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Front-End Engineer – Fully Remote
Are you an Engineer looking for a new challenge? Are you a problem solver, someone who relishes the chance to tackle complex coding challenges and craft elegant solutions?
Do you want to work on exciting projects that will make a real difference to people's
lives? Do want to join a business that is agile, ambitious and supports and encourages our developers?
If so, please read on.
Alternative Airlines is a fast-growing flight search and booking site. We have built a
strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with a friction-free flight booking
capability and an expanding, global base of delighted global customers.
We are seeking a talented front-end engineer to join our team and help us build exceptional user experiences for our website. As a front-end engineer, you will work closely with our design and product teams to translate designs and specifications into high-quality, responsive user interfaces. You will use your expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to implement and maintain clean, efficient, and scalable code. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with back-end engineers to integrate front-end components with server-side functionality and contribute to the development of our technology stack. If you are passionate about creating beautiful, intuitive, and performant user interfaces, we would love to hear from you.
What does our Tech Team look like?
Technology is central to everything that we do at Alternative Airlines!
Our in-house tech team is always pushing the limits. We rapidly design, develop and test new products to improve both the flight search and booking experience and streamline our internal processes. Our tech team are back-end and front-end engineers, digital experience and product specialists.
Alternative Airlines is enjoying high growth with yearly rates over 100% from £9m in
2020 to £28m in 2021 and £63m in 2022. We are targeting £100m in revenue by 2025. Our site and the booking process is a key part of our success and we constantly improving the platform and process.
Our tech team is defined by these characteristics:
- Flexible working - Choose where you work – fully remote or in the office. It’s up to you.
- Fast-paced culture – We deploy daily and spend less time in meetings
- In-house tech team – no agencies. Your work has a direct impact on a growing
business
- Work-life balance – Things outside of work matter
- Grow your skills – work on code that will teach you new skills and help you develop
- Challenging problems – Endless number of interesting and complex projects to solve
We work with latest frameworks and tools such as React, NextJs, Vercel and GraphQL, which means you’ll be able to write clean and modern code while staying up-to date with modern web technologies. You will be a part of our team, and your input and knowledge is valued.
A typical day for Front-End Engineers
Our front-end engineers work across the Alternative Airlines website front-end. Our team work on implementing new features into the flight booking process, creating customer-facing landing pages to promote new products and augment and enhance existing functionality. Working closely with UX/UI and design colleagues in our tech team, there are lots of opportunities for collaborative testing.
You will work in a cross functional team, having ownership and responsibility for the front-end of the Alternative Airlines’ site. The role will have real responsibility and decision-making authority to control and develop the platform of Alternativeairlines.com. You will have a hand’s on approach with a keen eye for bringing designs to life with great interfaces whilst maintaining the structural integrity and standard of the front-end codebase. Through effective design and implementation, the successful candidate will create excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
Person Specification:
- 2+ years front-end web development experience
- A passion for working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a keen eye for detail
- Experience with NextJs and React useful, but not essential
- Experience building mobile friendly and responsive designs.
- Understanding and experience of version control including Git
- Self-starter attitude, taking ownership and driving forward projects to completion
Benefits & Perks:
- Flexible Working – we allow our people to choose where they work best
- Highly competitive salary which is regularly reviewed
- Social events throughout the year
- Plenty of holiday - 23 days plus bank holidays
If the above hasn’t already told you that Alternative Airlines is a great place to work then, we also have some amazing benefits when working for Alternative Airlines:
- Flight credits of up to £1,000 per year based on length of service
- 2 extra wellness holidays per year focused on employee wellness
- Enjoy a 2-week paid sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Why work with us?
Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore, we have created a culture where we put our people first:
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- A focus on personal progression and development
- Opportunity to join an innovative and talented team
- Influence the next stage of growth of a fast-growing company
Great Place to Work 2022-23
Alternative Airlines is officially certified as a Great Place to Work 2022-23.
This certification was independently awarded by Great Place to Work ® after they conducted an employee survey that showed:
- 97% of employees agree that Alternative Airlines is a great place to work
- 97% of employees agree that they’ve treated as a full member regardless of their position
- 100% of employees agree that they’re made to feel welcome when joining Alternative Airlines
Want to know more? Please see www.alternativeairlines.com/work-with-us
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Front-end development: 1 year (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Work Location: Remote
