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