Senior Software Engineer – Frontend

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: 

• Drive development efforts for projects that impact the evolution of Priceline's business.

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

• Mentor and lead best practices in the development of user experiences.

• Showcase your fluency in Node.js which is at the forefront of what we use to build our customer-facing applications.

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

• Leverage relationships and influence Product and Design team members on a modern technology stack grounded in Node.js, React and GraphQL.

• Be a lead contributor to optimize our products for cross-device performance, including mobile, desktop, and tablets.

Who you are: 

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

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

• Fluency in one or more client side JavaScript frameworks or library (React, Angular, Vue).

• Proven expertise with Node.js and how it works and libraries like Express.js.

• Confident ability and experience to develop and consume GraphQL APIs.

• Experience writing robust unit tests using Jest and React Testing Library (Or similar frameworks/library)

• Experience using Tailwind CSS and working within a structured Design System to ensure UI consistency and development velocity

• Proficiency with functional programming.

• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and risks clearly to non-technical partners to avoid surprises and ensure alignment

• 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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