Product Engineer, Flash Pack
£75-90k
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Connects solo travellers at the same life-stage to enjoy adventures together
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Connects solo travellers at the same life-stage to enjoy adventures together
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-90k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Flash Pack's mission is to create 1 million friendships through the power of travel and technology. In a world that increasingly plays out behind screens, we facilitate authentic friendships between people at the same life-stage. We are solving a unique problem for a prominent niche with our global brand appeal.
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 in their 30s and 40s. The founders are a couple who started discussing the business idea behind Flash Pack during their first date. Both of them realized 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.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating effect on the tourism industry, which led to the cancellation of the programs organized by Flash Pack for 2020 and 2021. Since then the business has re-launched and is trending towards pre-pandemic levels.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2023
$6.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $6.2m
Company benefits
- Remote first and flexible first working culture with the opportunity to travel and work abroad
- 45 business days remote working from anywhere in the world
- Generous options grant with further options awarded at reviews depending on performance
- 5% matched employer pension contribution
- Generous maternity package, 16 weeks full pay
- Generous paternity package, 4 weeks paternity leave
- Unlimited mental health therapy & wellbeing support
Company values
- CUSTOMER, TEAM, SELF: You seek what is best for Flash Pack before yourself or your group. Service is the foundation on which this business is built and we believe a culture that fosters non-ego, servant leadership is a truly differentiated advantage that can only be built on trust
- GROWTH MINDSET: We compete in a hyper-competitive industry where benchmarking against competitors is the norm. We’re looking for people who want to set the benchmark rather than celebrate incremental improvements over the competition
- SIMPLIFY, FOCUS, EXECUTE: We value simplicity over complexity. We strive to ruthlessly prioritise. We say no to many things so we can focus on the things that are truly meaningful to us. Bias-to-action and avoid analysis-paralysis. Focus on great results rather than on process
- HUMILITY- No A’holes please, this includes staff and customers. We bring together exceptional individuals but we optimise for the best team outcome. There is no individual bigger than the team and we don’t tolerate egotistical or selfish behaviour. Be self-critical, welcome feedback, continuously experiment and seek perspectives and solutions from outside the company
- EMBRACE THE ADVENTURE: Yes we stole this from Airbnb! To us this means embracing challenges, use feedback and learn from failures and mistakes rather than dwell on them. Be a curious and a continuous learner, focus on bettering oneself and your team rather than protecting oneself
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Lee Thompson
(CMO)Previously Director at Lee Thompson Photography for 8 years.
Radha Vyas
(CEO)Studied European Politics and Spanish at The University of Hull. Previously Trustee at Childreach International for 2 years and Director of Fundraising at Vyas Fundraising for 7 years.
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