Job description

Joining our team as a front-end engineer, you will be working across a mix of our products and technologies. From our web based personalisation and tracking script (React), to working on our table reservation, online ordering, and gift card landing pages (React), our product portal (Laravel, Vue) and our tablet app for iOS (React Native). We expect the role to be 90% web and 10% mobile – but that could change depending on product growth and feedback.

You’ll work across the full development lifecycle, building scalable, reusable components and front end libraries, ensuring code is well tested and highly performant. Collaborating with our cross-functional team to translate requirements into high quality code and product features and capabilities that can be taken to any other hospitality customer globally.

You’ll help define our front-end tech stack and tooling, being an advocate of engineering best practice and drive innovation to ensure best of breed software. You have a reasonable eye for design, UX and UI, so can ship features and functionality that not just behaves as expected but can provide delightful front-end experiences.

We are a team that values output and contribution. Every person is expected to be a leader in their own area and to challenge and strive for success. High output, fast feedback is the way we measure success. We enjoy working together and love the challenge of building new products that will gain traction and scale. We want to hire the best people, people who are fun to work with and who bring value to every discussion and outcome.

We will only interview candidates who live within a 3 hour flight of the UK. Despite being remote, we love getting together, and know that for team cohesion time zones are important

Must Have

• 3+ years of professional experience working with front-end frameworks such as React or Vue
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience writing well-tested code at various layers of the testing pyramid.
• Ability to work well with product managers, project managers, and operations colleagues to build products that suit various stakeholder needs
• Ability to take charge of your work, work autonomously and at times with some ambiguity.
• A desire to ship work fast and often, highly productive and able to build a first version on which to then iterate.
• A willingness to ask and listen to feedback.

Things that would help in your application

• Experience working with Typescript, SASS and React Native beneficial but not required.
• Experience working in a start-up, in cross-functional teams or in early product lifecycles
• The skills to do product discovery and talk to customers directly to bring back requirements and features.

Benefits

💰£60,000 – £80,000 annual salary

🙏 A 5% company pension contribution via our pension provider Aviva. We also offer employees the option of joining our salary sacrifice pension scheme (with Guestwise’s NIC savings reinvested into your pension pot)

🌎 Remote and flexible working – candidates must be within 2 hours of GMT (with face-to-face at least once per quarter, but also as and when required by customers)

🏝 33 days annual leave – which includes 21 days annual leave, 8 public holidays (5 of which can be taken on whatever day you want), 3 days of Christmas shut down, and your Birthday off

➕ An extra day of annual leave for each year’s service up to a maximum of 5 extra days

🚼 Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave – after completion of 1 years service

💚 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing support for your health and wellbeing

💡 Coaching – unlimited personalised coaching sessions for everyone based on the things that are most important to you

🧠 Learning budget for courses and conferences based around your unique learning journey

🙌 Quarterly company get together for planning and socialising

💻 MacBook and anything else we agree you need to do your job effectively

📈 Equity based on role and how early you joined the company

This is a fantastic chance to join a dynamic and growing company where great ideas thrive, diversity and inclusion are valued, and employees are empowered to achieve their highest potential, driving Guestwise’s growth and success.

We’re an employer that believes in equal opportunities. Rest assured, all applicants will be considered for employment without any bias towards race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

So, if you’re interested in joining our team, go ahead and apply today!