Senior Frontend Engineer with PHP Experience (UK or DE)

Hours: Full-time

Salary: 65K - 75K / 77K - 88K

Location: Remote (within the UK or Germany only)

Contract: Permanent

About TravelLocal

TravelLocal is transforming the way people explore the world. We connect travellers with tailor-made adventures crafted by handpicked locally-owned tour operators in nearly 100 destinations. By championing the buy local movement were making travel fairer more sustainable and deeply rewardingfor travellers local communities and the planet.

Since our journey began weve helped over 50000 customers from 90 countries experience the magic of local expertise crafting unforgettable trips and reshaping the travel industry along the way.

Join our vibrant remote-friendly team with a footprint in Bristol and Berlin. Were a group of innovators travellers and changemakers dedicated to building a better world through travel. If this mission resonates with you lets talk.

Tasks

Who you are and what youll do

As a Senior Frontend Engineer with Full-Stack experience youll play a key role in improving the user experience for our local tour operatorsour supply-side partners in a two-sided marketplace. While your primary focus will be on frontend development your ability to contribute to backend work is a strong plus. Youll collaborate closely with Design Product and Engineering to build high-quality maintainable and user-friendly interfaces that help our partners manage bookings payments and communications enabling them to efficiently deliver tailor-made travel experiences at scale. Youll be part of a small product team with a culture built on autonomy shared ownership flexibility and open communication.

Heres how youll have an impact:

• Help unlock a more modern and performant platform that empowers our local partners to work more efficiently and with less friction.
• Own the frontend development within a PHP/Symfony-based stack.
• Build and refine foundational frontend structures to enable scalable interface development.
• Shape the design-to-engineering workflow in collaboration with Product Designer to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Work closely with Product Design Product Management and Backend Engineers to deliver cohesive product-facing features.
• Maintain code quality with thorough code reviews automated tests and best practice implementation.
• Document thoughtfully to support knowledge sharing and team alignment.

How our tech environment looks like:

Youll be instrumental in helping us modernise an essential part of our platform elevating it from a legacy tech to a more modular consistent and performant frontend experience.

Current state:

• Frontend built with Twig (Symfonys templating system) jQuery plain JavaScript and ad hoc CSS (partially Bootstrap partially SASS).
• Backend powered by Symfony (PHP) running on AWS.
• Robust CI/CD pipelines integrated with AWS.

Where were heading:

• Responsive accessible components based on modern web standards.
• Modern workflow using Figma prototypes and a component library for consistency and reusability.
• Consistent snap-together CSS/component framework.
• Lightweight JavaScript using libraries where useful.
• Tech stack with shallow learning curve.

Requirements

What youll bring

• 7 years of professional software development experience with at least 5 years focused on frontend development.
• Strong hands-on frontend skills including semantic HTML modern CSS and plain JavaScriptcomfortable building responsive user-friendly UIs.
• Working knowledge of PHP (preferably with Twig templates and a PHP framework like Symfony or Laravel)able to understand and open to contributing to backend and APIs.
• Familiarity with or openness to Bootstrap 5 and/or other CSS frameworks.
• Exposure to tools like Figma (especially Dev Mode) and Storybook or a strong interest in learning them.
• A user-centred mindsetyoure excited to partner with Product and Design to shape great user experiences not just implement them.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a history of partnering closely with product design and engineering peers.
• Curiosity and a growth mindsetwilling to stretch beyond your current skillset explore new tools and contribute where with or openness to using AI tools as part of the modern development workflow.
• Experience with or openness to using AI tools as part of the modern development workflow.

Benefits

What we offer

Empowered culture:

• A collaborative environment built on trust and ownership.
• Opportunities to actively shape product outcomes through the Product Operating Model.

Flexibility:

• Work fully remotely from within the UK or Germany.
• Temporarily work remotely within Europe after your probation period.
• Option to use modern offices in Berlin and Bristol.

Learning and growth:

• A generous annual allowance for professional development wellbeing and travel with our partners.
• Mentorship opportunities and a culture of continuous improvement.

Work-Life balance:

• Flexible working hours.
• 26 vacation days per year increasing with tenure plus public holidays.

Team events:

• Two all-company off-sites per year with travel and accommodation included.

Interview process

• Application and CV review
• Screening interview
• Cross-functional collaboration interview
• Take-home technical exercise
• Technical deep dive interview
• Culture fit interview
• Offer!

How to apply

If youre excited about the opportunity to build meaningful experiences for our local tour operators wed love to hear from you. Even if you dont meet every single requirement we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective and career path might be exactly what were looking for.

Please include your CV and a link to your LinkedIn profile.

Feel free to include a short note about why youre interested in the role and how your experience aligns with what were looking for.

We aim to respond to all applications within two weeks.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.