Software Developer (Front End)

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office.

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal: 

As a Software Engineer/Developer, you will collaborate with a small, tight knit team of cutting edge, coding thought leaders who set the strategy for our customer interface in an engaging and ethical way. You will also be working closely with the product and design teams of Priceline. Self-starters are encouraged to explore, fail fast, and build new things, and will be given opportunities to be developed and grow within the company. 

In this role you will get to: 

• Contribute to projects with direct impact on the evolution of Priceline's business.

• Be part of a cross-functional team that experiments, iterates and delivers on product objectives.

• Showcase your expertise in building an engaging user experience.

• Design and develop systems supporting our Hotel, Airline, Rental Car and Vacation Package businesses, that serve hundreds of millions of searches a day.

• Build relationships and interact with Product and Design team members on a modern technology stack grounded in Node.js, with Javascript frameworks and patterns like Redux.

• Optimize our sites for cross-device performance, including mobile, desktop, and tablets.

• Collaborate with other engineers on the team to develop and maintain resilient and scalable messaging systems

• Develop email templates using React frameworks with a focus on dynamic content and personalization

Who you are: 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 3+  years of JavaScript along with experience working on consumer facing projects.

• 1+ year of experience working with messaging systems such as Iterable, SendGrid, or Twilio for email automation and dispatch

• Proficient in React and email template development for consistent, responsive designs across various email clients

• Expertise in one or more modern client side JavaScript framework or library (React, Angular, Ember).

• Experienced building applications with  Node.js, has an understanding about how Node works and applying common libraries like Express.

• Ability to develop and consume GraphQL APIs.

• Comfort and experience with functional programming.

• Ability to author semantic and accessible markup and style.

• Experience with Styled Components or similar CSS in Javascript framework is a plus.

• Familiarity with Kafka is preferred

• Established software development best practices, including writing unit tests and collaborating over programming in peer code review.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential. 

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