbiased and free, our secret is in our
unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to
everything the travel industry has to offer.
We are seeking senior full stack engineers to join us in our Barcelona office and be part of our highly distributed global team.
Do you relish working with the latest front end technologies
including react? If you enjoy a range of technical challenges you can
expect a variety of areas to contribute to- along with modern frontend
(we’re standardising around React) page speed and SEO are important to
us- we’re exploring micro-services and microsites powered NodeJS, with
isomorphic server-side rendered components. We’d also love you to be
willing to work closer to the server- side as needed, teams may have to
tie together API’s, create new ones, and work closer to the backend to
achieve great frontend performance.
We’re building some exceptional tooling, with deploy pipelines out of
the box, allowing our engineers to ship changes quickly. We're also
working on server side/hybrid rendering strategies for our iOS and
Android apps as well as looking at React Native.
Skyscanner operates in a Tribes and Squads model and we have created an engineering culture where there is a high level of trust, autonomy and transparency. Our engineers work
in autonomous teams (squads), they create their own backlog, they ship
code whenever they want and don’t have dependencies in order to deliver
to their users. Our engine uses global scale services, big data and
machine learning to capture, normalise and make sense of real time
information from our thousands of partners.
What you can expect as a senior software engineer
- A supportive, trusting and transparent working environment
- A place to look at things differently and challenge and offer solutions
- Overall responsibility of multiple key product feature components within your area
- You will define and implement services that make up a complex sub system within the scope of your area
- Collaboration across all relevant product engineering development lifecycles
- An opportunity to influence the engineers around you
What we are looking for
- An ability to converse in English is essential
- Previous job experience as a software engineer ideally within an internet economy business
- Metrics driven approach to decision making, prioritisation and continuous deployment
- Modern engineering mindset- moving fast with confidence backed up by experimentation and split testing
- Use of agile/lean methodologies for continuous delivery and improvement
- Comfortable balancing trade-offs between technical, analytical and
product needs and understand the difference between Single Page Apps and
Server-Side Rendering
- Strong customer focus and appreciation of what makes good product, UX and design
- You make others better proactively through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring
- Capable of building a new frontend codebase from scratch, scaling through component driven development
- Proficiency in modern frontend technologies e.g. ES6, Sass/Less,
Webpack, npm, frontend framework- React, Angular, Vue, Backbone and
HTML, CSS
- We don’t expect you to be a backend expert but would anticipate
experience with some, combined with a curiosity for others- JavaScript,
Java, Python
- It would be useful to have experience in large scale systems deployed to AWS
- Mobile Development experience while not required for this role could be useful
Why Us?
We are proud to have a working environment that sets our employees up for success, as well as all the usual perks you would expect from
barista machines to massage chairs, to free food, holiday buying scheme
as well as frequent townhalls with our CEO. What we really aim for is a
place where people can thrive, be trusted to make impact and ultimately
help us put our users first.
What you will get in Barcelona -
Situated in the Placa
Catalunya in Barcelona’s bustling centre, known for its many fountains
and statues and nearby some of Barcelona’s most popular attractions. Our
acquisition of hotel search company Fogg saw the birth of Skyscanner
hotels product and is a hub of product engineering activity. With space
to hire many more staff we are excited to welcome our new recruits.
Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can
reach over 80 million monthly active users whilst enjoying a high level
of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you
can thrive.
Join us now.
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