Senior Frontend Software Engineer

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.  

 

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are passionate about building performant and scalable web applications, enjoy working with modern frontend frameworks and component-driven architectures, and are experienced in delivering reliable user experiences in high-impact domains such as payments and fintech, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.

The job in brief: 

• Job Title - Senior Frontend Developer
• Working model - hybrid from Chiasso
• Team - you will join the Payments and Fintech Engineering team
• Level - Professional 
• Location - Chiasso, Switzerland 
• Contract - Permanent - full-time (36 h/week)

 

What your impact will be:

• Coding new features, fixing bugs and optimising code
• Working with the Team to break down User Stories into tasks that can be worked on
• Analysing performance metrics and logs using monitoring tools
• Updating technical documentation
• Collaborating with designers, testers, product owners and other developers
• Conducting and participating in code reviews
• Evolving and maintaining our websites
• Performance optimisations
• Technical reviews

Your expertise:

• Deep understanding of React.js, including its core principles, such as Hooks and state management.
• Proficiency in: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3.
• Experience with: TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js and the NPM ecosystem, Testing frameworks, especially Jest.
• Git, git-flow and version control best practices.
• Communicative English

 

Desirable: 

• Knowledge of Ai coding assistants like Claude Code
• Practical knowledge of accessibility standards and best practices.
• Knowledge of CSS-in-JS libraries or frameworks.
• Understanding of Next.js server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and API routes.
• Familiarity with testing tools like React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Browser, Server and CDN Caching Techniques.

How we work together:

• An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
• Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays 
• Flexible start and end of the working day
• Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

 

How we learn together:

• Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.
• Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other perks:

• 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
• Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
• Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
• We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.

Wish you were here? We do, too!

 

Selection process steps*:

• (Remote) HR interview (30 minutes)
• (On-site, Chiasso) Manager Interview + Pair Programming session with the team (90 minutes)
• Offer extended

(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

 

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

 

Eligibility criteria:

By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.