Senior Front-end Engineer: Angular at LuckyTrip

About the job

WHAT’S LUCKYTRIP?

LuckyTrip is an award winning travel app that lets you find unique trips in one tap, all within your budget.

Set your budget, tap the ‘Lucky’ button and instantly see a complete trip to a random destination. Each trip gives you:

Somewhere to go: The cheapest flights from Skyscanner.

Somewhere to stay: The best places to stay from Booking.com.

Something to make you happy: Unique handpicked things to do, chosen by us.

We love finding the most unique adventures. Think pink lagoons, secret beaches and haunted Romanian forests…

We launched 6 years ago and we’ve had an amazing response:

App Store ‘Best of 2015’ award by Apple.

Regularly featured on the App Store front page and currently #1 in the Travel section.

Featured by major press publications – Techcrunch, The Times, Evening Standard, Scotsman, City AM, Stylist, Tnooz, ProductHunt + more…

Fully funded – backed by high profile angel investors, Founders Factory and easyJet.

What our users say – 5* App Store reviews:

“This app is my new obsession”

“Finally the app I’ve been dreaming someone would make…”

“Sorted a weekend away in the pub in 5 mins…”

We’re a young, small team and we love what we do. After an amazing UK launch we’re ready to take LuckyTrip global. Fancy it?

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

You’ll work closely with the founders to build a hyper converged cloud based system with multichannel architecture that can transport any human or animal from their own home to a randomly generated location. For free.

^ not really, but you’ll be doing some seriously cool stuff, like:

• Building and maintaining the LuckyTrip WEB app!

• Helping us remain the #1 Travel Inspiration app by continuously improving the LuckyTrip app experience.

• Work closely with our product team to develop cool product ideas.

• Integrate with the LuckyTrip API and work with our backend team to architect solutions for challenging problems.

• Help shape the company tech culture with new ideas and experience.

• Manage the LuckyTrip product internationally.

• Manage WEB app releases.

• Keep up to date with the latest WEB technologies.

• Maintain the WEB team's legacy in being the first platform to adopt new features and the team with the most MVP awards! 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Our success depends on our team so we only look for the best. Not only have you got to be brilliant technically, you should be super motivated, passionate, enthusiastic and an amazing team player. You’ll have a ‘can do’ attitude and always look for solutions, not problems. You’ll also get weirdly aroused at the thought of travel… we don’t blame you.

Key skills:

• Front-End Angular: HTML5, CSS 3.0, Angular 7.x+, JavaScript.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent demonstrated experience.

• 5+ years of experience in application development.

• Experience using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

• Knowledge and use of Restful web services, Webpack.

• Knowledge and use of JavaScript libraries like JQuery and CSS preprocessors like Sass, Less.

• Version Control – GIT

• Application Servers – Apache, Nginx.

• SEO best practices.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience).

• Work remotely from home.

• Weekly team socials.