Full Stack Developer - Booking Experience Team (M/F)

Location: Paris, Île-de-France, fr

Company Description

Part of TripAdvisor Media Group since May 2014, LaFourchette (TheFork) is the leading European restaurant booking platform with more than 30 000 restaurants on 9 European markets. Our vision is to become the #1 restaurant app for diners outside of US, China, Japan. In order to do so, the plan is to:

- Deploy our business models on new geographical markets

- Continue scaling our operations

- And continue our mission to help people discover and book great restaurants and to help restaurants get additional demand and better manage their booking and CRM.

Our business model (subscription and commission based) is recurring and scalable The restaurant industry is massive ($1800 billion revenue/year), traditional and fragmented.

We are always looking for passionate, data driven, user oriented and humble colleagues, ready to change an industry.

Job Description

You’ll be part of the team responsible for the user booking experience: from the moment a user chooses a restaurant to the meal at the restaurant itself. So it means we have to ensure a coherent and fluid experience of the booking flow on every devices, communications and services offered to the user.

Examples of challenges for the team will be on availability optimisation for last minute booking, optimizing booking funnel steps, have a better access to next bookings or unvalidated checkouts, urgency messages display.

We are looking for an ambitious and autonomous full stack developer to work on improving our product and bring new ideas. You’ll have to show us that you are able to rapidly prototype new features across the front and back end, kick around ideas with our design team and streamline our deployment process.

Our culture is constantly evolving, and you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to new ideas to complement and enhance the existing programs (mentoring, technical talks, conferences, etc.).

Your mission:

• Cross-browser web & mobile application development
• Technical conception with your team

Own your product, be proactive on development ideas

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• Strong programming experience (3+ years), with a good knowledge of web development.
• Mastery of PHP with a significant experience on Symfony2
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Strong commitment to quality design, automated testing, and documentation. Knowledge of best practices in testing and versioning.

• Comfortable with Agile environments (SCRUM).
• Sense of ownership and ability to drive issues and new ideas.
• Analytical problem solving skills.
• You are a good team player, who knows how to communicate well with non-tech people.
• Good communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
• Knowledge on how to create and interact with APIs (REST, JSON RPC)

Booking XP’s Stack:

• PHP 5.5, Symfony 2
• Behat - PHPUnit
• MySQL
• Angular 1.3, ECMAScript 6
• RabbitMQ
• Less - Grunt - Phing
• ELK - New Relic

Development environment: Vagrant - Chef - PhpStorm - Git (GitHub). OSX/Ubuntu.

Bonus points:

• First experience with nodejs
• Mastery of behat
• First experience with a frontend framework
• Work on personal projects, curious about new technologies.
• Experience with developing and extending large and complex systems.
• Proven track record on shipping products/services with high quality standards.
• High tolerance to offbeat humour and love of endless debates (ex: “private” vs. “protected”?)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.