Frontend Developer

Company Description

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

Job Description

As a software engineer at lastminute.com, you will work in our Product Engineering team and directly impact the lives of a global population of travellers. You will be involved in building, developing and maintaining our own scalable and resilient platforms to support an ever-growing number of customers. You’ll experience working in a company with a “growing-sharing culture” with a lot of opportunities to improve existing products and bring new ideas to life.

Qualifications

What your impact will be:

• Coding new features, fixing bugs and optimising code

• Working with the Team to break down User Stories into tasks that can be worked on

• Analysing performance metrics and logs using monitoring tools

• Updating technical documentation

• Collaborating with designers, testers, product owners and other developers

• Conducting and participating in code reviews

• Evolving and maintaining our websites

• Performance optimisations

• Technical reviews

Your expertise:

• Proficiency in:

  • JavaScript (ES6+),

  • HTML5,

  • CSS3.

• Experience with:

  • TypeScript,

  • Next.js,

  • Node.js and the NPM ecosystem,

  • Testing frameworks, especially Jest.

• Deep understanding of React.js, including its core principles, such as Hooks and state management.

• Git, git-flow and version control best practices.

• Communicative English

Non-essential Skills That Will Be A Plus:

• Practical knowledge of accessibility standards and best practices.

• Knowledge of CSS-in-JS libraries or frameworks.

• Understanding of Next.js server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and API routes.

• Familiarity with testing tools like React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.

• Browser, Server and CDN Caching Techniques.
  

Additional Information

Perks of working with us:

How we work together:

- An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from 10+ countries and over 48 nationalities)

- Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
- Flexible start and end of the working day with core hours from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

How we learn together:

- Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.

- Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other perks:
- 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes

- Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares

- We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.

Wish you were here? We do, too!

Selection process steps*:

- HR interview (10-30 minutes)

- Tech interview (Manager + 1-2 team members): soft skills + technical knowledge

- Offer extended
(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.