We’re HouseTrip. We’re 20+ engineers, 6 product managers and 7 designers, passionate about building the best holiday rental website. We write good code to build an outstanding product.
If you are a passionate senior software engineer, and think you have some of the skills, drive and talent to help us to build up our team, we’d really like to hire you.
Why join us?
Simply because we’re the best team you can join in London. We work hard to deliver good software, and even harder on working well, together.
We get agile right
It’s important to us to give everyone a say and be efficient. We roll with a mixture of Kanban and XP, pair regularly, but that’s not enough. Every project is co-designed with engineers, product managers, designers and stakeholders. We’d never want our engineers to be code monkeys churning through the story mill.
We’re lean and mean
We like to deliver early and often. Good weeks see 2-3 daily deploys. That works because our teams are small (3-5 people), focused, and autonomous on planning, architecture, and design.
Systematic code reviews and good continuous integration is how we keep up.
We grok Ruby, Git, TDD, and OSS.
And use a bunch of other technologies daily; Rails, Haml, Sass, Backbone.JS, Sinatra, MySQL, Redis, Mongo, Puppet, AWS, ElasticSearch and Heroku being the most usual suspects. We use the tools we think are right, when the time is right. We scale when scale is needed.
We’re keen to learn and share about tech, too: conferences, ebooks, meetups, you name it. We even have a fledgling book club.
Our craftsmen are fab
We hire great engineers like Julien (http://github.com/mezis), Matt (http://github.com/matthutchinson) and Jesper (http://github.com/thejspr) who love teamwork, are keen on delivering good product, improve coding practices, give the odd technical talk, and contribute to open source software.
But we need more, and that’s where you come in: we believe it’s part of our job to teach and train each other—expect to coach and give talks.
We’ll challenge you
We need you to be an engineer and a leader. Keep your hands dirty, show initiative, motivate people, and get projects done. While keeping the big picture in mind. Sounds hard? We’re constantly adding or rebuilding features in sites that see monthly increases in traffic.
Oh, and we’re going service oriented. We need top-notch performance. We have tricky geek problems around geo, search, syncing, emails, monitoring, testing…
We’re a startup success story
We do business in 100s of countries. We’ve raised $40M and our website attracts 2.5M unique users monthly, push 20M pages, and run at 4.5k rpm. But we’re still a startup—which means you get to make a difference in a booming, successful business.
All that with the usual startup perks—rad office in Soho, brand new Macbook, unlimited coffee, table football, and even an office dog. Although someone did suggest we get a snake instead.
Still reading ? Give us a shout, let’s talk.
Want to have a look at our blog? http://dev.housetrip.com