Full Stack Senior Developer / Development Manager for Travel Brand (Javascript / Angular / React / Node / Mongo) - remote

We are looking for a Development Manager to lead and develop the technical function of Jack's Flight Club. We need a commercially experienced senior engineer who can build both an effective team and a modern, robust technology platform. You’ll be delivering digital services and mobile applications for over 1,000,000+ members and internal users.

You’ll be expected to provide leadership, management, coaching and technical expertise for a small team of developers. We’ll look to you to develop the technical vision, standards and working practices for the team as well as working on technical architecture, design and estimation sessions, brainstorming solutions and approaches to business problems.

Our in-house technology stack is almost all javascript based so you must have mastered Javascript on both backend and frontend. All cloud based and served from AWS, our platform architecture and services are distributed across:

We also work with a range of third party service providers to provide tools and services via APIs and automations.

You’ll be part of the senior team so expected to work closely with other teams and contribute to our overall commercial strategy.

You must have at least 4 years of commercial experience as a software developer, at least 2 of which with line management experience of developers. You should be able to demonstrate professional competence with:

Although we have team members all over the world, English is the company’s first language, so you must have fluent conversational and technical spoken and written English language skills.

We’d like it if you also have some of the following:

We're looking for someone able to work UK/Western Europe business hours with at least 6 hours overlap.

In later stages, the recruitment process will include a skills assessment and coding tasks.

You’ll be joining a small software engineering team working fully remotely so you’ll need to be comfortable working independently, able to self-organise and be disciplined in your working practices.

It can be hard to work remotely, so you’ll need to be committed to great communication, willing to suggest and make changes and improvements that make you and the team better every day.

✈️ Paid time off - Want to reconnect with why you love travel deals or just time to veg out? You’ll get 20+ days of paid leave (plus paid public holidays) to rest and recharge

✈️ Professional development - We work with you to grow your skills and will foot the bill on reading material to help you get there

✈️ Tech Bonus - Spruce up your home office with a new desk, fancy external hard drive, or getting that exotic house plant you’ve been eyeing is now possible, on us

✈️ Drama-free workplace - Open communication at all levels and no office politics, so you only have to focus on doing what needs doing :)

✈️ Prioritize work/life balance - We know that sometimes life takes place in the 9-5, so we don't mind if you take breaks to run to the bank or adjust your schedule around a softball game

✈️ Help shape our team for the better - You have a chance to contribute in a big way, to an established profitable scale up business and build a better company with us

✈️ Multicultural workplace - Work with people all over the world, so you'll never know where your teammate will be logging in from next!

✈️ Family Leave - Time to adjust to new additions (and learn a new normal) is important, which is why we offer both parents paid time off

The salary and benefits we can offer may vary depending on your experience and tax residency.