Full Stack Software Engineer

at  On The Beach

Who we are
¡Hola!
Were On the Beach. Theres over 500 of us, mostly at home, and sometimes in our office in Manchester.
We send nearly two million people on holiday every year (not together) and were expecting to get to three million pretty sharpish. Why? Because were the only holiday company who truly gets why going on your jollies is the most wonderful time of the year.
With our market-leading offers, scalable, flexible and innovative technology, strong customer-value proposition and low cost base, were challenging existing players and redefining how customers book, manage and experience their holidays.
On the Beach Group plc is one of the UK’s largest online beach holiday retailers, with significant opportunities for growth so our storys only really just begun…
We’re on the lookout for talented, beach-loving people to join us and contribute to the next chapter of our story.
You will get to work on interesting projects and will be given the tools and autonomy to have the chance to make your impact on our growth plans.
We’re a down to earth and friendly bunch, with little bureaucracy or hierarchy, and whilst we may have grown in size, we’ve not lost our entrepreneurial spirit. It’s in our DNA.
You’ll find diverse teams, reflective of the world we live in and the customers we serve. We believe strongly that difference, not uniformity, is critical to our success. We know that better decisions happen when they are made by a range of voices, perspectives and experiences. As an equal opportunity’s employer, we value and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
What you’ll be doing
We have a fantastic opportunity for a full-stack engineer at On the Beach, to join the Shopping Experience squad. We prefer polyglots due to the hybrid nature of our stack, but first and foremost you must enjoy creating lovable and innovative customer experiences and have a desire to work with a variety of languages. We design and deliver off and on-site shopping experiences, and you will be working closely with teams from marketing, product, user research and design, data science and platforms, and the business itself. We value agility and pragmatism and see the benefit that comes from differing perspectives and approaches to make our teams awesome.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working closely with other engineers, designers, researchers, backend teams and our product managers throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure our products are delivered to the highest standards.
• Be a driving force for quality in everything you do
• Support the team take product designs and turn them into tech designs, estimate them, deliver, test them and deliver into customers hands.
• You will need to get hands-on and opinionated on everything from design, code quality, testing, CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, metrics and dashboards to API design and how to build highly efficient customer experiences that work across all major browsers and mobile devices

About you
We ask that youre as passionate about Software Development as we are!

The skills you will bring to the beach!

• JavaScript and TypeScript
• JavaScript testing (we use Jest and Cypress, but any is fine), and testing in general
• Git and CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab for both)
• API definition and implementation

• Working closely with other engineers, designers, researchers, backend teams and our product managers throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure our products are delivered to the highest standards.
• Be a driving force for quality in everything you do
• Support the team take product designs and turn them into tech designs, estimate them, deliver, test them and deliver into customers hands.
• You will need to get hands-on and opinionated on everything from design, code quality, testing, CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, metrics and dashboards to API design and how to build highly efficient customer experiences that work across all major browsers and mobile device