Frontend Engineer

exceptional user experiences for our website. As a front-end engineer, you will work

closely with our design and product teams to translate designs and specifications into

high-quality, responsive user interfaces.

You will use your expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to implement and maintain clean, efficient, and scalable code. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with backend engineers to integrate front-end components with server-side functionality and contribute to the development of our technology stack. If you are passionate about creating beautiful, intuitive, and performant user interfaces, we would love to hear from you.

What does our Tech Team look like?

Technology is central to everything that we do at Alternative Airlines!

Our in-house tech team is always pushing the limits. We rapidly design, develop and test new products to improve both the flight search and booking experience and streamline our internal processes. Our tech team are backend and frontend engineers,

digital experience and product specialists.

Our tech team enjoys the following:

• Flexible working - Choose where you work - fully remote or our Gatwick office.
• Fast-paced culture - We deploy daily and spend less time in meetings
• In-house tech team - no agencies. Your work has a direct impact on a growing the business
• Work-life balance - Things outside of work matter
• Grow your skills - work on code that will teach you new skills and help you develop
• Challenging problems - Endless number of interesting and complex projects to solve.
• We work with latest frameworks and tools such as React, NextJs and Vercel, which means you’ll be able to write clean and modern code while staying up-to date with modern web technologies.
• You will be a part of our team, and your input and knowledge is valued.

A typical day for Frontend Engineers

Our frontend engineers work across the Alternative Airlines website frontend. Our team work on implementing new features into the flight booking process, creating customer facing landing pages to promote new products and augment and enhance existing functionality. Working closely with UX/UI and design colleagues in our tech team, there are lots of opportunities for collaborative testing.

You will work in a cross functional team, having ownership and responsibility for the frontend of the Alternative Airlines’ site. The role will have real responsibility and decision-making authority to control and develop the platform of Alternativeairlines.com. You will have a hand’s on approach with a keen eye for bringing designs to life with great interfaces whilst maintaining the structural integrity and standard of the front-end codebase.

Through effective design and implementation, the successful candidate will create excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.

who relishes the chance to tackle complex coding challenges and craft elegant

solutions?

Do you want to work on exciting projects that will make a real difference to people’s

lives? Do want to join a business that is agile, ambitious and supports and encourages, * 7+ years front-end web development experience

• A passion for working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a keen eye for detail
• Experience with NextJs and React
• Experience building mobile friendly and responsive designs.
• Understanding and experience of version control including Git
• Self-starter attitude, taking ownership and driving forward projects to completion

Benefits & Perks:

• Flexible Working - we allow our people to choose where they work best
• Social events throughout the year
• Plenty of holiday - 23 days plus bank holidays
• Flight credits of up to £1,000 per year based on length of service
• 2 extra wellness holidays per year focused on employee wellness
• Enjoy a 2-week paid sabbatical for every 5 years of service

Why work with us?

Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore, we have created a culture where we put our people first:

• We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
• A focus on personal progression and development
• Opportunity to join an innovative and talented team
• Influence the next stage of growth of a fast-growing company, * Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Alternative Airlines is officially certified as a Great Place to Work 2024-25.

This certification was independently awarded by Great Place to Work ® after they

conducted an employee survey that showed:

• 97% of employees agree that Alternative Airlines is a great place to work
• 97% of employees agree that they’ve treated as a full member regardless of their position
• 100% of employees agree that they’re made to feel welcome when joining