Lead Engineer, Pitchup.com
Growth Team
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Booking site for campsites & caravan parks
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Booking site for campsites & caravan parks
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make it a doddle to book a campsite, caravan park or glamping site in over 70 countries.
Role
Who you are
- Some knowledge of building scalable, complex, fault-tolerant, secure solutions
- Knowledge and use of DevOps practices and how they can be employed to improve developer productivity and code quality
- Commercial experience with cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS and FaaS/Serverless), and Docker/containerisation
- Experience of designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- A good appreciation of development best-practices, including SOLID, design patterns, clean code, TDD and CI/CD
- The ability to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of playing a technical lead or lead/senior developer role for at least a year
- 4+ years of experience working as a full stack developer in a commercial, agile environment
- Experience of developing extensively either with Python or JavaScript (our primary development languages)
- Exposure to Google Cloud Platform a bonus!
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join the business to help extend and support the technical estate that underpins this growing, dynamic business . We have lots of exciting projects on the horizon, including replacing our existing site, the inclusion of campervan and motorhome hire in our roster of rental possibilities, a cloud migration and supplier portal changes, amongst many others. We are looking for someone to own, shape and execute some of these projects with colleagues inside the Engineering team
- Lead a work-stream, own the deliverables, and ensure solutions are designed and built to a high standard
- Work with the Head of Engineering and Head of Product to ensure agreed work is carried out across the team and delivered on time
- Implement solutions across our technology stack, and be unafraid to get involved in infrastructure and related matters beyond your code – this is a hands-on role!
- Mentor/pair with other developers to assist in knowledge and skills transfer
- Promote a culture of quality within the team via:
- Emphasis on developer testing and practices such as TDD
- Clean code, refactoring, SOLID and related disciplines
- Code reviews
- Continuous integration/deployment
- Champion development best practice across the entire team
- Foster a culture of technical improvement within the team (e.g. via show-and-tells, demos, proof-of-concepts, pet projects or similar)
- Play a key role in technical and architectural discussions regarding the longer-term vision for development at Pitchup.com , paying attention to:
- The need to improve the Pitchup technical estate
- Paying off our technical debt
Our take
It can be difficult to find reliable and secure sites to browse and book campsites and holiday parks, with numerous sites offering incomplete information about the surrounding areas. Pitchup was founded to help users to find somewhere to stay, while at the same time get all the information they could want about local walking routes, pubs, nearby events and the like.
The platform offers over 5000 locations in over 60 countries and has witnessed tremendous growth since its launch in 2009; surpassing the milestone of 25 million nights booked and becoming Europe’s leading site for outdoor accommodation. The company is bootstrapped, but profitable since 2015 - testament to the popularity of the site.
Recently, more outdoor, local holidays, away from popular tourist resorts, have exploded in popularity. Pitchup has been able to take advantage of this, and is now leaning into helping people get away more sustainably, and supporting mental health by improving access to nature.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- A generous work-from-home office equipment allowance
- Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
- Pension matched to 4% via The People's Pension
- Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
- Company away days
- Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
- Vitality private healthcare
- Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Company HQ
Putney, London, UK
Leadership
Dan Yates
(Managing Director)Worked in Strategy and Business Development at lastminute.com Former Business Development Specialist for Ruda Holiday Park.
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