Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

We are a core technology company building and evolving our own scalable and resilient platforms to support our ever-growing number of customers. As a member of the lastminute.com product engineering team, you’ll be heavily involved in our mission of simplifying our travelers’ life, ensuring quality across all aspects of the platform. As Front End Engineer you will be working as part of a forward-thinking team, continuously collaborating  with talented and experienced UX/UI designers and backend developers

Key Responsibilities

• Researching, designing, writing and testing new web applications using Agile software methodologies
• Contribute to the improvement of our infrastructure, focusing on continuous integration, continuous delivery and monitoring
• Contribute to the R&D of the company stack, proposing effective solutions
• Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and/or external courses
• Interact with all stakeholders bringing our product to the next level
• Problem-solving and lateral thinking as part of a team, or individually, to meet the project needs

Essential

• + 4 years of experience in Web Applications using Javascript and some of its most common libraries/frameworks (ReactJS, Typescript, ES6, Webpack, etc.) and Web standards, CSS and HTML best practises.
• Interest in XP practices ( pair programming, TDD, code reviews..etc)
• Problem solving capabilities
• Positive and collaborative attitude
• Willingness to work inside a team
• Curiosity and passion for continuous improvement
• Fluent in English

What We Offer

• Working in an international agile environment using eXtreme Programming
• Bleeding edge technology stack ( Typescript, ReactJS, React Native, Kubernetes, Docker and more )
• Continuous learning program with internal didactic units
• Possibility to join conferences around Europe for continuous improvement
• Coding Dojo: a weekly training to learn and share coding techniques during office hours
• Internal technical conference (technical lunch)
• Flexible working hours
• Two days of remote working per week
• Possibility to join the Erasmus program (temporary relocation among our offices)
• Complimentary fruit, beverages, coffees and a dedicated lounge area with table tennis and table soccer
• Preferential prices reserving through our platform
• Discounts from external partners
• Powerful development workstation (last generation laptop, external monitor, etc)

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can generally expect a hiring process similar to the following one (please consider that based on location and availability the process can be slightly modified)

• Qualified candidates receive feedback concerning their application from our Recruiting team
• Based on role and experience, candidate might be requested to solve a coding exercise to submit on a public repository on Github. Exercise will be assessed by our internal Engineering team
• Onsite Coding -Techical interview: a coding exercise to solve together pairing with our Engineering team in your favourite programming language, plus a  talk about technical stuffs, experiences and analyzing possible production scenarios