Senior Front end Developer

Senior front-end developer – Eurail.com – Utrecht – 32-40h

Are you an experienced Front-End Developer with a passion for awesome travel tools and engaging user-centric experiences?

We are looking for a creative senior developer to build cutting-edge travel products for our (potential) customers around the globe. If that’s not exciting enough, you will also be working with us to set up a dream in-house development team. Come help us revolutionise the digital travel experience!

 Organisation

We are an international e-commerce scale-up in the travel industry, founded in 2006 and leading in our market. We help travellers from all over the world to have an unforgettable experience in Europe by train.

As a scale-up, Eurail.com offers you the best of both worlds. We offer you the atmosphere and freedom of a start-up, combined with the professionality and resources of an established company.

We are a fully e-commerce company and have many IT systems including our CMS and Commerc platforms, as well as payment, fulfilment, and translation solutions. Our objective is to have a fully micro-service based infrastructure.

Job description and role

This is a hands-on role that will require both strategic thinking and execution, and will take our digital experiences to a new level of excellence.

You will ensure the readiness of development projects and initiatives while working with business owners and technology partners to implement business objectives and usability requirements.

Following interactive and visual designs, you and your new team will build, maintain and support our existing sites throughout the product lifecycle, including implementing functional enhancements and resolving issues.

Your playground will consist of an AWS environment (elastic compute cloud and lambda) with Adobe Experience Manager as the CMS and Commercetools as the e-commerce engine.

You will join forces with our IT team and will work closely in with suppliers, product owners, a QA team, IT ecommerce specialist, solution architect and back-end developers following an Agile/Scrum methodology. Next to that you will get the chance to work alongside other IT, Marketing and Ecommerce experts in cross-functional teams.

Boxes to tick

You are the Senior Front-End Developer we are looking for if you have the following characteristics:

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 4 years of experience building e-commerce tooling with demonstrated success
• Familiar with, or willing to learn how to use the Adobe platform
• Experienced planning, writing and testing code that brings to life the layouts and UX specifications of wireframes and Photoshop Designs delivered by our creative designers
• In-depth and hands-on experience creating unique and innovative web experiences using technologies such as XHTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript/JQuery, AJAX, XML, JSON, REST based APIs and other relevant technologies, as well as the proprietary Adobe toolset
• Extensive experience converting PSDs into standards-compliant front-end code
• Able to optimise front end code and functionality in order reach site speed KPIs
• Experience with Source Code Management Tools
• Experience performing QA and regression testing of web components including but not limited to browser compatibility
• Proven experience working Agile/Scrum
• Driven and focussed on achieving successful results you can be proud of

 Why work for Eurail.com?

• A positive environment with helpful colleagues.
• Maximum freedom in your work with a professional outlook.
• An attractive salary and benefits.
• An annual training budget of €5,000 to be used for your own personal and professional development.
• A healthy work/life balance, including flexible working.
• A young, growing and informal organisation.
• The opportunity to make a concrete and directly visible contribution to the development of a young company.
• An international working environment.
• A 32- to 40-hour work week.
• Enthusiastic, passionate about the product, the job, the company, train travel, internet.
• Helpful, towards customers, the Eurail Group, the railways, and each other.
• Knowledgeable, we strive to be experts about the train products and e-commerce.
• Dedicated, we work hard and are committed to represent the brands responsibly, in all levels of our organisation.
• Proactive, we are full of energy to act on the fast changes in the world surrounding us.

 Your development is important to us

Personal development is very important to us. For that reason, we invest in all our employees. With your very own education budget you can develop your personal and professional experience. You can follow a training course over a short or longer period, with a coach or through a peer support program.

We encourage you to think beyond your own position. As an employee of Eurail.com you will take part in cross functional team projects.

 Do you have more questions?

You can send questions about this vacancy to [email protected]. We will respond to you as soon as possible.