Join Europe's #1 Online Hotel Reservations Company! Booking.com, a leading online hotel reservation service, is part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN). Our website attracts an average of 30 million unique visitors each month. Booking.com works with more than 86,000 affiliated hotels in 81 countries around the world. Our services are available in 36 languages. We currently have 28 offices worldwide with more than 1,400 employees.
Booking.com is looking for the world's best Front End Developers all around the globe! Join us at our beautiful headquarters in Amsterdam and work on planet Earth's #1 accommodation website with some of our industry's smartest people! You'll be given the freedom to make meaningful and measurable improvements impacting millions of users.
About the Front End team
Our guiding principle is that by helping our users we help our business. As a developer in our Front End team you will be building the user interfaces of the Booking.com website. You'll be a key part of the idea generation process, working in a small startup-like team which takes full ownership of their part of our platform. You'll work side by side with designers, back end developers, product owners, copywriters and user researchers to conceive, analyze, hand code & test your ideas.
Key responsibilities
- Translate requirements and mockups into fully functioning features using JavaScript and HTML/CSS
- Continuously look for ways to improve Booking.com and implement A/B tests
- Take ownership of sections of Booking.com's desktop, tablet and mobile web sites
About you
You're excited about the endless potential of the web, and being able to build things that millions of people can use every day. You're passionate about your craft, have an excellent eye for detail and an absolute commitment to making sure features are well implemented and bug free. Your core responsibility will be in combining your knowledge and expertise with the goals of our business to deliver a world-class user experience to our diverse, loyal user-base. You'll be comfortable taking a data-led approach to development, since we make all our decisions based on experiments and testing. You will be a passionate advocate for the user and excited about working in an agile, collaborative environment.
Required Skills & Experience
- Expert understanding of core front-end web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
- Experience developing with JavaScript/HTML/CSS
- Experience with JavaScript libraries such as JQuery
- Experience with templating languages
- Ability to write high-performance, reusable code
- Experience troubleshooting cross-browser compatibility issues
- Experience in a commercial environment; pragmatic, down to earth approach
- Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc
- Empathy for the end user
- Knowledge of version control systems
- Comfortable working on a command line
- 3+ years of experience building websites and applications
- Ability to speak English fluently
We offer:
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Global relocation package, full support for you and your family
- 26 days paid vacation plus an average of 9 public holidays extra
- Discount on hotel bookings
- Opportunities to attend conferences, internal and external trainings, workshops, etc.
- Vibrant company culture, including our annual Christmas all-hands conference and year-end party!