Front End Developer
Booking.com is the world’s leading accommodation website. We serve millions of customers all over the world from our headquarters in the center of Amsterdam where we’re looking for User Experience experts to join our front-end team of designers, developers & researchers.
We make our design decisions based on experiments and testing. We receive thousands of visits to our website on a daily basis; therefore we know instantly which experiments work and which don’t.
As an HTML/CSS/Javascript Front-End Developer, you will be implementing the user interfaces of the Booking.com website. You will work with colleagues in the design and development teams to implement website features which our users interact with directly. The successful candidate will be passionate about coding and have an excellent eye for detail and an absolute commitment to making sure features are well implemented and bug free.
Key responsibilities
- Translating requirements and mockups into fully functioning features using HTML/CSS and JavaScript
- Day to day maintenance of the Booking.com websites and optimizing code for the best user experience
- Working together with colleagues of Design, IT and Marketing to improve usability and implement a/b tests
Skills & Experience
- Expert in HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Comfortable working on a command line
- Knowledge of version control systems
- Excellent communicator with a pragmatic able to understand requirements
- Working knowledge of W3C standards for web development
- Able to work well independently and within a team
- Front-end coding in a commercial environment
- Solid experience with Javascript
- Experience with templating systems
- Experience with validating and testing
- Experience with graphical software (e.g. Photoshop)
- Dealing with browser compatibility and implementing workarounds
Interested?
We offer a competitive salary plus bonuses, with opportunities for career progression within our fast growing company. This position is open to worldwide candidates and in the case of relocation we will assist you with a relocation package insuring a smooth transition to working and living in the Netherlands, where you’ll be joining a team of people from all over the world who now call Amsterdam home.
The perfect candidate has a passion their craft... and a portfolio to back it up. Send us a link or upload your work and tell us all about it. Please submit your CV, portfolio and Motivation Letter in English via our website www.booking.com/jobs or click here.
IMPORTANT!! All candidates must send a portfolio with personal design contributions or work samples, otherwise the application cannot be taken into consideration.
