Frontend Developer (Chatbot)

Chiasso, Switzerland

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink".

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description

As Frontend Developer at lastminute.com, you will work in our IT Services team and directly impact the lives of a global population of travellers. You will be involved in building, developing our chatbot to support an ever growing number of customers. From the first day with us, you’ll experience working in a company with a “growing-sharing culture” with a lot of opportunities to improve existing products, bring new ideas to life.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strong focus on developing, implementing and maintaining our chatbot solutions and all conversational flows.
  • Implementing a continuous improvement process defining, documenting and enforcing the system standards.
  • Managing incidents and problems finding root causes and implementing remediation actions.
  • Collaborate daily with the business PO to improve the customer chatbot experience.

Skills and Experience Essential

  • Software development and troubleshooting background.
  • Excellent knowledge of Javascript language within the NodeJS environment.
  • Integration development via web API and response management
  • Complex conversational flows of knowledge.
  • Knowledge of the basic terminology in the field of Natural Language Processing.
  • At least 3 years of experience.

Qualifications

Abilities/qualities 

  • Ability to work both independently and in a team (teamwork and cooperation).
  • Our work language is English, so it is paramount to be fluent; both written and spoken.
  • Problem Solving and Analytical Skills.
  • Adaptability and stress management.
  • Strong communication skills.

We have offices in 12 countries while headquartered in Switzerland and so we are looking for someone available for the support of the Chiasso office but available to make short and sporadic trips abroad.

Additional Information

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
  • Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave
  • Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will found dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: APIs Chatbots JavaScript NLP Node.js

Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours Flex vacation Parental leave Salary bonus Startup environment Team events

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Europe
Country: Switzerland
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Category: Engineering Jobs

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