Description

Ryanair Holdings plc, Europe’s largest airline group, is the parent company of Buzz, Lauda, Malta Air & Ryanair DAC.

Carrying 154m guests p.a. on more than 2,400 daily flights from 82 bases, the group connects over 200 destinations in 40 countries on a fleet of over 470 aircraft, with a further 210 Boeing 737s on order, which will enable the Ryanair Group to lower fares and grow traffic to 200m p.a. by FY25.

Ryanair Labs is the technology brand of Ryanair, a tech startup within an airline with offices based in Dublin, Madrid and Wroclaw and our most recent location Portugal.

With big plans to digitally revolutionise the travel industry, Ryanair Labs has embarked on its mission to become the Amazon of Travel with an encompassing Trip's platform.

Ryanair Labs is dedicated to hiring top IT talent, where software developers can have the freedom to work on game changing projects that will have an impact on our business and on more than 150m people a year.

The Team

Our Frontend development team is made up of almost 30 Software Engineer, working across 15 independent teams. These delivery focused project pods work on the Ryanair website, Ryanair Rooms website, and internal applications. Our continuous delivery approach means we follow the Agile Scrum methodology.

The Role

We are looking for talented front-end developers to join our digital development team. In this role you will work closely with our development and product team to develop, modify and support our website across all channels and our operational applications. We want someone who is motivated by emerging technologies and has a passion to drive digital transformation. A real desire to work in a collaborative and fast-paced retail environment is essential.

The Stack

• Our Tech Stack is based on the latest frontend technologies and frameworks.
• We are using the latest version of Angular and a microsites architecture.
• All our projects are hosted in the cloud (AWS) using a serverless infrastructure delivered with cloud native pipelines. We are using feature flags to rapidly deliver new functionalities to our users safely.

Your mission with us

Delivering best-in-class user interfaces across the Ryanair.com platform or other operational apps

Developing high quality, testable and performance software using agile practices

Driving best technology and software development practices in the team with passion and enthusiasm

Assisting analysts and business stakeholders in shaping, estimating and planning new requirements

Participating in regular showcases of new work to the product owners and business stakeholders

Striving for continuous improvement within the tea

Proficient on modern frontend techology stack (HTML5, Typescript, CSS)

Comfortable coding custom JavaScript solutions as well as utilising existing frameworks

Expert knowledge of building high performing and available websites and how to apply page performance optimisation techniques

Adept at building and maintaining cross browser/device compatible sites

Exposure or appreciation of agile development practices

Passionate about user experience

Comfortable working and maintaining a CI/CD environment.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Excellent understanding of the coding standards required for high volume websites from a security and performance perspective

Experience of working with large e-commerce websites and their underlying databases.

Bonus points AWS knowledge and proficiency

IT Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience

At least 5 years’ experience

Working on projects that will be seen by the millions of customers across Europe!