Application Support Engineer, Secret Escapes

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Secret Escapes

Luxury travel platform

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Secret Escapes

Luxury travel platform

501-1000 employees

B2CPropertyTravelLifestyleMarketplace

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
MongoDB
AWS
Docker
TypeScript
JavaScript
Groovy
Python
Django
Redis
Jenkins
MySQL
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

501-1000 employees

B2CPropertyTravelLifestyleMarketplace

Company mission

Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.

Company mission

Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.

Top investors

64% female employees

3% employee growth in 12 months

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 headshot

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2020

$71.2m

SERIES E

Jul 2018

$67.4m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $286.3m

This company has top investors

Leadership

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.