Senior Front End Engineer

Do you want to join us on a journey to change the trillion dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for data driven user experience. 

Vio.com believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveler the best accommodation deal, worldwide. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveler can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated Senior Front-end Engineers to help build the best user experience for our brand new product.

We are working with a modern stack consisting of ES2016, React 18, Redux and Ramda. We use Babel and Webpack and our server runs on Node.js, while our APIs are built with Go and Elixir. We employ unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing where it adds value, and use Typescript and ESLint / Prettier to keep our code base in good shape, even with multiple A/B tests running simultaneously. We work in a flexible, results-oriented team structure, focussed on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will do

• Work with your team to build innovative multi-device hotel marketplace products. Besides your own specialisation, you will be involved in shaping all key aspects of our customer facing products.

• Work closely with the team Product manager and Engineering manager to define and lead product feature projects.

• Relentlessly improve the end-user’s experience and validate your work via A/B testing with real users.

• Optimise device-specific web experiences, including mobile phones, tablets and desktop devices.

• Work on new initiatives to help our users find, book and manage their bookings directly from Vio.com.

• Identify opportunities for improvements in terms of code quality, automation tests, feature and overall product quality.

Who you are

• You have proven experience in front-end development (Modern ECMAScript, HTML5 and CSS3) - we don’t require experience with any specific framework, but we do expect experience with a modern set up and tooling environment.

• You have a strong passion for the end user experience, from pixels to performance.

• You can identify the right balance between technical excellence and good-enough to ship - and know when good-enough won’t scale any further and will push for a longer term solution.

• You have extensive hands-on experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, snapshot, performance and load testing.

• You are flexible, curious and data-guided in helping decide us what to work on.

• You have a keen eye for details, working closely with our designers to bring a smooth product to the end users.

• Experience with any of AWS, CodeFresh, Terraform, and any other CI/CD tools is a plus.

• Experience with mobile web development is a plus.

Why join us now?

• With a team of +180 FTEs, bootstrapped and profitable and growing +80% a year, we are one of Europe’s most successful startups these days, yet we are only getting started. 

• We offer access to ‘better deals’ to Millions of customers worldwide, adding spice and competition to a niche that has seen limited innovation for years.

• The company is evolving quickly to position itself among the global leaders in the travel industry. It is an exceptional journey to make; challenging, exciting, and a marvel to be a part of.

• We place huge importance on rewarding our employees for the value they generate by giving Stock Appreciation Rights to all employees.

Do you want to know if Vio.com is the right place for you? Find out by reading our career page.

What we offer: 

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow – you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture that values sharing knowledge every day, and has a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself.

• Excellent company culture, work across a highly committed and long-term focused team that shares the rewards of success alongside you

• A good compensation package including significant stock appreciation rights.

• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely.

• You will be part of a highly international team that enjoys working, eating & travelling together in one of the best office locations in Amsterdam

• We enjoy getting together to celebrate our wins with company events in Amsterdam and abroad

• A budget for your dream home office, relocation & work visa in The Netherlands for you and your family 

• Access to free mental health support via OpenUp.

 Blog posts worth reading: 

• Our hiring process

• How we survived the Covid Crises as a Travel Startup 

• Why we offer Share Appreciation Rights 

• Our Rebrand

We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, ages and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

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