Senior Frontend Engineer

LOS ANGELES, CA · ENGINEERING · FULL-TIME

NexTravel empowers businesses to have true ownership over the employee’s end-to-end booking experience. By providing simple and transparent solutions for our clients to set travel policies, track spend, and build in-depth reports, our clients can enjoy business travel without the complexities, hidden costs, and time-consuming manual requirements

NexTravel is dedicated to providing easy and flexible solutions so our clients can travel smarter.

As the Senior Frontend Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in developing complex, responsive web apps to build the next generation user interface for our travel platform. You will provide architecture guidelines, select tools, and set internal standards for creating web apps. You will take the lead in solving challenging user experience problems and have an important voice in the product & software design process. 

Responsibilities

• Lead the front-end architecture by establishing best practices and standards

• Collaborate with the Product Manager and the Designer on the defining product requirements

• Estimate the level of effort of backlog items

• Conduct code reviews and mentor team members on front-end development best practices

• Implement and maintain complex, responsive, multilingual user interfaces for customer-facing features and internal users

You should apply if:

• You have a deep expertise building complex web applications

• You have used React.js, Vue, or similar framework to design and implement a large web application

• You have a very high software artisanship standards, taking great pleasure in writing quality, highly maintainable code

• You value beautiful, pixel-perfect user interfaces, smooth interactions, and self-explanatory workflows

• You never stop learning, perfecting your hard and soft skills

• You follow technology trends and the latest innovations, and you are able to judge the maturity and practical applications for the tools catching your attention

• You base your decision on evidence, data, and customer satisfaction

• You enjoy working with multidisciplinary teams, supporting your colleagues, respecting everyone’s opinion, and collaboratively finding the shortest path to achieve the common goal

• You believe in Agile Principles, turning them into day-to-day practices

• You are interested in sharing your knowledge and mentoring less experienced engineers to help them grow

• You are a self-driven, goal-oriented person driving your own projects to completion, able to identify and follow priorities, reach out for help, and delegate when needed

Bonus points

• BA/BS in Computer Science, or equivalent

• Experience working in the travel industry

Technologies we use

• JavaScript / TypeScript / HTML / CSS

• React / Redux / React Native

• Spring Boot / Kotlin

• AWS / EC2 / S3 / RDS / Aurora / Redis / Docker