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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Manager- Editorial Content
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Open
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Design
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1000 staff across 11 offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/the-next-step-in-skyscanners-journey">acquired</a> by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free, and our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p> We put our travellers at the heart of everything we do and want that to shine through in every sentence we write.</p>
<p> We're looking for a brilliant editorial lead to create our regional editorial strategy, writing and commissioning compelling and emotionally engaging editorial content for our website, social channels and organic search. While you have a passion for SEO and current trends, your obsession lies in writing for people, rather than machines. </p>
<p> You'll commission, write and edit everything from on-brand, inspirational destination pages to trend-based news site articles. Working with a small talented team of in-house writers, you'll also use your extensive contacts to build a large global network of expert travel freelancers to manage editorial content.</p>
<p> You'll help lead the discovery of new topics and areas of editorial expertise for the company, as well as the optimisation of existing content. In partnership with our data science team, you'll strive to find new way to turn numbers into valuable insights that will support our editorial aims and inspire travellers to make the very best travel choices.</p>
<p> You get under the skin of business objectives and deliver copy that is free of cliches and ranks well for search. Working alongside teams focused on increasing conversion, engagement and website traffic, you'll be hungry to understand the performance of your content and seek to scale your successes.</p>
<p> Finally, as a guardian of our brand voice, your naturally warm and conversational tone is matched by your creative flair. Oh, and you come full of enthusiasm and brimming with fresh ideas our travellers will love.</p>
<p> About you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your portfolio speaks for itself. You've earned your stripes in travel or lifestyle writing, and have the projects to prove it.</li>
<li>You know the importance of creating compelling and useful articles, landing pages and newsletters while making sure relevant copy is optimised for SEO.</li>
<li>Working with translation teams and remote freelancers doesn't phase you. You're aware of localisation best practices and are the guardian of maintaining a unified voice across languages.</li>
<li>You know how to make everything helpful, friendly and distinctly Skyscanner - from routes and destinations pages, to news and travel features.</li>
<li>You can demystify complex jargon, data and language into something everyone can understand.</li>
<li>Highly curious, you value the importance of user research and you learn through experimentation and testing. If something isn't working, you adapt and improve.</li>
<li>Understanding what is practical and what causes problems, you can form proposals around these constraints and opportunities.</li>
<li>You're a travel junkie, committed to improving the industry and helping people have the very best experience.</li>
</ul>
<p> What you'll be doing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Writing creative, engaging and valuable on-brand editorial content for travellers.</li>
<li>Helping to manage the global editorial content calendar, coordinating with SEO and regional leads on targets and strategy.</li>
<li>Creating an editorial strategy for your region, informed by keyword research, product and the latest travel trends.</li>
<li>Proactively seeking areas for improvement in our global editorial strategy, identifying solutions and communicating across teams.</li>
<li>Communicating editorial opportunities and risks across all parts of the organisation (including overseas markets).</li>
<li>Analysing top performing pages and carrying out experiments to increase engagement</li>
<li>Identifying opportunities for optimisation and areas for improvement the funnel.</li>
<li>Connecting the dots between products and platforms, identifying cross-over and finding solutions that create consistency.</li>
<li>Acting as a point of contact and source of expertise for editorial writing and suggesting ways to improve existing processes.</li>
<li>Working with designers, product managers, engineering developers and business owners to define and deliver the best experience for travellers.</li>
<li>Working closely with translation teams and local freelancers to ensure messaging and tone of voice is kept consistent across all languages.</li>
<li>Working alongside other copywriters and reporting to the Principal Copywriter.</li>
<li>Evangelising for readability, usability and creativity.</li>
<li>Helping colleagues become better writers by sharing best practice, collaborating, training.</li>
</ul>
<p>Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach 80 million users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you can thrive.</p>
<p>Join us now.</p>
<p> #LI-JM1</p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
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Open
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Engineering
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> operates in a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/17/heres-how-spotify-scales-up-and-stays-agile-it-runs-squads-like-lean-startups/">Tribes and Squads model</a> and we have built an engineering culture where there is a high level of trust, autonomy and transparency. <a href="https://youtu.be/pUkYP5Pfefg">Our engineers</a> work in autonomous squads where they can create their own backlog, ship code whenever they want and don’t have dependencies in order to deliver to the traveller. Our engine uses global scale services, big data and machine learning to assemble, normalise and make sense of real time information from our thousands of partners. Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach over 80 million users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you can thrive.</p>
<p>Our engineering principles are:</p>
<ul>
<li>We have a clear definition of success for every piece of work.</li>
<li>We ship multiple times a day and deliver customer value week in, week out.</li>
<li>We use design reviews to validate every significant change.</li>
<li>We deliver our products using our defined technology standards.</li>
<li>We peer review every change.</li>
<li>Our Definitions of Done include being live in production… responsibly.</li>
<li>You build it, you run it.</li>
</ul>
<p>Most importantly, these are organic beliefs. We iterate. We learn. We grow. And our principles adapt with us.</p>
<p>We’re currently building some exceptional tooling, with deploy pipelines out of the box, allowing our engineers to ship changes quickly. We’re also working on server side/hybrid rendering strategies for our iOS and Android apps, as well as looking at React Native.</p>
<p><strong>What you can expect as a senior software engineer</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A supportive, trusting and transparent working environment</li>
<li>A place to look at things differently and offer up solutions, as well as challenging them</li>
<li>Collaboration across product engineering, from initial ideas to solutions going live</li>
<li>Being responsible for multiple key product feature components within your area</li>
<li>You’ll define and implement the services that make up a complex sub system within the scope of your area</li>
<li>An opportunity to influence your fellow engineers, and be generous with your time and experience</li>
<li>Learning from the similarly great minds around you</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we’re looking for</strong></p>
<p>Previous job experience as a software engineer, ideally within ideally within a highly scalable environment.</p>
<ul>
<li>Metrics driven approach to making decisions, prioritisation and continuous deployment</li>
<li>Modern engineering mindset – you’re keen to experiment and use A/B testing in order to move forward quickly and efficiently</li>
<li>Use of methodologies for continuous delivery to improve travellers’ experiences</li>
<li>You feel comfortable balancing technical, analytical and product needs, and know the difference between Single Page Apps and Server-Side Rendering</li>
<li>You’re enthusiastic about meeting customer needs and appreciate what makes beautiful product, UX and design</li>
<li>You make others better proactively through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring.</li>
<li>Capable of working with others to build a new frontend codebase from scratch, enabling us to scale through component driven development</li>
<li>You’re excited by modern frontend technologies and frameworks, such as: ES6, Sass/Less, Webpack, npm, React, Vue and HTML, CSS</li>
<li>We don’t expect you to be a backend expert but would anticipate experience with some, and curiosity for others, such as JavaScript, Java, Python</li>
<li>It would be useful to have experience in large scale systems deployed to AWS</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What else can we offer you……</strong></p>
<p>We also provide for your health with medical insurance, health screening options, headspace subscription and an employee assistance programme to support you and your loved ones. </p>
<p>Then it gets really interesting, and you can buy more holiday, donate to a good cause, take part in 2 hackdays per year, and 1 charity day, work from your home country for up to 3 weeks, spend up to 30 days working from another of our offices globally, and you have the option to take part in Skyscanner extended annual leave which is an additional 3 weeks’ break (unpaid) after 3 years’ service or take 5 weeks’ break (paid) after 5 years’ service.</p>
<p><em>For more details on Engineering at Skyscanner you can check our <a href="https://medium.com/@Skyscannereng">Engineering Blog</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyscannerEng">Skyscanner Engineering</a> on Twitter</em></p>
<p><em>MM1</em></p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Systems Engineer
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Open
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Engineering
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p>Our Platform and Enablement Tribes are looking for Senior Systems Engineers with experience running and monitoring high scale systems in the cloud. </p>
<p>Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach 80 million monthly unique users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence.</p>
<p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Empower product developers to run their high-scale services and data processing workloads on our platforms in an automated, self-service fashion.</li>
<li>Collaborate with other squads and share your deep understanding of your services and domain</li>
<li>Work on complex technical challenges such as:
<ul>
<li>Multi-tenant compute platforms such as Kubernetes (where we run one of the largest installations in AWS) and ECS.</li>
<li>Scaling up our Kafka based Data Platform that provides the whole company with monitoring, alerting, real-time log inspection and secure storage of events</li>
<li>Improving the performance of our existing technology stack end-to-end in order to provide a better, quicker experience to our travellers.</li>
<li>Monitoring the status and traveller experience on the website, handling incidents and advocating improvements across the business and technical stacks on behalf of the traveller.</li>
<li>Empowering product squads with tracing and monitoring of requests as they travel through our platforms.</li>
<li>Improve our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IM85gmpVVQ">continuous deployment pipeline</a>, looking at innovative ways to ship our new features and configuration in a safe and swift manner.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we are looking for: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-native systems and services at scale, including open-source and commercial third-party solutions.</li>
<li>Experience and knowledge of administrating at least one cloud provider, preferably AWS</li>
<li>Proficient in scripting languages and experience working with production-ready Go, Java or Python</li>
<li>A good understanding of Docker &amp; multi-tenant compute environments (Kubernetes / ECS)</li>
<li>Monitoring and Alert configuration management</li>
<li>System design and decision-making based on data</li>
<li>Excellent troubleshooting and diagnosis skills across technologies</li>
<li>Good communications and teamworking skills</li>
<li>Passion for learning new technologies and adapting to a changing technological ecosystem</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>More info on Skyscanner: </strong></p>
<p>We employ over 1000 staff across eleven offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently acquired by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth.</p>
<p>We are proud to have a flexible working environment that sets our employees up for success. We provide for your health with medical insurance, health screening options, subsidised gym membership and headspace subscription, and an employee assistance programme to support you and your loved ones.</p>
<p><em>For more details on Engineering at Skyscanner you can check our </em><a href="https://medium.com/@Skyscannereng"><em>Engineering Blog</em></a><em> and follow </em><a href="https://twitter.com/SkyscannerEng"><em>Skyscanner Engineering</em></a><em> on Twitter</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>#LI-FH1</em></p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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2020 Register Interest Engineering Graduate
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Open
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Engineering
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p>We are currently closed for the 2019 intake. Please register your interest for 2020 Early Careers recruitment by filling in the below application.</p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Business Operations Delivery Manager
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Open
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Engineering
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p>We are looking for a senior Business operations delivery manager to be based in London or Edinburgh office providing a rare opportunity to come into a high growth business and help our teams deliver value for our travellers at pace. This is a role spanning multi-disciplined technology teams (engineering, product, marketing, design) and the wider business. You will be proficient at applying organizational design and operating models with a proven track record on leading change initiatives that support effective delivery and a confident data-led decision-maker. We are looking for someone who can make an immediate impact in how we deliver and scale solutions providing outcomes for our travellers and be part of our high growth journey.</p>
<p><strong>What you’ll be doing:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You will bring your business/operations leadership and entrepreneurial mind-set to identify and deliver effective, sustainable improvements to team delivery and operational effectiveness, working through varied problem spaces.</li>
<li>An authority on business operations and/or leading change programs with a broad knowledge of marketing, product and engineering. You have the ability to apply process/programs alone and combined to best effect in driving significant step change in organizational effectiveness and productivity.</li>
<li>Designing and leading the successful adoption of operational strategies, aligning product, marketing, data and engineering teams and individuals towards a shared vision.</li>
<li>Embracing and developing our culture of continuous improvement. You will drive an awareness of team health from both qualitative sources and well understood delivery metrics.</li>
<li>Having experience and a track-record in applying a range of Lean, TOC and Agile practices in varying situations. Your colleagues will call on you for mentoring on complex operational issues. You will share this knowledge through mentoring and impactful training which you will develop with others.</li>
<li>You champion the adoption of approaches used across the industry, bringing your experience and best practice to drive improvements locally &amp; globally where appropriate</li>
<li>Fostering strong working relations at all levels within the company together with a clear understanding of the collaboration and dependency needs of different teams and departments.</li>
<li>You are adept at managing senior stakeholders. You will help them understand systemic issues, getting their support for improvement initiatives</li>
<li>Building empathy and mutual understanding, you can apply appropriate approaches to establish strong foundations for successful teams</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>What you can expect as a Business operations delivery manager at Skyscanner </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A supportive, trusting and transparent working environment</li>
<li>A place to look at things differently, challenge and offer solutions</li>
<li>The opportunity to actively drive and lead change in a fast paced, thriving and growing, unique culture</li>
<li>A place where you can relish in your passion and enthusiasm for the travel market.</li>
<li>An environment of continuous improvement where you optimise for impact and velocity</li>
<li>A place where you can really make a difference and a rare opportunity to be part of and drive our continued growth.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p>
<p><strong>Must have:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Track record of instilling/enhancing operational effectiveness (People, process &amp; tools) delivering scalable solutions across multiple teams in a fast-moving tech company, or equivalent</li>
<li>You enable others in the solutioning and implementation of the most complex operations problems, often ambiguously scoped across the business.</li>
<li>Confident in applying a lean and agile approach across a large organization, mentoring and applying agile and lean theory techniques and ensuring we test, learn and embrace failure while scaling success.</li>
<li>Strong analytical skills, comfortable using data to frame and shape improvements and solutions.</li>
<li>Proven technical and team leadership, an enthusiastic and authentic leader who brings out the very best in teams</li>
<li>Passionate about understanding our travelers and serving their needs with a vision to create opportunities for us to deliver solutions for them at scale.</li>
<li>An effective communicator, building appropriate collaboration channels with the rest of the business with the gravitas to bring senior key leadership figures on-board and aligned to the plan.</li>
<li>Successful track record in designing, delivering and embedding change initiatives</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Preferred:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in Computer Science, Sciences, Engineering, Business</li>
<li>Experience applying the Theory of Constraints</li>
<li>Change management experience and/or Business Operations</li>
<li>Previous experience in the Travel sector</li>
<li>Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency</li>
<li>A good understanding and appreciation of emerging technology and the internet economy</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Why Us?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our vision is to be the most trusted and most used online travel brand in the world.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf12O29Y1s">Skyscanner</a> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1300 staff across ten offices globally, and, having reached market leader status. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 70m people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free, and our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p>We are proud to have a working environment that sets our employees up for success, as well as all the usual perks you would expect from barista machines to free food, to ping-pong matches to a holiday buying scheme, as well as frequent townhalls with our CEO and the opportunity to attend your induction in our Edinburgh HQ office. What we really aim for is a place where people can thrive, be trusted to make impact and ultimately help us put our users first.</p>
<p> We do not like top-down decision making (no ‘mini-CEOs’). We do not like pass-through management. What we value most is autonomy, nimbleness, and delivering an integrated experience for our travellers. Our squads are empowered to make decisions and figure out for themselves how to tackle our biggest challenges.</p>
<p>Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach 70 million monthly users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you can thrive.</p>
<p>Join us now</p>
<p> </p>
<p>#LI-FH1</p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
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Open
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Engineering
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Glasgow, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> operates in a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/17/heres-how-spotify-scales-up-and-stays-agile-it-runs-squads-like-lean-startups/">Tribes and Squads model</a> and we have built an engineering culture where there is a high level of trust, autonomy and transparency. <a href="https://youtu.be/pUkYP5Pfefg">Our engineers</a> work in autonomous squads where they can create their own backlog, ship code whenever they want and don’t have dependencies in order to deliver to the traveller. Our engine uses global scale services, big data and machine learning to assemble, normalise and make sense of real time information from our thousands of partners. Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach over 80 million users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you can thrive. </p>
<p>Our engineering principles are:</p>
<ul>
<li>We have a clear definition of success for every piece of work.</li>
<li>We ship multiple times a day and deliver customer value week in, week out.</li>
<li>We use design reviews to validate every significant change.</li>
<li>We deliver our products using our defined technology standards.</li>
<li>We peer review every change.</li>
<li>Our Definitions of Done include being live in production… responsibly.</li>
<li>You build it, you run it.</li>
</ul>
<p>Most importantly, these are organic beliefs. We iterate. We learn. We grow. And our principles adapt with us</p>
<p>If you enjoy a range of technical challenges across areas such as machine learning, data engineering, cloud services, developer enablement, scalability, optimisation, real time accuracy, building world-class APIs and automation then this could be the place where you can utilise your experience to have direct impact on the growth and development of our product.</p>
<p><strong>What you can expect as a senior software engineer</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A supportive, trusting and transparent working environment.</li>
<li>A place to look at things differently and challenge and offer solutions.</li>
<li>Overall responsibility of multiple key product feature components within your area.</li>
<li>You will define and implement services that make up a complex sub system.</li>
<li>Collaboration across all relevant product engineering development lifecycles.</li>
<li>An opportunity to learn from the similarly great minds around you</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Previous job experience as a software engineer ideally within a highly scalable environment.</li>
<li>Metrics driven approach to decision making, prioritisation and continuous deployment.</li>
<li>Use of methodologies for continuous delivery and improvement.</li>
<li>Comfortable balancing trade offs between technical, analytical and product needs.</li>
<li>Strong customer focus and a focus on impactful work.</li>
<li>You make others better through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring.</li>
<li>You will work with or lead within your team to break down solutions into small tasks to be completed autonomously.</li>
<li>It would be useful to have experience in large scale systems deployed to AWS.</li>
<li>We don’t expect you to be an expert in all of these technologies but would anticipate experience with some combined with a curiosity for others- Java, Python, .NET, C#, Docker, Elastic Search, AWS (or similar) NoSQL.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What else can we offer you……</strong></p>
<p>We also provide for your health with medical insurance, health screening options, gym membership, headspace subscription and an employee assistance programme to support you and your loved ones. </p>
<p>Then it gets really interesting, and you can buy more holiday, donate to a good cause, take part in 2 hackdays per year, and 1 charity day, work from your home country for up to 3 weeks, spend up to 30 days working from another of our offices globally, and you have the option to take part in Skyscanner extended annual leave which is an additional 3 weeks’ break (unpaid) after 3 years’ service or take 5 weeks’ break (paid) after 5 years’ service.</p>
<p><em>For more details on Engineering at Skyscanner you can check our <a href="https://medium.com/@Skyscannereng">Engineering Blog</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyscannerEng">Skyscanner Engineering</a> on Twitter</em></p>
<p><em>#LI-PD1</em></p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 27th, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Finance Manager
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Open
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Finance
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf12O29Y1s">Skyscanner</a></u> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1,000 staff across eleven offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently <u><a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/the-next-step-in-skyscanners-journey">acquired</a></u> by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m+ people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free, and our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p> Our Finance tribe exists to Protect Today and Power Tomorrow for Skyscanner and is at the heart of the company’s growth. As part of Skyscanner’s continued growth we are developing a new business stream and this newly created finance manager role represents an exciting opportunity to shape how finance supports this growth. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right individual with the potential for real impact in our business as well as accelerated personal development.</p>
<p><strong>What you can expect as a Senior Finance Manager</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A lead finance role in an exciting new business stream with the opportunity to shape and develop the financial operating model and your own role within it</li>
<li>Establish the financial processes and controls for a new key business stream in Skyscanner ensuring these are scalable to support future growth</li>
<li>Ownership of the accounting and reporting of this new business stream working closely with other finance squads, operations and Ctrip to deliver this</li>
<li>Build an in-depth knowledge of the transactional flows and processes associated with the new business stream to ensure financial risks and requirements are understood, communicated and addressed</li>
<li>Work collaboratively with the relevant operations and product teams to provide finance support and challenge</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Qualified accountant with proven post qualification experience</li>
<li>Ideally experience of working in the travel industry with experience of accounting for all operational transactions</li>
<li>Proven ability to develop and implement complex financial processes and controls ideally including systems implementation</li>
<li>Experience of delivering monthly financial reporting</li>
<li>Strong technical accounting knowledge</li>
<li>Willing to make decisions and assume accountability and responsibility</li>
<li>Experience of people management</li>
<li>Be able to engage with and influence colleagues of all levels of the organisation.</li>
<li>Strong problem-solving and organisation skills, including the ability to handle competing priorities and meet tight deadlines</li>
<li>Be willing to travel to all Skyscanner offices if required</li>
<li>Someone with the drive and determination to succeed in our fast paced and ever-growing business</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>We can offer you....</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A fantastic career opportunity within a global business that’s going places.</li>
<li>Learning opportunities galore.</li>
<li>A fast paced, exhilarating work environment</li>
</ul>
<p>We are proud to have a supportive working environment that sets our employees up for success.</p>
<p>What we really aim for is a place where people can thrive, be trusted to make impact and ultimately help us put our users first.</p>
<p><strong>Closing date for applications is August 1, 2019</strong></p>
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Jul 27th, 2019 03:23AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 28th, 2019 12:00AM
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Operations Analyst Contractor
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Open
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Business
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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GBR
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Jul 26th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1,000 staff across eleven offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/the-next-step-in-skyscanners-journey">acquired</a> by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free, and our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p>We're looking for excellent Operations Analysts to join our newest Operations team on an initial 6 month period. Working alongside our Product and Engineering functions, you will become a key part of a small team tasked with scaling up Skyscanner's capability to deliver transformative customer care for our travellers.</p>
<p><br> <strong>What you can expect:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Analyse current operational capability, process and procedures</li>
<li>Participate in operational planning and communications</li>
<li>Develop insights to evaluate usage and success of products &amp; services</li>
<li>Sync with developments in app and mid/back office development</li>
<li>Define "jobs to be done" (JTBD) to deliver operational excellence</li>
<li>Plan and deliver incremental changes to drive operational improvement</li>
<li>Validate process</li>
<li>You'll be responsible for operational analysis and process improvement in a given goal area, such as:
<ul>
<li>Operational Readiness,</li>
<li>Product Deployment</li>
<li>Market Expansion</li>
<li>Operational Support</li>
<li>Customer Care</li>
<li>Booking Fulfilment</li>
<li>Finance Operations</li>
<li>Capability Scaling</li>
<li>Business Intelligence</li>
<li>Resource Planning</li>
<li>Reporting</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What we are looking for</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strong problem solvers with a natural aptitude to communicating clear solutions to complex problems.</li>
<li>You'll need to be detail orientated and passionate about travel and travellers.</li>
<li>You'll know how to work with multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver transformational improvement in a way that has everyone on board from the start.</li>
<li>Proven ability to liaise with technical and product teams both remotely and locally </li>
<li>Proven ability to liaise with external suppliers on both a technical and operational basis</li>
<li>Expertise in delivering analysis and reports to key external and internal stakeholders</li>
<li>An ability to understand the operational impact of architectural and technical decisions being made by our various squads and guide their hands where necessary</li>
<li>Experience delivering operational support for customers who have booked travel products and services</li>
<li>Deep knowledge, experience and expertise to the requisite level in one or more of the following:
<ul>
<li>Booking and ticketing air travel</li>
<li>Operational management in the travel sector</li>
<li>Delivering process automation in the travel sector</li>
<li>Sales reporting or supplier settlement and billing in the travel sector</li>
<li>Working with a travel brand from start-up to serious contender or beyond</li>
<li>Direct experience with a major GDS, PSS or distribution platform or a key technology provider within the passenger transportation industry</li>
<li>Direct experience working with a major settlement platform such as BSP, ARC or ICH</li>
<li>Direct experience in working with a major fare distribution or rich media/content management platform such as ATPCO, Routehappy or Travelport</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why Us?</strong></p>
<p>We are proud to have a working environment that sets our employees up for success, as well as all the usual <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/news/pub-discounts-ping-pong-pah-the-real-benefits-of-working-at-a-tech-company">perks you would expect</a> from barista machines to massage chairs, to free food, holiday buying scheme as well as frequent townhalls with our CEO. What we really aim for is a place where people can thrive, be trusted to make impact and ultimately help us put our users first.</p>
<p>What you will get in Edinburgh -</p>
<p>Our Headquarters office is situated in the beautiful city of Edinburgh where the company was founded. An office which boasts an aircraft wing as its reception desk, in flight seating which double as massage chairs and many spaces to be creative and take time out to catch some headspace. Situated near the Meadows park in the midst of a thriving start up and tech community, it’s the home of many of our Product Engineering and Growth tribes and with space to hire many more staff we are excited to welcome our new recruits.</p>
<p>Skyscanner can offer you large scale, complex problems where you can reach 80 million users whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence and a flexible working environment where you can thrive.</p>
<p>Join us now.</p>
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Jul 28th, 2019 03:15AM
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Jul 28th, 2019 03:15AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 2nd, 2019 12:00AM
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Product Manager - Shenzhen
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Open
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Product
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Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Shenzhen
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Guangdong
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CHN
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Jun 20th, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1000 staff across 11 offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/the-next-step-in-skyscanners-journey">acquired</a> by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free, and our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p>The view from 32,000ft</p>
<p><strong>Our vision is to be the most trusted and most used online travel brand in the world.</strong></p>
<p>People love travel, but hate travelling. Travel is one of the great joys in life, yet online travel is fundamentally broken. We are here to fix it, with world-class software, and a relentless focus on the traveller. At Skyscanner we are dedicated to solving the travel needs of our friends, family, and the world. Our traveller-first approach and award-winning apps and service have made us the #1 independent travel brand worldwide, with over 60 million monthly users across more than 30 countries.</p>
<p><strong>Our Cabin Crew</strong></p>
<p><strong>We hire the best, then get out of their way.</strong></p>
<p>Our PMs are builders who love to create things and change the world through technology. They are skilled at the Why, the How and the What of making and iterating products to find market-fit. They are not purely ‘organizers’, ‘sellers’ or ‘explorers’, though they are versed in all three dimensions. They are multi-facetted entrepreneurs who know how to generate insights, set direction, and get things done in tech &amp; business.</p>
<p>We’re looking for Product Managers who have delivered results—launching new features, delivering performance set-improvements, and challenging themselves and others to raise their game. Naturally data-driven, they nevertheless cut through complexity to identify high impact opportunities and simple solutions. They act decisively on these insights and collaborate with colleagues in a manner which inspires and motivates. Above all they are obsessed with travellers, understanding their pain-points and working continually to exceed their expectations.</p>
<p><strong>Expect Some Turbulence!</strong></p>
<p>Our approach to software development is unconventional. We do not have teams permanently dedicated to managing the various aspects of our products. There is no “Search team” or “Flights team”. We do not like top-down decision making (no ‘mini-CEOs’). We do not like pass-through management. What we value most is autonomy, nimbleness, and delivering an integrated experience for our travellers. So as a team, we are organized into over 60 autonomous ‘squads’ that can change focus on a dime, and join up to ‘swarm’ our current top business goals. Our squads are empowered to make decisions and figure out for themselves how to tackle our biggest challenges.</p>
<p>Our Product managers will typically work with one squad to deliver a goal, then pick up other goals as the work progresses and priorities shift. Their squads ship daily, test constantly, and try to deliver real traveller value every week. This means we look for generalist PMs who thrive on change, and are constantly taking on new challenges.</p>
<p>Whatever the challenge, our PMs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Find the ‘why’ behind the traveller problem.</li>
<li>Solve for the whole picture – seeing their work through the traveller’s eyes, creating solutions for the entire experience and thinking beyond its parts.</li>
<li>Work incredibly hard to keep things incredibly simple.</li>
<li>Use Lean approaches to break down big ideas into valuable pieces to deliver at fast pace.</li>
<li>Fail fast and often – until they don’t.</li>
<li>Take pride in their craft.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Ready to take off?</strong></p>
<p>Great product managers come from everywhere – their paths are as varied as the skills they have accumulated. What they share is a common aptitude — they are builders.</p>
<p>We value experience and accomplishment, but there is no set-list of requirements. If you feel this is the place where you will make your mark, we encourage you to apply!</p>
<p>Ideally:</p>
<ul>
<li>A bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in Computer Science or a STEM subject but we welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of what you’ve studied.</li>
<li>Experience as a Product Manager in a fast-moving internet company, or equivalent.</li>
<li>Experience driving product initiatives to successful completion, resulting in business impact.</li>
<li>Experience making hard, data-driven decisions (incl. AB testing, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics).</li>
<li>A passion for travel.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more insight into Product at Skyscanner, check out our Product VP’s recent blog on <a href="https://medium.com/@pierosierra/builders-make-the-best-product-people-22fdb8d75dfe#.66xpb63wo"><strong>What Makes The Best Product People</strong></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Join us now.</p>
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Jul 2nd, 2019 11:35AM
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Jul 2nd, 2019 11:35AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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nasdaq:ctrp
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www.skyscanner.net
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www.skyscanner.net
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Jul 3rd, 2019 12:00AM
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Senior Mobile Engineer - Shenzhen
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Open
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Engineering
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Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Shenzhen
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Guangdong
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CHN
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Jul 2nd, 2019 12:00AM
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6blmqhoZB8">Skyscanner</a> is a leading global travel search site and app, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices. We employ over 1000 staff across eleven offices globally, and, having reached market leader status, we were recently <a href="https://www.skyscanner.net/blogs/the-next-step-in-skyscanners-journey">acquired</a> by Chinese online travel company Ctrip in a deal valued at £1.4bn. While we remain operationally independent, our acquisition by Ctrip allows us to take the business to the next level of accelerated global growth. It’s a hugely exciting time for Skyscanner and the over 80m people who use us every month. We are unbiased and free; our secret is in our unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer.</p>
<p>We're seeking senior mobile engineers to join us in our Shenzhen office and be part of our highly distributed global team. We have a mantra for scaling and innovation and as such we are recruiting across several of our teams and this role has arisen due to that continued growth.</p>
<p>We’re building some kickass tooling, with deploy pipelines out of the box to get moving quickly and exploring server side/hybrid rendering strategies for our iOS and Android apps as well as looking at ReactNative.</p>
<p>If you enjoy a range of technical challenges across app development where we are building and shipping features from the ground up, then this could be the role for you. Product teams working on mobile apps also do data analysis, design systems and release services which all adds up to a mobile experience.</p>
<p>Skyscanner operates in a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/17/heres-how-spotify-scales-up-and-stays-agile-it-runs-squads-like-lean-startups/">Tribes and Squads model</a> and we have created an engineering culture where there is a high level of trust, autonomy and transparency. <a href="https://youtu.be/pUkYP5Pfefg">Our engineers</a> work in autonomous teams (squads), they create their own backlog, they ship code whenever they want and don’t have dependencies in order to deliver to their users. Our engine uses global scale services, big data and machine learning to capture, normalise and make sense of real time information from our thousands of partners.</p>
<p><strong>What you can expect as a senior mobile engineer</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A supportive, trusting and transparent working environment</li>
<li>A place to look at things differently and challenge and offer solutions</li>
<li>Overall responsibility of multiple key product feature components within your area</li>
<li>You will define and implement services that make up a complex sub system within the scope of your area</li>
<li>Collaboration across all relevant product engineering development lifecycles</li>
<li>An opportunity to influence the engineers around you</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Previous job experience as a software engineer ideally within an internet economy business</li>
<li>Metrics driven approach to decision making, prioritisation and continuous deployment</li>
<li>Proven competencies in developing, releasing and maintaining native apps</li>
<li>Use of agile/lean methodologies for continuous delivery and improvement</li>
<li>Comfortable balancing trade offs between technical, analytical and product needs</li>
<li>Strong customer focus and appreciation of what makes good product, UX and design</li>
<li>You make others better proactively through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring</li>
<li>You will work with or lead your team to break down solutions into small tasks to be completed autonomously</li>
<li>We don’t expect you to be an expert in all of these technologies but would anticipate experience with some, combined with a curiosity for others- Objective-C, Java, Swift, Fastlane, Gradle, Microservices, Docker, Drone, AWS, SQL, Python, Elasticsearch</li>
<li>It would be useful to have experience in large scale systems deployed to AWS<br><br></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What else can we offer you……</strong></p>
<p>We also provide for your health with medical insurance, health screening options, gym membership, headspace subscription and an employee assistance programme to support you and your loved ones. Then it gets really interesting, and you can buy more holiday, donate to a good cause, take part in 2 hackdays per year, and 1 charity day, work from your home country for up to 3 weeks, spend up to 30 days working from another of our offices globally. You also have the option to take part in our extended annual leave which is an additional 3 weeks’ break (unpaid) after 3 years’ service or take 5 weeks’ break (paid) after 5 years’ service.</p>
<p>Join us now.</p>
<p><em>For more details on Engineering at Skyscanner you can check our <a href="https://medium.com/@Skyscannereng">Engineering Blog</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyscannerEng">Skyscanner Engineering</a> on Twitter </em></p>
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Jul 3rd, 2019 05:57AM
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Jul 3rd, 2019 05:57AM
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Ctrip.com
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Consumer Services
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Travel & Leisure
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