Rentalcars.com is looking for a Frontend Specialist Software Engineer to join an exciting new team within the business.
Working on a significant new product, your role will be to take a leading hand in delivering and enhancing an exciting new multi-tiered high performance website. You will work in a small Agile team using a broad range of leading edge technologies.
This is a fantastic opportunity to experience the excitement of working in a start-up atmosphere with the backing and security of a large and very successful e-commerce business supporting you.
We want people who will thrive in a start-up environment, who are motivated, enthusiastic about technology, have the drive to deliver and succeed and always have the thoughts of both the customer and the business in mind when delivering.
About us
Rentalcars.com is the world’s largest online car rental reservation agency - arranging over 6 million rentals a year in 42,000 locations in 167 countries across 40 languages. Our mission is “Helping people experience the world” and our business and market sector is growing rapidly with roughly 40% year-on-year growth.
As a part of the Priceline Group we are part of the world’s leading and most valuable travel company. Other group companies include: Booking.com the world's leading online hotel reservations agency, Priceline.com, Agoda.com and Kayak.com. Priceline group is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: PCLN) and was ranked in Fortune's 7 fastest growing technology companies in 2013 as well as being one of Fortunes most admired companies.
Role Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer:
Act as technical resource for front-end development.
Delivering excellent frontend components for the systems websites with clean design principals and clear user journeys.
Promoting and practices engineering excellence principles such as clean code, code reviews and pair programming appropriately where required.
Brainstorming new and innovative ideas that improve efficiency and/or business results.
Writing technical documentation.
Writing tests to maintain quality within the product base.
Monitoring of our applications so that we can strive to deliver the best customer experience.
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Liaising with senior engineers and technical staff and suggesting appropriate technical solutions to problems.
Working in an agile environment, ensuring the appropriate balance is struck between delivering and providing a quality product.
Contributing to the architecture as well as the development of the website.
Teach and mentor more junior members of staff as we grow.
Technology/skills required
Essential
AngularJS
jQuery
HTML / CSS
UI/UX Understanding and principals
Extensive knowledge of cross-browser specific issues
Restful web-services / JSON
Testing Frameworks
Tomcat / Jetty
Build tools, (e.g. Maven, GIT, IDE)
Have worked in an Agile environment.
Desirable
Template technologies: Thymeleaf (or another such as Freemarker)
SpringMVC
Java
Google API’s
JIRA, Bamboo etc.
Required Experience
Candidates applying for the role of Software Engineer are required to have the following:
Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
Roughly 3+ years commercial experience as a front-end developer or similar role
Front-end website development experience including HTML, CSS and AngularJS
Extensive software engineering experience in modern web development tools and frameworks
Ability to write high quality code and experience with MVC and IOC frameworks
Experience of TDD and proven ability to write and maintain automated test suites
An ability to understand technical requirements and provide timescales for delivery of features.
Familiarity with Agile development and experience of working in an Agile environment
Experience of troubleshooting problems throughout the lifetime of an application
Experience of working with code repositories for example Git, SVN
Desirable Experience
Experience of having mentored more junior colleagues
Demonstrable experience of collaboration with non-technical stakeholders
Eagerness to learn and maintain pace with upcoming web standards and technologies
In-depth understanding of Continuous Integration systems such as Hudson or Jenkins
You will get from us:
A market leading salary in Central Manchester with a fast growing .com.
The chance to make a real contribution to an exciting rapidly growing product.
An opportunity to accelerate your career and quickly progress into a more senior role with a globally growing Internet business.
Lots of interesting and challenging full-stack development work using the latest technologies.
A fantastic working environment - a friendly, informal, vibrant and comfortable place to work. We employ circa 1000 in Manchester and due to the global nature of our business we have 65 + different nationalities in our Manchester offices.
The opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team of developers and designers in an environment containing multiple development teams. We employ circa 45 Java developers across different teams in the business.
An opportunity to attend coding events within the business such as lightning talks, code dojo’s and hack days
Salary will be dependant on experience
About Rentalcars.com
Travel1500 employeesFounded 2004
Global online platform for comparing and booking rental cars.
