I would like to register my interest to join Pitchup’s Engineering Team!
Job Description
Pitchup.com is the market leading online booking site for campsites and caravan parks, with over 6,000 sites available in 70 countries, including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
More Brits go camping and caravanning than holiday in Spain and Greece combined, and the market is booming as Brits switch to domestic holidays. But there’s even more potential elsewhere - with 49% of the annual 1.2bn camping and caravanning nights spent in the USA for example - so we're rapidly expanding further afield.
A Financial Times Long-term Growth Champion 2026, Pitchup.com receives up to 585,000 visits and 9,173 bookings per day and since launch, has helped 17m holidaymakers find and book their perfect outdoor escape. The company is profitable and was founded in 2009 by former lastminute.com staff with a background in the holiday park sector.
We started Pitchup.com to make it a doddle to book a campsite, caravan park or glamping site. We wanted to help not just with somewhere to stay, but with local bike info, walking routes, pubs and nearby attractions - everything you need to book a terrific break. We love what we do: we camp, we caravan, we travel, and we’re passionate about making it as easy as possible for people to holiday in the outdoors, being awarded the Platinum Trusted Service Award by Feefo (for achieving a customer rating of at least 4.5 out of 5) for 6 years in a row.
Now we are building our team for further expansion and are looking for the very best in their field. If you’re hands-on, able to problem-solve, and you want to work with a friendly and flexible team, browse our current openings and join us in making Pitchup.com an international success!
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Visit our Feefo page to read what our customers think of us
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Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome everyone and are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. We believe diversity enriches our team, our clients and our customer base. We celebrate differences and treat everyone with respect. We do not discriminate at any stage of an individual’s journey with us and provide equal opportunities for all regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and beliefs, marital status, pregnancy and social mobility. We do not tolerate bullying, harassment, abuse or discrimination in any form, and any evidence of this is dealt with swiftly and in line with our policy.
We are growing our Frontend Engineering team and have several opportunities available !
Our Senior Front End Engineers /Staff Front End Engineers help us modernise and build on our approach to front-end development. We’re using Nuxt.js for our newer projects, and we’d like to explore techniques like BFFs and micro-frontends to maximise our ability to deliver UX changes quickly, responding to feedback from our users and trying out new ideas with a fast feedback loop. We’re looking for someone with experience, opinions and ideas who can accelerate our teams and help us build best-in-class web front-ends that are a joy to use.
We’re the leading website for outdoor holidays, making it a doddle to book camping, glamping and caravan sites all over the world, with over 5,300 to choose from.
As a Front-End Engineer at Pitchup, you’ll be responsible for…
- Adding features to our current customer and campsite-focussed site using Vue.js, aiming to delivering code into production deployment in your first week
- Working with team members and Product Owner to suggest, design and develop changes to UI and UX
- Suggesting and implement changes to the front-end architecture of our sites, adding meaningful input into design documents, discussion and plans
- Playing an important role in the improvement of development practices
Must haves
- Able to demonstrate at least 3 - 5+ years of experience as a Front end developer, ideally within a scaling business.
- Demonstrable proficiency in Typescript, Vue.js, HTML5 and CSS3.
- An appreciation of the challenges regarding building adaptive and responsive websites.
- You care about code quality and are familiar with testing front-end code using various frameworks (e.g. Jasmine, Mocha, Chai, etc.).
- Have a good understanding of workflow and tooling (such as Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman, Yarn etc.) in relation to front-end development.
- You are able to solve problems in a structured way.
- You are able to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues.
- Team player, self-motivated, able to plan and prioritise effectively.
- Experience of working as part of an Agile development team.
It would be great if you…
- Have relevant knowledge of the OTA sector
- Are up-to-speed with modern front-end development and have an appreciation for the pros and cons of techniques like BFF or micro-frontends.
- Have experience of working with both internal and third-party APIs.
- Degree in a related discipline.
Our stack comprises:
- Kubernetes
- Python/Django/Celery
- Vue.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Solr
- Memcached
- Nginx
- Varnish
- Cloudflare
- GitLab
Salary: Senior Engineer: £75k to £82k per annum depending on experience
Staff Engineer: £90k - £105k depending on experience
Our engineers get
- Work-from-home office equipment allowance
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees)
- Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection - for peace of mind
- Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets
- Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
- Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
More about Pitchup
Pitchup.com receives 33m annual visits and up to 7,500 bookings per day, with total transaction value 50% up compared to 2022 (a record-breaking year). So far £260m worth of holidays have been booked through us and we’ve helped 9m holidaymakers make their great escape. This year we launched our new mobile website, updating the look and feel and increasing conversion, with the desktop version soon to follow. The company is profitable and was founded in 2009 by former lastminute.com staff with a background in the holiday park sector.
You will join a nimble team of 70 based in 10 countries, all working from home, as we are a 100% remote business.
Our site has been featured in leading global media titles, such as BBC News, New York Times, Le Figaro, and more, and has been translated into 17 languages. We’re members of the Financial Times' FT1000 fastest growing companies in Europe and recently were awarded the Platinum Trusted Service Award by Feefo, for achieving a customer rating of at least 4.5 out of 5 for 3 years in a row.
Some of our press coverage
UK:
- https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/uk-camping-campsites-august-bank-holiday-2022-availability-pitch-prices-1804816
- https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/67423068/camping-trade-world-issue-11/43
- https://www.farminglife.com/country-and-farming/international-womens-day-women-playing-key-role-in-growth-of-agritourism-study-finds-4055326
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/storm-clouds-on-the-horizon-for-temporary-campsites-mg7nz5cv6
IT:
- https://vincenzochierchia.blog.ilsole24ore.com/2022/01/18/estate-2022-pitchup-turismo-glamping-gonfie-vele/
- https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/tende-da-campeggio-facili-da-montare-da-portare-in-vacanza
- https://www.ttgitalia.com/stories/ultime_notizie/182214_outdoor_la_piattaforma_pitchup_triplica_le_prenotazioni_nel_2022/
US:
- https://medium.com/authority-magazine/dan-yates-of-pitchup-the-future-of-travel-in-the-post-covid-world-949495433861
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/camp-rental-utah-california-yellowstone/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/travel/love-or-leave-winter-on-the-cheap.html
ES:
- https://www.elmundo.es/viajes/hoteles/2022/06/23/62b2c84ffdddffd5758b45ef.html
- https://www.europapress.es/turismo/nacional/noticia-sector-camping-espana-preve-2023-cifras-record-reservas-pitchup-20230215125405.html
FR:
- https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/ces-commercants-contraints-aux-promos-pour-rassurer-les-vacanciers-20220808
- https://www.camping-car.com/nos-actus/27057-laissez-vous-tenter-par-une-escapade-en-van