ABOUT US 🚀
Hostelworld Group, the global hostel-focussed online booking platform, inspires adventurous minds to meet the world and come back with life-changing stories to tell. Our customers are not your average tourists, they crave cultural connection and unique experiences that we make possible by providing an unbeatable selection of hostels in unmissable locations – all in the palm of their hand.
It is the social nature and community feel of hostels and their environment, that enable travellers to embrace journeys of discovery, adventure and meaning. We have more than 13 million reviews across 17,800 hostels in more than 179 countries, making the brand the leading online hub for social travel. The website operates in 19 different languages and our mobile app in 13 languages.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dublin, Hostelworld has a growing, high-calibre team of 230 people within Technology, Product, Global Markets, HR, Finance & Legal and Marketing Teams across our Dublin, London, Porto, Shanghai and Sydney offices. Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Dublin Euronext. You can read more about our story here.
LOCATION🌍
This role is based in Portugal. We have an office hub in Porto available for those who prefer a hybrid model where you can spend time with colleagues in-person. You will need to be able to commute to our office hub as required from time to time.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH 👨🏽🤝👨🏼
Reporting to our back-office systems Team Lead, the full-stack Developer will help the CRM team update their communications and enhance or extend existing systems. This squad’s mission is to build products that enable Hostelworld’s internal departments to better support Hostels in managing their inventory and experiences.
WHAT YOU'LL DO 👩💻
As a Full-stack Developer on our Agile team, you will develop and maintain our multiple systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy scalable and robust services. Your knowledge of web development will be pivotal in supporting requests to update our CRM communications and delivering high-quality software that meets our business needs.
Technical Responsibilities:
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Collaboration with the CRM team: You will work closely with this team to collect their communications, enhance requirements, and develop the necessary CRM content update.
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Collaboration with Product and UX Teams: You work closely with these teams to create deliverable requirements that meet expected results.
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Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Your team is responsible for the entire SDLC using different languages and frameworks, from Pull Requests to container deployment on GCP, ensuring high reliability and observability.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 👀
Experience & Qualifications:
- Degree in computer science or a related field.
- Experienced web developer
- Experienced at debugging issues with JavaScript frontend frameworks (Vue is preferable)
- Passion for software development and staying up to date on the latest trends within the frontend JavaScript community.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Proficient in both spoken and written English
- Experience working with remote teams
- Must have a good understanding of web development
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- REST APIs
- Experience or knowledge of PHP
- Experience and proficiency with at least one modern frontend framework is expected (React.JS, Vue.JS, Angular)
- Ability to learn, understand, test, and debug existing codebases
- Ability to showcase resilience in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment
- Experience or knowledge of GCP (Google Cloud Platform) is a bonus
- Experience working with Iterable (or similar) is a bonus.
WHAT WE OFFER 💯
- Competitive salary & benefits
- Enhanced annual leave plus 3 Wellbeing Days per year
- Paid family leave (maternity, paternity, surrogacy & adoption)
- Agile working (plus a Working from Abroad Policy!)
- Support for your ongoing growth & development
- Inclusive people policies (sickness, menopause, compassionate and fertility leave)
- A chance to give back to your local community with 5 paid volunteering days
OUR BEHAVIOURS 🏆
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Grow others - We fundamentally believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone, whether it's helping them develop hard or soft skills. We want learning and growing to be part of our DNA to help makes us a better team, together.
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Master it - We are obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills. We rarely take things at face value; we investigate, interrogate, and always look for ‘the why,’ and wherever possible, we use data to find the best solution.
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Collaborate - We are in it together, for the tough stuff and the celebrations too. To achieve the best results, we need expertise from all areas of the organisation, and we wholeheartedly welcome diverse thinking.
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Adapt - We work fluidly, adapting to new information and the evolving environment while staying committed to our goals. Innovation and experimentation fuel our projects and we’re never afraid to pivot.
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Deliver - Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity. We collaborate to deliver work at speed without dropping any of our other behaviours.
We believe in talented and diverse teams that reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences. We lay out the above requirements to guide applicants to the experiences that we believe will allow you to be successful in the role. If you don’t meet them all, please consider applying if you think you can still perform the role as described.
