Web Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: London

Compensation: £60K – £80K

Employment Type: FullTime

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

As a Mid Level Web Engineer at Trainline, you will... 🚝

• Deliver new functionality or features, using the most appropriate tools & techniques

• Ensure quality is at the heart of everything you do

• Continuously improve the codebase

• Keep our customer as the number one priority

• Use A/B Testing to find the most valuable solution for customers

• Take ownership of the development lifecycle from code to production, including deployment and monitoring

Our Tech Stack 🔑

All our Web teams work with a variety of technologies and patterns. At our core we have:

• JavaScript, CSS, HTML

• React, Typescript

• Node, GraphQL

• AWS Cloud

• Docker, Terraform, Github Actions

We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍

• Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment

• Love using Agile development practices

• Have strong experience with React and Typescript

• Have hands-on experience in software development and delivery

• Have good testing practices

• Have great communication skills

• Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest and a team player

• Have a passion to learn new skills

The interview process 🚉

1. Recruiter Call

2. Competency based interview with 2x Engineers (60 mins)

3. Pair Programming interview with 2x Engineers (90 mins)

4. Meet the team you'll be joining (45 mins)

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!