Fullstack Developer, Secret Escapes
Luxury travel platform
Job no longer available
Luxury travel platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
Role
Who you are
- Strong backend experience working with Java based frameworks (e.g. Grails, Spring, etc)
- Some experience working with React, TypeScript and NodeJS
- Experience with automated testing and test driven development
- Experience working with supporting tools such as Git, Jira, CI/CD etc
- Great communication skills, and the ability to ask questions and shape the work you will be doing
- Experience with building and consuming REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Good knowledge of software design patterns
- And you are…
- Obsessed with providing the best user experience
- Someone who delivers high quality work on time
- Keen to contribute to team discussions to help shape the work we will be doing
- Excited to learn and develop your skills
- Flexible to work on different parts of the product and tech stack
- Not afraid to challenge the status quo
What the job involves
- As a software engineer you’ll be part of a cross-functional team, working together with other engineers, designers and the product team to shape the work that will be done
- Working with a mix of technologies including Groovy, Grails 4 (framework based on Java Spring boot), Serverless backends (using TypeScript and GraphQL) and some frontend work using React with TypeScript
- Involved in the full life cycle of a feature, from initial scoping, design and discovery through development, QA and release
- Part of the wider tech communities, such as architecture or frontend communities where you can share ideas and learnings with other engineers, and help to shape what the future of the tech stack at Secret Escapes
Application process
- 1st stage interview with Engineering Manager. This is an opportunity for you to find out more about the position and for us to learn more about you and your career to date (45-60 minutes)
- Technical Task. To be completed at home and should take you no longer than 3 hours
- Final stage interview involving a paired programming task and meeting with the Senior Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering and meeting colleagues in Product and UX. (2 hours)
- Offer!
Our take
Secret Escapes operates a “members-only” site with hand-picked hotel and holiday time-limited offers. Each week it runs short ‘flash sales’ with as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, providing access to boutique experiences even to those who couldn't normally afford them.
The difference with online travel agents like Booking.com, is that Secret Escapes inspires travel by communicating great travel deals, rather than existing as a place where people visit to book trips they already have in mind. In fact, the majority of people who book through Secret Escapes say that they weren’t even planning trips to those destinations before doing so.
Like many of its travel market companions, Secret Escapes was affected by the pandemic, but survived due to an injection of investment from previously secured backers. The company smartly used the onset of mass customer service requests to better its customer service channels, and it now seems set to pursue the success it was on-course to achieve before this major upset.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2020
$73.8m
SERIES E
Jul 2018
$69.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $294m
Company benefits
- 20% staff discount of all Secret Escape bookings
- Holiday parties and quarterly results celebrations
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alex Saint
(CEO)Started his career in marketing at Unilever before founding a travel deals company in 2005 and then Secret Escapes in 2010.
Tom Valentine
(Marketplaces CEO)Studied Psychology at Oxford before starting his career at eBay in Strategy & Business Development.
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