Front-End Engineer (Core Engagement) - Smoobu (m/f/d)

Smoobu (www.smoobu.com), a subsidiary of HomeToGo Group, is a fast-growing startup in the vacation rental industry. Smoobu’s all-in-one SaaS solution for private hosts currently manages over 70,000 properties across more than 120 countries. Smoobu’s priority is to help its hosts efficiently manage and grow their business.

Smoobu’s team is the secret to our success. We are an ambitious and international team that are motivated to exceed our customers’ expectations through expert advice and action. We are searching for new colleagues who are looking to take on the exciting challenge of transforming the vacation rental industry and taking it to the next level.

Your future contribution: 

We’re excited to welcome more talent to our Core Engagement team!

This team’s mission is to uphold one of our core promises to Hosts: providing the most intuitive and user-friendly Property Management System for small Hosts. This means creating and maintaining a seamless experience for them to:

• Connect their Vacation Rental properties to multiple OTA Channels.
• Monitor bookings and pricing
• Communicate effortlessly with guests.

Simply put, we aim to make their journey as smooth and straightforward as possible.

As a Front-End Engineer in this team, you will tackle challenges such as::

• Collaborating with Product, Design, and Host Relations teams to identify and address pain points in our application, devising practical solutions to improve the user experience.
• Developing new Host-to-Guest communication tools that enable Hosts to interact with their Guests in any language and on any device they prefer.
• Iterating and experimenting on the new user onboarding experience to ensure Hosts quickly fall in love with our platform.

How you’ll add value: 

• Collaborating closely with stakeholders to refine requirements, breaking work into clear milestones, identifying potential blockers
• Writing clean, high-quality, maintainable code
• Conducting code reviews and engaging in pair programming with fellow engineers to share knowledge and develop new skills 
• Implementing and improving our Testing Strategy through Unit, Integration, and Functional testing

You’ll be successful in this role if you: 

• Have 3+ years of professional experience in front-end development
• Possess excellent JavaScript knowledge with the ability to mentor junior engineers on standards, best practices, and patterns
• Bring enterprise-level experience with React (preferably) or TypeScript, Angular etc
• Are comfortable extending existing PHP User Interfaces
• Understand the modern API design patterns
• Aren’t afraid to ask questions and bring your own opinions which you’re comfortable sharing with other highly skilled engineers
• Are fluent in English

What Smoobu offers:

• Career growth opportunities and promotions, 360° feedback and open feedback culture, mentoring opportunities from an international team of passionate industry experts.
• Culture driven by our Leadership Principles: entrepreneurial, results-driven, encouraging ownership and enabling each other to succeed. Transparency about company goals, collaboration and support from an international team.
• Caring for the environment (proud to be a certified ClimatePartner and a part of the Leader for Climate Action community) as well as our employees c(work-life balance, weekly yoga classes, personal training discounts, mentoring program and psychological support).
• Attractive benefits package, including competitive compensation, visa sponsorship and relocation support. Additional benefits include language courses, full IT support and equipment, internal workshops and trainings, company and team events, modern and centrally-located office, additional holidays, Travel Industry Card.