Junior Web Engineer

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

In this role as the Junior Web Engineer, you will...🚄

• Deliver well-scoped web development tasks and tickets, using the tools, patterns and guidance provided by your team to create reliable, customer-focused features.

• Write solid, testable code in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and React, with support from more experienced engineers where needed.

• Contribute to a high-quality codebase by following team standards, writing appropriate unit tests, and making small improvements as you work.

• Build your understanding of our web technologies, including TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, AWS, and GitHub Actions, through hands-on delivery and learning from your team.

• Support the full development lifecycle by contributing to code changes, testing, deployment and monitoring, with guidance from senior engineers.

• Help us learn what works best for customers by contributing to experiments, A/B tests and small product improvements.

• Read and update documentation as you work, helping to keep information clear and useful for the wider team.

• Take an active part in team ceremonies, retros and discussions by sharing ideas, listening to feedback and asking for help early when something is unclear.

We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍

• Some hands-on experience building web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS, with a willingness to keep developing your skills in modern web development.

• Working knowledge of React & Typescript

• .An understanding of good engineering practices, including writing clean, testable code and using tests to support quality.

• A customer-focused mindset and an interest in understanding how software changes can improve the experience for people using our products.

• A collaborative approach, with confidence communicating clearly, listening to feedback and contributing to team conversations.

• A proactive learning mindset, including the ability to seek support when needed and follow through on smaller pieces of work.

• An interest in Agile ways of working and an understanding of why teams break work down, ship regularly and learn from outcomes.

• Helpful if you have exposure to technologies such as Node, GraphQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform or GitHub Actions, though we do not expect you to have worked with all of them before.

Our Tech Stack 🔑

All our Web teams work with a variety of technologies and patterns. You do not need experience with every tool, but you’ll have the opportunity to learn and build confidence across:

• JavaScript, CSS and HTML

• React and TypeScript

• Node and GraphQL

• AWS Cloud

• Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!