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Senior Frontend Engineer
Contract type
Part-time
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
Senior Front End Engineer at Pitchup.com responsible for adding features to the customer and campsite-focused site using Vue.js and helping modernise the front-end approach, including exploring BFFs and micro-frontends.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
- Pay
- GBP 75,000 – 82,000 / year
What you'll do
- Adding features to the current customer and campsite-focussed site using Vue.js, aiming to deliver code into production deployment in the first week
- Working with team members and Product Owner to suggest, design and develop changes to UI and UX
- Suggesting and implementing changes to the front-end architecture of the sites, adding meaningful input into design documents, discussion and plans
- Playing an important role in the improvement of development practices
What we're looking for
- At least 3 - 5+ years of experience as a Front end developer, ideally within a scaling business
- Demonstrable proficiency in Typescript, Vue.js, HTML5 and CSS3
- An appreciation of the challenges regarding building adaptive and responsive websites
- Care about code quality and familiarity with testing front-end code using various frameworks (e.g. Jasmine, Mocha, Chai, etc.)
- Good understanding of workflow and tooling (such as Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman, Yarn etc.) in relation to front-end development
- Able to solve problems in a structured way
- Able to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues
- Team player, self-motivated, able to plan and prioritise effectively
- Experience of working as part of an Agile development team
Nice to have
- Relevant knowledge of the OTA sector
- Up-to-speed with modern front-end development and an appreciation for the pros and cons of techniques like BFF or micro-frontends
- Experience of working with both internal and third-party APIs
- Degree in a related discipline
Benefits
Employee assistance helpline with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
- Work-from-home office equipment allowance
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
- Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
- Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
- Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Cycle to work scheme
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About Pitchup.com
The leading website for outdoor holidays
Pitchup.com is the leading website for outdoor holidays, making it a doddle to book camping, glamping and caravan sites all over the world, with over 5,300 to choose from. The company is profitable and was founded in 2009 by former lastminute.com staff with a background in the holiday park sector.
Key facts
- 2009
- Outdoor holidays / travel booking
- Receives 33m annual visits and up to 7,500 bookings per day
- Total transaction value 50% up compared to 2022 (a record-breaking year)
- £260m worth of holidays have been booked through Pitchup
- Helped 9m holidaymakers make their great escape
- Launched a new mobile website this year, with the desktop version soon to follow
- 100% remote business with a nimble team of 70 based in 10 countries
- Site translated into 17 languages
- Members of the Financial Times' FT1000 fastest growing companies in Europe
- Awarded the Platinum Trusted Service Award by Feefo for achieving a customer rating of at least 4.5 out of 5 for 3 years in a row