Here at Jack’s Flight Club (JFC) we’re a remote team spread across the world that love finding bargain flights to enable our members to go on more vacations, take more adventures, and visit friends and family across the globe.
If you think you’d enjoy sharing the same passion for great deals, we’d love to hear more from you. Have a read below at some of the attributes that make a great JFC team member and see if you’d be a good fit.
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Deal & Content Writing Team Member (Remote, US business hours)
About the role
Jack’s Flight Club is a fully remote business with team members all over the world. We’re committed to uncovering outrageous deals on flights and removing the barriers to travel. We are looking to add an eagle-eyed flight searcher and content writer to turn our member’s (long overdue) travel dreams into reality.
You’ll be joining a small team of experts going the extra mile to find and write up engaging and informative cheap flight deals for our audience in the USA. The role will also have opportunities to write long-form content for a large community of budding travellers, as well as working with other areas to make JFC the go-to destination for travel content.
About you
Our ideal candidate is a passionate traveller who knows their way around travelling on a budget, who loves to go off the beaten track and mix with the locals.
Most importantly, they’ll have a keen eye for writing concise copy with personality and humour and get a kick out of sending someone on a holiday they never imagined taking.
You will get all the training and support you need to become an expert in air travel but a proven record of working with large data sets and making complex decisions is a big plus.
Responsibilities
- Searching for flight deals that help our members travel more and save cash.
- Writing engaging, informative and inspirational deal emails.
- Analysing sent emails performance and experimenting with future.
- Collaborating with other team members to ensure timely delivery and comprehensive coverage of deal emails.
- Writing longer form travel content for our social media and blog channels.
- Testing and giving feedback on new internal and customer-facing features.
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours) that involves some (limited/flexible) weekend work. Our deals are often time-sensitive, so we’re looking for someone who can work during US daytime hours.
Experience and requirements
- A quick-thinking and engaging writer who can adapt to our conversational, punchy tone, is good at polishing even the smallest details and delivering copy that’s ready to go.
- Just as important is the ability to analyze lots of data and build comprehensive expertise of flight pricing and location information.
- Someone who isn’t afraid to ask questions or receive and give feedback.
- Has flexibility for a few hours of work during weekends, on a rota.
- Understands how critical communication is at a fully remote company and has experience or can adapt to effectively collaborating with colleagues all over the world.
- Has some professional experience as a writer
- Good at picking up technical skills quickly and comfortable working with a range of software and tools.
- An understanding of SEO best practices is beneficial, but not required.
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Full Stack Developer - Remote (UK/EU hours)
About the role
Jack’s Flight Club is a fully remote business with team members all over the world. We’re committed to uncovering outrageous deals on flights, removing the barriers to travel and unlocking ways to make our members’ travel goals happen, reaching places they never thought possible, going on more vacations, taking more adventures or visiting friends and family across the globe.
We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our development team. We need a commercially experienced software developer who can contribute to making our services, platform and mobile applications better for our 1,000,000+ members and internal users.
This role will focus on expanding and supporting our flight finding technologies, known internally as Dealbot. It runs 24/7 looking for the best deals, and interacts directly with our flight finding team.
Our in-house technology stack is a combination of Python and Javascript services. Our services are cloud based being served from a variety of cloud providers, including AWS and GCP. Our platform architecture and services are distributed across:
- Python, Node.js - Backend services and tools.
- MongoDB, Redis and Postgres - Databases and caching.
- Angular, React - Web applications.
- React-Native - Mobile apps on iOS and Android.
We also work with a range of third party service providers to provide tools and services via APIs and automations.
As well as working on Dealbot you can also expect to work on projects covering any aspect of our systems, so be open to learn and share your knowledge! You’ll be contributing quickly and significantly to our development sprints, delivering new features and resolving issues across the platform as needed.
You’ll also participate in architecture, design and estimation sessions, brainstorming solutions and approaches to business problems.
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to provide high quality technology solutions efficiently, that make a real difference to us and our members.
Responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining our automation & flight finding technologies (Dealbot).
- Generating and deploying professional quality, commercial code that is efficient and effective and solves business problems.
- Actively contributing towards improving our tools, process and platform.
- Supporting other engineering team members, responding to and asking for help.
- Seeking out and creating clarity in technical design.
About you
We’d like you to be a solution oriented developer who enjoys problem-solving and being an active contributor to challenge thinking and approaches.
You’ll be joining a small team working fully remotely, so you’ll need to be comfortable working independently, able to self-organise and be disciplined in your working practices.
Working remotely has unique challenges, so you’ll need to be committed to great communication and open to making suggestions for changes and improvements that make you and the team better every day.
Experience and Requirements
You must have at least 2 years of commercial experience as a developer and be able to demonstrate professional competence with:
- Deep understanding of Python and its ecosystem.
- Experience working on large existing codebases.
- One or more Python web frameworks - eg. FastAPI/Flask/Django
- API testing
- One or more database technologies - SQL or NoSQL
- Containerisation with Docker
- Experience with container orchestration
Although we have team members all over the world, English is the company’s first language, so you must have good conversational and technical spoken and written English language skills.
We’d like it if you also have some of the following:
- Can show you have a passion for code and technology e.g. contributing to open source projects.
- A willingness to learn new things and implement the latest technologies.
- Experience in developing frontend and backend Javascript/Typescript applications.
- An interest in travel.
- Data science using Pandas/Numpy or similar
To apply for this role, submit your details in this application form. No questions asking you to repeat stuff in your CV, promise :-)
Jack’s Flight Club is the perfect fit if:
As part of a thriving startup, you’ll have the chance to make your stamp on how we do things while living our core values:
We trust each member of the team to work responsibly and efficiently remotely
Our team is focused on putting our members first at all levels of collaboration
We are open to discussion at any time, for simple questions or for brainstorming solutions
We make sure to talk about any subject affecting the team or our work, even the difficult subjects, in a constructive and positive way
We aren’t afraid to have a laugh with each other
Creative problem-solving and bootstrapping solutions is our idea of a perfect afternoon ;)
We proactively look for ways to develop, both professionally and personally
We know that anything worth doing is worth doing well, so we set the bar while doing it
Benefits of joining our team:
🌴 Paid time off - Want to reconnect with why you love travel deals or just time to veg out? You’ll get 20+ days of paid leave (plus paid public holidays) to rest and recharge
🤓 Professional development - We work with you to grow your skills and will foot the bill on reading material to help you get there
💻 Tech Bonus - Spruce up your home office with a new desk, fancy external hard drive, or getting that exotic house plant you’ve been eyeing is now possible, on us
😀 Drama-free workplace - Open communication at all levels and no office politics, so you only have to focus on doing what needs doing :)
🥎 Prioritize work/life balance - We know that sometimes life takes place in the 9-5, so we don't mind if you take breaks to run to the bank or adjust your schedule around a softball game
🙌 Help shape our team for the better - You have a chance to contribute in a big way, growing our startup policies so they make sense and grow a better company
🌎 Multicultural workplace - Work with people all over the world, so you'll never know where your teammate will be logging in from next!
👶 Family Leave - Time to adjust to new additions (and learn a new normal) is important, which is why we offer both parents paid time off