Senior Software Engineer, Front End
Blueground, Italy
Job Description
At Blueground, our vision is to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live. For us, that means ensuring our guests have the peace of mind, flexibility amp; confidence they need to explore life’s latest adventure.
We’ve grown a lot since our founding in 2013, having raised more than $258m+ in funding, to date -- and that’s just the beginning. We’re now hosting guests in more than 8,000 homes in 20+ cities, with an aim to hit 50 cities by 2025.
Our vision comes to life through our ways of working. For our 800+ member team located across 15 countries, we’ve created a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, and opportunity.
We believe our people should have the power to choose their preferred way to work. Depending on the role’s requirements, team members can choose to work full time in one of our offices, work fully remote, or choose a hybrid model between the two.
We are driven by our core values. To our team, Time is our most important resource. Excellence isn’t simply a standard, but an exciting way to look at life. We Care deeply about our guests and colleagues. Our relationships are built around Transparency, which builds trust and improves communication.
We’re shaping the future of living, and we want you to be part of that journey.
We are looking for a talented SeniorFront End Engineer to join our Engineering team and our mission to offer a world class experience to our customers on the web, office based or remote.
We are a tech enabled company, currently making substantial investments in our technology platform, from our booking website and mobile app to our key business internal software, to enable our next stage of high growth.The person in this role will work on our web products with some of the latest tech goodies, solid engineering practices and demanding requirements on UX, analytics and performance.
Our Stack
- ES2015+
- Node.js | Express | Koa
- MongoDB | Postgres | Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Vue.js | Angular | Vanilla.js
- Jest | WebDriver.io | Cypress.io
- RESTful APIs | gRPC
- Serverless
- GraphQL on Prisma up next
Our code sits on Github, is integrated through Jenkins pipelines and runs on AWS EKS amp; Lambda. We do project management on JIRA, our prototypes and mockups on Figma and monitor our systems and performance on Datadog and New Relic.
What you'll focus on
- Architect, design and build product features on Blueground’s web products
- Deliver rich, responsive, mobile first experiences on the browser
- Participate in SCRUM ceremonies
- Code in Vue.js
- Write your unit tests
- Write your e2e tests
- Sometimes write your HTML amp; CSS
- Automate stuff
- Depend on a CI pipeline
- Experiment and create rapid prototypes
What to expect
- Your opinion to matter
- To work in an agile, cross functional, devops enabled team
- To work with a product designer, a product manager and an engineer in test
- To work on functional and non functional testing
- To build lots of stuff from scratch and rewrite quite as many
- To work on performance and SEO
- To move beyond frameworks and take advantage of modern browser tech
- To enjoy some quality engineering
- To get your hands on latest goodies - we’re open-minded geeks
- A rapidly growing company
- Cool colleagues :)
Interview process
- Video call dialogue with People Team
- Live coding review, 2+ hours long
- Technical Interview, 1+ hours long and interview with Head of engineering
What to expect at the technical interview?
You will be called to have a long discussion with your future team members. This discussion will cover many things from CS fundamentals to latest web and Javascript tech. So we encourage you to do a quick refresh on topics like data structures, algos and runtime complexity as well as core Javascript and web fundamentals. We will also try to tackle some real-world software design problems together as we do every other day. It may sound scary but it's really not. We want you to succeed.Interview process
- Video call dialogue with People Team
- Live coding review, 2+ hours long
- Technical Interview, 1+ hours long and interview with Head of engineering
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time industry experience working with web technologies
- Strong web fundamentals and solid understanding of the 2020's web ecosystem
- Strong Javascript skills (ES2015+)
- Strong HTML amp; CSS skills
- An eye for good UX
- Core Web APIs like DOM, Storage,