Current Vacancies

Working at Simpson Travel

Working at Simpson Travel is an opportunity to be part of a passionate, highly motivated team who are committed to delivering excellent customer service. We have an industry heritage of over 40 years and draw on our combined knowledge and experience to offer award-winning travel experiences that enable us to stand out from the crowd. Our culture is inclusive, collaborative and still has strong family values. We're currently enjoying a period of ambitious growth and transformation and your role will be pivotal in helping the company achieve its goals.

Our UK Benefits Include:

  • Hybrid Working Arrangement (Minimum of 2 days in the Richmond Office)
  • Company Pension Scheme with Royal London (after three months' service)
  • 25 days’ Annual Leave (increases to 28 with length of service) plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for fixed term contracts and part-time hours)
  • Generous Holiday Concessions after six months' service
  • Friend and Family Discounts on Simpson Travel holidays
  • Educationals – trips for sales staff to get to know and understand our destinations
  • Complimentary Annual Worldwide Travel Insurance Policy (excluding ski)
  • ‘Cycle to Work’ Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Please see below for a list of all our current vacancies.

Full Stack Developer

 

Full-Time
(Hybrid working,
2/3 days in London
(Richmond office)

 

 

The Role:

As a Full Stack Developer you will be working across all of the business systems; your role will begin by providing support and maintenance to meet the requirements of the various business departments, implementing bug fixes, minor enhancements.  Once up to speed there will be the opportunity to contribute to more major development projects.

 

Key responsibilities:

  • Design and implementation of front end and back end solutions to urgent business requirements
  • Interfacing with business teams directly to provide day to day operational support and point of contact for live issues as well as ensuring their ability to use the business systems effectively
  • Improving the quality of the codebase as you make changes, making sure such changes are documented and adhere to coding and QA standards
  • Implementing automated unit testing for the software developed ideally with TDD/BDD
    Work within the continuous integration environment to make sure hot fixes are pushed to production in a timely manner supported by the QA lead.

What we're looking for:

  • Experience in implementing business process automation tools 
  • Full Stack development experience (ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, ReactJS, AngularJS, MS SQL Server)
  • CMS experience e.g. with Umbraco
  • Experience of structured testing and quality assurance approaches (e.g. Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development)
  • A positive and cooperative individual who will work effectively across departments and within a team
  • A good communicator and able to manage and work with a variety of stakeholders and departments across the business

Desirable:

  • At least, 2-3 years commercial experience
  • Continuous Delivery skills, tools and techniques (e.g. Git, Github, Jenkins, Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, Selenium, etc.) 
  • Familiar with Azure cloud services & setting up/managing resources/deploying apps
  • Capable of working with (and developing) multiple (REST) APIs documented with e.g. OpenAPI/swagger
  • Other API messaging formats e.g. JSON, XML, SOAP 

If this sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you. Please email your CV and covering letter to: careers@simpsontravel.com

 

 

OVERSEAS ROLES

We have no overseas roles available at present. However, if you live in one of our featured destinations, speak the language of that country (+ English!) fluently and are interested in joining the team, please feel free to get in touch via careers@simpsontravel.com and we'll keep your details on file.

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