Front End Developer

About the company:

Booking.com, part of Priceline.com listed on NASDAQ, is a market leader in online hotel reservations in Europe.
Does a successful career to you mean challenges and delivering results?
We offer a dynamic, motivating and sophisticated work environment. A culture that is open, innovative and performance orientated. Our scale and scope, commitment to people and high standards of integrity make Booking.com a great place to work.
If you would like to be part of a truly international company and finance team, if you think you can make a difference, have a closer look at this job opening.

Front End Developer in Amsterdam

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Job Description:
As an HTML/CSS/Javascript Front-End Developer, you will be implementing the user interfaces of the Booking.com website. You will work with colleagues in the design and development teams to implement website features which our users interact with directly. The successful candidate will be passionate about coding and have an excellent eye for detail and an absolute commitment to making sure features are well implemented and bug free.
Booking.com is the market leader in Europe for on-line hotel reservations with more than 1500 employees worldwide and a total of 30+  offices worldwide. Our headquarters is located in the centre of Amsterdam and we offer a dynamic international work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translating requirements and mockups into fully functioning features using HTML/CSS and JavaScript
• Day to day maintenance of the Booking.com websites and optimizing code for the best user experience
• Working together with colleagues of Design, IT and Marketing to improve usability and implement a/b tests

How we work:
We make our design decisions based on experiments and testing. We receive thousands of visits to our website on a daily basis; therefore we know instantly which experiments work and which don’t.

Required Skills:

• Expert in HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Comfortable working on a command line
• Knowledge of version control systems
• Excellent communicator with a pragmatic able to understand requirements
• Working knowledge of W3C standards for web development
• Able to work well independently and within a team

Required Experience:

• Front-end coding in a commercial environment
• Solid experience with Javascript
• Experience with templating systems
• Experience with validating and testing
• Experience with graphical software (e.g. Photoshop)
• Dealing with browser compatibility and implementing workarounds

We provide relocation packages for all the suitable candidates. 

Interested?
Please submit your CV in English and include your portfolio with your personal design contributions.

We want people who are willing to relocate and are really motivated to work with us and further their career. When submitting your CV please include a letter that describes your motivation so we understand how important it is to you. With your portfolio of design and web development work please provide clear examples with an explanation of your involvement which demonstrate your suitability for the role.

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