Product Engineer, Flash Pack
£75-90k
More information about location
Social adventures for like-minded solo travellers
Open for applications
Social adventures for like-minded solo travellers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£75-90k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create one million meaningful friendships across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Proven delivery of web products using React, TypeScript and modern front-end tooling, with clean, maintainable code
- Skilled at designing and extending systems, including building and maintaining APIs, working with databases (SQL or similar), and contributing to infrastructure when needed
- Data-driven decision-making - you frame problems with metrics, spot insights quickly and optimise for business impact
- Clear, collaborative communication that builds trust with engineers, designers, and stakeholders alike
- Driven by a growth mindset, you actively seek feedback and learning opportunities to level up your craft, and leverage new AI tools to improve your productivity and maximise your impact
- Hands-on experience in lean and autonomous teams, comfortable with ambiguity, minimal process, and rapid iteration. You favour pragmatic solutions over theoretical perfection
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Engineer to join our team reporting to the Head of Engineering
- You will develop product initiatives end-to-end, collaborate with Product and Design to shape hypotheses, build and ship full-stack features in React and TypeScript, and dig into analytics to understand how our users engage
- In this role, you’ll work on a wide range of features, spanning every part of our platform
- You will craft intuitive user journeys, develop internal tools that speed up operations, and streamline workflows for both travellers and our operations teams
- Your work will directly impact product quality and customer satisfaction - from refining website flows and optimising back-office processes to designing features that deliver value to our community
- If you measure success by customer impact rather than lines of code, you enjoy experimenting through A/B tests to validate ideas, and you get a kick out of watching users interact with something you shipped then this could be the role for you
- You can expect autonomy, a culture of connection and continuous learning
- Building features in a full-stack fashion using React and TypeScript
- Driving feature development by leading technical exploration, defining and scoping work collaboratively, and keeping everyone aligned
- Maintaining and refactoring different services, keeping the codebase clean for the next engineer
- Leveraging customer interviews and data insights, and collaborating with Product & Design to craft meaningful features that address users’ challenges
- Supporting product decisions through iterative development and lightweight experimentation, including A/B testing when useful
- Instrumenting analytics and event tracking so we can continually learn about our customers and improve their experience
Application process
- Our interviews take place on Google Meet and usually consist of the following stages:
- An interview with the hiring manager to hear more about your background and experience and to give you a deep dive into the role (60 mins)
- A technical interview with our engineers to see how you’d solve a problem (60 mins)
- A culture and ways of working interview with our Head of Product to see if your ways of working are a match with ours (30 - 45 mins)
- Meet with one of our founders for any final questions you or we have (30 - 45 mins)
- Some roles may have extra stages, but we will let you know as soon as possible in the process if this is the case
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Flash Pack is a travel firm whose mission is to build new friendships through group travel for solo travellers. The founders are a couple who started discussing the business idea behind Flash Pack during their first date. Both of them realised that there was a gap in the market for a travel company that catered to people such as themselves.
Their target market is professionals with a growth mindset. Their trips are carefully designed to offer immersive and authentic experiences, distinguishing Flash Pack in a tourism market that is crowded with bland trips.
While the company took a hit during the pandemic, hitting pause on its adventures like many others - but it didn't stay down for long. Since relaunching, the company has seen even more success, with triple-digit year-on-year growth and a shelf full of awards to show for it. And with the solo travel market heating up fast, Flash Pack looks perfectly positioned to ride the next big wave.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2023
$6.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $6.2m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Lee Thompson
(Co-Founder & CMO)Previously a Director at Lee Thompson Photography for 8 years.
Radha Vyas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied European Politics and Spanish at The University of Hull. Previously a Trustee at Childreach International for 2 years and a Director of Fundraising at Vyas Fundraising for 7 years.
Oliver Lee
(CFO)Oliver initially joined Flash Pack in 2019 as a Finance Manager, quickly becoming the Head of Finance and then the CFO in 2021. Prior to Flash Pack, they were a Manager of Transaction Services at Evelyn Partners, and a Senior Associate at Nexia International and SingerLewak.
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