Frontend Engineer London, England
Job description
Our Mission
Trainline is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide. Via our highly rated website and mobile app, people can seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from 270+ rail and coach carriers across 45 countries. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real time travel information on the go. Our aim is to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices.
Introducing the Frontend teams at Trainline
Our frontend teams are organised to be dynamic and empowered to deliver quality features efficiently. They are focused on key areas of the product and manager their own roadmap to produce innovative solutions using state of the art tooling.
As a Frontend Engineer at Trainline, you will...
- Deliver new functionality or features, using the most appropriate tools & techniques
- Ensure quality is at the heart of everything you do
- Continuously improve the codebase
- Use A/B Testing to find the most valuable solution for customers
- Keep our customer as the number one priority
- Take ownership of the development lifecycle from code to production, including deployment and monitoring
We'd love to hear from you if you...
- Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment
- Love using Agile development practices
- Have good testing practices
- Have hands-on experience in software development and delivery
- Have great communication skills
- Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest and a team player
- Have a passion to learn new skills
Our Technology Stack
All our frontend teams will give you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and patterns. At our core we have:
- CSS, HTML, JavaScript
- React
- Typescript
- Node
- GraphQL
- AWS as our cloud platform
- New Relic and ELK stack as monitoring and logging tools
- Windows/Linux
And these are often supplemented by:
- Docker
- Terraform
- SNS / SQS / RabbitMQ
- Redis
- TeamCity / GitLab CI
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But why should you join?
You will be working in a high performing and collaborative multi-cultural team. We have over 42 nationalities across our 5 offices in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Barcelona and Milan who work closely together.
We want our people to stretch their minds, abilities, and share their knowledge. Each year we hold The Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment.
We've always paid special attention to flexible working as we value a strong work/life balance. The pandemic has taught us that a balance between remote working and being in a collaborative office environment leads to productive teams.
Our Culture
Coaches Over Heroes
We prioritise the focus on being one team over elevating the heroics of an individual, for us the true heroes are those who are excellent at nurturing, coaching and generous in sharing their knowledge with others.
Well-being
Everything that we do takes into account the morale of every member of our team, their opportunities for growth and for participation in exciting challenges.
Mentoring and Learning
We have a mentoring community that is constantly growing, we provide people with mentors or buddies from various teams.
Trust
We hire awesome people capable of making smart decisions - empowerment is a great enabler of agility. It is within a supportive team that you will feel the strength to thrive and try new things knowing that everyone will be there for you along the way.
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
