At Eurostar, we're on a mission to enhance Europe's most beloved travel experience. We're looking for a talented individual to join our vibrant, interconnected, and cosmopolitan team spanning five countries. Together, as the new Eurostar Group, we are united by a singular purpose: to spark new opportunities by creating consistently exceptional experiences for our passengers. Are you ready to be part of this remarkable journey?

In the Digital Sales Systems department, we’ve made it easy and enjoyable for our customers to book our trains and hotels by delivering rich, responsive, and engaging applications across multiple devices and building highly transactional micro-services to support our architecture. Building a beautiful and effective UX supported by performant APIs is key to the success of the company’s service and our team plays a pivotal role in making this a reality.

As a Developer in our Digital Sales Systems team, part of our engineering teams, you’ll be working with product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, and engineers to implement features across our estate of cloud native software products and services. We’re working in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, hosted on AWS with Kubernetes, with a fully automated continuous integration pipeline.

We believe in continuous delivery, testing our own software, and operating it in production, and would like to find people who are equally excited by these approaches. We actively encourage and facilitate personal development and learning, and together we have the opportunity to revolutionise Eurostar’s Digital distribution and customer experience platform, and set the technical tone for the organisation going forward.

Internal use only - Grade E Travel level 3

You'll be responsible for...

• Working as an integral part of an agile team contributing towards the planning and development of the systems the team use
• Collaborating with engineers, Product Owners and Business Analysts to define solutions, ways of working and share knowledge across the department
• Reviewing code and providing support to other members of the team
• Working on client-facing applications in React/Next.js
• Designing and building Node.js/GraphQL APIs
• Maintaining and improving the quality of the software we deliver, the codebases we work on and the tooling we use
• Regularly deploying code to production
• Helping to identify and resolve reported issues
• Keeping our customers' data safe

Requirements

You'll have...

Required

• Experience in writing modern JavaScript applications (frontend or backend, eg ECMAScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, etc) and a desire to learn more
• Basic understanding of DevOps/modern infrastructure practices (eg AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI, etc) and a desire to learn more
• Some experience in (automated) testing (unit or integration or E2E, etc) and a desire to learn more
• Experience working in autonomous agile environments
• Awareness of security best practices in software development

Desired

• Basic understanding of distributed systems design, including building for resilience and cloud architectural patterns
• Some experience following continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Some experience using event driven architectures and messaging
• Experience of HTTP API design or consumption

Benefits

• Travel benefits for work and play
• A great pension
• Exclusive discounts and perks

If you feel like your skills and experience are relevant for the role, please don't hesitate to apply!

Eurostar is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity.