Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories – from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, “whatever makes them pink”.
lastminute.com is part of lm group, a publicly traded multinational Group among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to providing our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel-related products and services.
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.
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* Please note that this is also a full remote working position
Do you want to create an impact on a product used by millions of users across multiple devices daily?
We have a daily challenge to reach more than 60 million unique users (in 17 languages and 40 countries) who want to book and personalise their next travel experience. We’re looking for software engineers passionate about challenges, such as creating a modern, scalable and resistant platform.
As a Mobile Engineer, you’ll work on our next-generation 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
- Take part in the entire product lifecycle and strategy (concept, design, test, release and support)
- Collaborate with product managers and other engineers in cross-functional teams to create the best experience for our customers within our next-generation mobile applications
- Create, maintain and implement the source code to develop mobile apps and mobile platform programs that meet the needs of our products and customers
- Produce fully functional mobile applications by writing clean code
- Research and suggest new mobile products and applications
- Understand how our business works and how products add value to our customers
- Understand how technology impacts our business and could be an enabler for our success
- Learn and share experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products
- Collaborate and share knowledge with others across the group
