Job description

The Company

• We are a technology travel business located in the centre of beautiful Bury St Edmunds, with exciting plans for the future.
• We own and operate several major travel websites focusing on accommodation but also including visitor attractions, wedding venues and beach huts. They include Speedybooker.com, BeachHuts.com, BritainsFinest.co.uk, FishPal.com, Monasteries.com and UniversityRooms.com.
• Our booking engine, internally developed over ten years, also powers third party websites.
• We are building a property management system (PMS) to provide our properties with additional tools (turbo-pms.com).
• Our mission is to be our customers’ and vendors’ favourite booking platform/PMS.
• We aim to hire the highest calibre of people. Our values are to:
• Commit to personal excellence - Always look to learn and improve, be positive, proactive not reactive, tenacious to achieve incredible results, use every minute wisely, go the extra mile, and have fun!
• Work as a team - Be willing to offer help, humble to accept it, share and use best practice, honest, respectful, disciplined not to cut corners for short-term gain, selfless to seek the best for the company, not just yourself or your group.
• Passion for the product - Look to continually enhance our product, automate where possible, embrace and fix problems, use iterative development, and strive for perfection.
• Please see speedybooker.com for more information.

Responsibilities and Duties

• You will be given work that will have been spec’ed and planned into a fortnightly sprint process
• You will need to communicate with the Product owners and Technical team with suggestions/questions and improvements to specifications.
• You will report directly to our Scrum master.
• You will have daily scrum meetings.
• You will be involved in fortnightly retrospective meetings
• Improving codebase while implementing new functionality.
• Ensuring good quality of code.
• Improving performance of code.

Qualifications and Skills

“Must have” technical skills

• 3 or more years experience with C#
• Be able to lead and help team members.
• mySQL or SQL
• JavaScript
• HTML
• Css
• Visual Studio
• Experience with one of Angularjs/Vue.Js/React/Knockout.js
• JavaScript
• you must be able to demonstrate your design skills.

“Nice to have” technical skills / things you might learn

• Management experience
• ASP.Net
• MVCAndroid / iOS apps
• XML
• Have used Jira or similar software for managing projects

Other characteristics

• A degree in computer sciences would be an advantage but is not a requirement.
• We are looking for a talented individual who is organised, methodical, motivated, gives attention to detail, and can envisage building a long-term career within the company.
• Strong English written and verbal skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity to join an established profitable ecommerce/software business with exciting growth plans for the future.
• Above industry average salary (dependent on experience) plus 10% on target bonus plus pension contributions.
• Modern Office on Cornhill in the centre of Bury St Edmunds.
• Free car parking.
• Bonus scheme.
• Hybrid working (work from home up to three days a week)
• Employee benefits and rewards scheme
• Paid for training.
• Company events & social time.
• You will be joining a twenty-strong team of fun and hard-working sales people, account managers, and software developers.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £30,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Experience:

• .NET: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bury St. Edmunds IP33 1BE