Staff Frontend Developer

Are you ready to shape the future of travel tech at scale? We are seeking an exceptional Staff Frontend Developer to drive technical excellence across our entire booking funnel. We're among the leading travel tech companies worldwide, growing substantially and sustainably year after year, with a mission to make vacation home booking and hosting decisions stress-free and packed with joy. Our vibrant team of over 600 talented individuals from 60+ countries shares a passion for cutting-edge technology, constant improvement, and creating exceptional experiences for our 50,000 hosts and 100 million website users each year.

The Unique Challenge
: Unlike typical e-commerce, we engineer for extreme seasonality — our traffic can surge by 10x when vacation season hits. As a Staff Frontend Developer, you'll architect systems that gracefully handle 10x traffic spikes while maintaining sub-second response times across our entire booking funnel, from discovery to conversion.

Your future team

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be the technical authority across all teams in the booking funnel — from the Discovery team's list pages all the way through the checkout funnel to the Post Booking experience. You'll design and implement overarching frontend architecture that scales to handle millions of users, while establishing best practices that elevate the entire engineering department.

You'll work strategically with Engineering Managers and Department Leaders to shape the long-term technical vision. Your influence will extend department-wide as you lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor senior developers, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies that align with Holidu's ambitious growth strategy.

Our Tech Stack

• Core Technologies
  : TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Zustand, TailwindCSS, Express, Vite, SSR.
• Data Infrastructure
  : DynamoDB, Redis.
• Cloud & DevOps
  : AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git.
• Monitoring & Analytics
  : Sentry, ELK, Grafana, Looker, OpsGenie, and internally developed technologies.

Your role in this journey

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Define the technical vision and strategy for the frontend engineers of GX department, aligning with organisational goals and anticipating industry trends.
• Architect scalable, high-availability frontend systems serving 1M+ daily users across the entire booking funnel.
• Lead the design and implementation of department-wide technical initiatives that impact conversion rates, customer satisfaction, and technical excellence.
• Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks proactively, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with Engineering Managers and Department Leaders to shape the technical roadmap.
• Contribute to specifications for large-scale projects, organizing parallel workstreams that reassemble into cohesive launches.
• Work across six teams to enable a foundation for building cohesive user experiences.
• Represent the frontend department in high-level strategic discussions and decision-making processes.

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Establish, iterate on, and enforce engineering best practices (testing, documentation, architecture) department-wide.
• Review code and set quality standards that become the gold standard across teams.
• Lead the adoption of new technologies and frameworks, ensuring they align with long-term company strategy.
• Troubleshoot any production issues within the department, providing strategic solutions.

Mentorship & Knowledge Leadership

• Mentor senior developers, helping them grow into technical leaders.
• Lead department-wide knowledge sharing initiatives and technical workshops.
• Define learning goals with Engineering Managers and drive continuous improvement.
• Support and lead recruitment processes, from defining profiles to conducting interviews.

Your backpack is filled with

Technical Expertise

• 8+ years of frontend development experience with deep expertise in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, and ReactJS.
• Proven track record of architecting large-scale frontend applications handling millions of users.
• Expert-level proficiency with state management, performance optimization, and modern build tools.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with using LLM for customer facing products and in improving DevEx.
• Understanding of A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven development is a plus.

Leadership & Strategic Thinking

• Demonstrated ability to define and execute technical strategies at department or company level.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of ROI and ability to make strategic short-term vs. long-term trade-offs.
• Track record of successfully delivering complex, multi-team projects.

Business & Domain Knowledge

• Ability to connect technical decisions to business KPIs and department goals.
• Experience working closely with product and business stakeholders at all levels.
• "You build it, you run it" mentality with ownership mindset.
• Understanding of e-commerce metrics, conversion optimization, and user experience is a plus.

Our adventure includes

• Strategic Impact
  : Shape the technical direction of a rapidly growing travel tech leader.
• Technical Excellence
  : Work with cutting-edge technologies and influence architectural decisions.
• Leadership Growth
  : Lead initiatives that impact millions of users and mentor the next generation of engineers.
• Innovation Culture
  : Champion bottom-up ideas and drive technical innovation department-wide.
• Learning & Development
  : Substantial budget for conferences, courses, and continuous learning.
• AI-Forward
  : Join a company embracing the AI revolution with regular meet-ups and knowledge exchanges.
• Work-Life Balance
  : Hybrid model (2 days office), 28 vacation days + 10 unpaid, work abroad up to 8 weeks/year.
• Competitive Package
  : Above-market compensation benchmarked against leading Munich scale-ups.
• Growth Story
  : Be part of an 11-year success story with stable funding and path to profitability.

Want to travel with us?

Take a peek into our culture on Instagram @lifeatholidu and check out Tech at Holidu to meet the people behind the product.

Apply now and let's make vacation dreams come true – at scale.

For external headhunters: we are only working with a selected group of recruitment agencies and are not open to working with new headhunters.

Location

Munich, Germany