Skyscanner's engineering team writes about its mobile cross-platform libraries, travel search and hiring, plus some travel-related posts.
HN commenters mostly mention Skyscanner as a flight search site that works well in Europe, and the engineering jobs it posts in hiring threads.
Skyscanner | full-time senior and lead hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia, Shenzhen | ONSITE, VISA https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. We have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company. We'll soon be a top-100 website in the world by traffic.
Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: engineering managers, backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science & machine learning, full stack (modern frontend + api skills), designers, product, iOS & Android. Languages we like and have great tooling for: Java, Python, JavaScript & NodeJS.
We have a number of offices in Europe, and are focusing on Scotland, London and Barcelona in particular.
We want to hire great people to solve large-scale challenges and build industry-leading new products. In short, if you've got good software industry and tech company experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.
I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. We have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.
Please ping me an email at matteo.ruina@skyscanner.net if you want me to refer you, and/or have questions. Please specify which job are you applying to and which office would you like to work from.
Permanent & onsite roles…
Skyscanner | full-time senior and lead hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia, Shenzhen | ONSITE, VISA https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. We have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company. We'll soon be a top-100 website in the world by traffic.
Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science & machine learning, full stack (modern frontend + api skills), designers, product, iOS & Android. Languages we like and have great tooling for: Java, Python, JavaScript & NodeJS.
We have a number of offices in Europe, and are focusing on Scotland, London and Barcelona in particular.
We want to hire great people to solve large-scale challenges and build industry-leading new products. In short, if you've got good software industry and tech company experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.
I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. We have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.
Please ping me an email at jakub.kadlubiec@skyscanner.net if you want me to refer you, and/or have questions. Please specify which job are you applying to and which office would you like to work from.
Permanent & onsite roles only. Relocation…
Skyscanner | full-time, onsite - hiring across levels | London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Barcelona, Budapest, Sofia, Singapore, Shenzhen | ONSITE, VISA https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
We're one of the largest travel search products in the world. We have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company. We'll soon be a top-100 website in the world by traffic.
Hiring across levels in lots of disciplines: engineering managers, backend with microservices & distributed systems (back-end), data science/data engineering, full-stack (modern front-end + API skills), designers, product, iOS & Android. Languages we like and have great tooling for: Java, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS.
We have several offices in Europe and are focusing on London in particular right now.
We want to hire great people to solve large-scale challenges and build industry-leading new products. In short, if you've got good software industry and tech company experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.
I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. We have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.
Please ping me an email at raunaq.vohra@skyscanner.net if you want me to refer you, and/or have questions. Please specify which job you are applying to, ideally supplying me with a link from the careers page. Please also specify the…
Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently acquired by CTrip, China's biggest travel services provider, we have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company.
Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack (modern frontend + api skills - particularly Node or Python), designers, product, iOS & Android. We're growing in all of our European offices; London and Barcelona in particular.
We want to hire people looking for large-scale challenges and building new products. In short, if you've got good industry experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.
Our current focuses are around high-frequency travellers, data-driven personalization and recommendation, as well as developer enablement and tooling. What should the future look like -- how do we best use our data, our scale and new technologies to our advantage as we grow? Come help us find out.
Please ping me an email at alex.treppass@skyscanner.net for a referral. Happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can. CV in pdf or word doc format would be ideal.
On a personal note, I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability…
That wouldn't really surprise me. Off the top of my head things I've experienced in the past week or two and remembered:
- Four involving a Vim upgrade being pushed by one tool and blocked by another; a broken shortcut causing gVim to load with an error message and no working menus - not fixed by uninstall/reinstall; unable to delete one of the Vim DLLs; Windows Explorer window lockup after right click (possibly it had the DLL loaded for Vim context menu icon?).
- FireFox regularly stops loading pages until I visit Help -> About FireFox and see that it's silently done an upgrade and is waiting to restart.
- Cloud service with SSO login working for months, stopped working with mysterious 'error processing your credentials' type message.
- and it has a broken 'send password reset email' feature, no email gets to me.
- checking for blocked emails in SaaS email filter, when I put my email in the 'Recipient' box of the search, Edge browser autofill puts my email address in the 'Sender' search field as well, incorrectly / uselessly.
- Edge browser autofill dropdowns routinely cover SaaS product's HTML/JS dropdown menus.
- New SaaS product which has a username/password login instead of SSO, but login goes to a prompt with only 'use SSO' (which we don't) or 'forgot my password' (after logging in successfully). Clicking 'use SSO' gets past that screen, I think it's internal between-different sub-sites SSO abstraction leaking to the customer.
- SaaS product offers 2-factor…
SKYSCANNER http://www.skyscanner.net/ Full Stack Engineers and Senior Full Stack Engineers - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Barcelona, Sofia, Budapest – ONSITE
Complex Problems Live in Travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUkYP5Pfefg
Skyscanner is the world’s travel search engine with ambitions to be everybody's personal travel assistant. As a full stack engineer, we want to employ your problem solving capabilities. Solving complex scalability challenges, proposing new design and systems solutions and all the while, instigating and promoting best engineering practices. To be really useful to us, you should have across the board experience – a bit of database, a bit of back end as well as some UX familiarity into the bargain – after all, if you don’t know what can go wrong, you won’t know how to fix it. We’re looking for exceptional engineers who can make difficult decisions and take ownership of a problem from end to end.
If you hate doing what you’ve always done but love finding new and better solutions, make our problems your problem. Apply today.
You can offer us:
A hunger to learn, a desire to meet challenges, a passion for technology and development, a commitment to applying engineering best practice to produce top quality solutions.
We can offer you:
An excellent career move.
The chance to work with great developers, in fact, great people across the board.
The space to be trusted to do what you do best and to make decisions that matter.
The potential to tackle big…