JavaScript Job: Frontend Engineer (Work from Home-Fully Remote)

Description

Ryanair Labs is the technology brand of Ryanair, a start-up inside a corporation and a state of-the-art digital & IT innovation hub creating Europe's Leading Travel Experience for customers.

In 2014 Ryanair decided to open the first state-of-the-art digital & IT innovation hub. More than 200 IT enthusiasts working on 30+ projects with a collaboration with Portugal, Dublin, Madrid and Wroclaw Labs are making your travel experience unique. As a result of our continued expansion, we want to hear from the best IT experts the European market has to offer to join our Labs.

Portugal is the latest location added to our digital portfolio, with a 100% work from home policy.

***CV's must be submitted in English***

The Team

Our Frontend development team is made up of almost 30 Software Engineer, working across 15 independent teams. These delivery focused project pods work on the Ryanair website, Ryanair Rooms website, and internal applications. Our continuous delivery approach means we follow the Agile Scrum methodology.

The Role

We are looking for talented front-end developers to join our digital development team. In this role you will work closely with our development and product team to develop, modify and support our website across all channels and our operational applications. We want someone who is motivated by emerging technologies and has a passion to drive digital transformation. A real desire to work in a collaborative and fast-paced retail environment is essential.

Based out of Lisbon/Porto, this position will be 100% working from home for any location in Portugal.

The Stack

• Our Tech Stack is based on the latest frontend technologies and frameworks.
• We are using the latest version of Angular and a microsites architecture.
• All our projects are hosted in the cloud (AWS) using a serverless infrastructure delivered with cloud native pipelines. We are using feature flags to rapidly deliver new functionalities to our users safely.

Your mission with us

• Delivering best-in-class user interfaces across the Ryanair.com platform or other operational apps
• Developing high quality, testable and performance software using agile practices
• Driving best technology and software development practices in the team with passion and enthusiasm
• Assisting analysts and business stakeholders in shaping, estimating and planning new requirements
• Participating in regular showcases of new work to the product owners and business stakeholders
• Striving for continuous improvement within the team

Requirements

Do you see yourself in the below?

• Proficient on modern frontend technology stack (HTML5, Typescript, CSS)
• Comfortable coding custom JavaScript solutions as well as utilising existing frameworks
• Expert knowledge of building high performing and available websites and how to apply page performance optimisation techniques
• Adept at building and maintaining cross browser/device compatible sites
• Exposure or appreciation of agile development practices
• Passionate about user experience
• Comfortable working and maintaining a CI/CD environment.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent understanding of the coding standards required for high volume websites from a security and performance perspective
• Experience of working with large e-commerce websites and their underlying databases.
• Bonus points AWS knowledge and proficiency
• IT Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience
• Working on projects that will be seen by the millions of customers across Europe!

Benefits

• Staff travel with flight tickets for yourself and family or friends.
• 100% Remote work from within Portugal.
• Tech Certifications sponsorship.
• AWS Trainings.
• AWS Enterprise support to all developers for dev questions.
• State of the art technologies and architectures.
• Possibility to meet your colleagues in other offices
• Relocation package.
• Annual events (i.e. St. Patrick’s Day)
• Regular social meetings