Mobile Product Engineer (React Native)

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. 

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink". 

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange. 

Job Description

As a Mobile Engineer, you'll work on our mobile applications, a specific project critical to our customers' needs. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new challenges across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Our products need to handle information at scale and extend beyond selling flights and hotels. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. 

We're a Product-oriented Mobile team with a growth mindset. We're curious problem solvers bold in our decisions. We like to collaborate, communicate, and share knowledge and technical ideas to grow together. We give you autonomy over the software you build and offer you the freedom to choose the right tool for the job. 

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire product lifecycle and strategy: this encompasses concept, design, testing, release, and support phases.
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineers: work in cross-functional teams to deliver the best customer experience.
• Develop mobile apps and mobile platform programs: write and maintain source code that meets the needs of our products and customers.
• Produce fully functional mobile applications: ensure code quality and functionality.
• Research and suggest new mobile products and applications: stay ahead of market trends and innovation.
• Understand our business and customer value: recognize how products impact our customers and drive business success.
• Leverage technology for business success: identify how technology can be a key enabler.
• Learn and share knowledge on new technologies and trends: apply new insights to current and future products.
• Collaborate across teams and departments: foster knowledge sharing and teamwork across the organization.

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

• Passion and enthusiasm: demonstrated love for your work with attention to detail.
• 2+ years of professional mobile app development: experience with publicly available apps.
• Proven Android or iOS development experience: hands-on expertise.
• Knowledge of React Native (Typescript): proficiency in this framework.
• Understanding of mobile UI/UX design guidelines: skills in custom views, interaction, animations.
• Experience with agile and pair programming methodologies: proven teamwork in agile environments.
• Collaborative feedback experience: ability to share and receive feedback constructively.
• Fluent in English: strong communication skills.

Your skills

• Passion for creating amazing mobile experiences: a drive to delight users.
• Business acumen: understand and align with business needs.
• Problem-solving mindset: view challenges as opportunities for simplification.
• Self-starter attitude: initiative-taking and innovative thinking.
• Humble and open-minded: willingness to learn and adapt.

Additional Information

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
• Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices