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Considering a career in the travel industry? Enjoy coming up with new ideas and not afraid to try something new? Alternative Airlines is a young growing company that strives to provide an accessible flight for everyone all over the world. We have a diverse range of e-commerce and digital jobs to offer.
THE ALTERNATIVE AIRLINES TEAM
We pride ourselves on having a flexible, easy-going atmosphere where everyone works hard and feels comfortable at the same time. The Alternative Airlines team are extremely driven and committed to everything they do, from creating new ideas to helping our customers.
THE HEADQUARTERS
We are based in Horley, right next to Gatwick Airport. Our recently renewed office provides an inspiring and peaceful work environment for our growing family. So interested in working with us? We are always looking to expand and offer many e-commerce jobs in the Surrey and West Sussex area.
Our travel jobs areas include Customer Service, Marketing, Web Development and Graphic Design.
Have a look at the latest vacancies available below.
Vacancy Backend Developer
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent, and our ongoing mission is to empower anyone in the world to book a flight easily. Every booking and every customer counts to us!
To help us reach our mission we have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a renewed customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. We enjoyed a period of high growth with yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m to £19.0m from 2016 to 2019.
What is happening now:
Whilst demand for air travel is understandably reduced at the moment, we are extremely excited for the recovery as country borders are opened and travel restrictions are lifted.
Even during this time, whilst our growth may have slowed, we are still growing, and therefore need to expand our team to include a committed, collaborative and capable Backend Developer.
What does our Tech Team look like?
We are continuing to grow and are building a fantastic Tech team of front-end and back-end developers and designers to continually develop and enhance the platform.
Our entrepreneurial and creative culture enables our Tech team to work with many different types of frameworks and tools such as React, Laravel, Docker, Redis and DynamoDB. The role will have real responsibility and decision-making authority to control and develop the platform of Alternativeairlines.com. We don’t offshore, and we don’t take on contractors. You will be a part of our team, and your input is valued. We’ll listen to your ideas, and you’ll get the chance to bring them to life.
What does this role look like?
- The role will be focused on the back-end development of Alternative Airlines’ platform and projects. Projects are wide-ranging and we allow all the developers the flexibility to work on projects that interest them. Projects include API integrations with major payment partners such as PayPal, Affirm and Klarna and with technology partners and direct integrations with airlines.
- Other upcoming projects include developing the platform of Alternative Airlines from an English-only site into a multi-language site attractive to our global customer base and API integrations to broaden the scope of Alternative Airlines offering.
- In addition, this role will be focused on improving the efficiency of the Alternative Airlines’ operations via technology.
Essential Skills
- Experience with PHP and MySQL essential
- Experience with Laravel useful (preferred)
- Comfortable working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with building or consuming web services and APIs
- Understanding and experience using Git
- Entrepreneurial
Why Work with Us
- Competitive salary
- Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- We are multiple small teams working together to reach our mission
- We challenge ourselves daily, and move at pace
- We try new things, make decisions on them quickly
- Modern office with free parking
If you want to help us on our mission and the above job description and our values match your skills and experience then we urge you to apply for this role. We want great, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, motivated people to join our team, and we look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 considerations:
Our office is currently open, but we have a flexible approach for our employees to be able to work from home or to come into the office. We do encourage our staff to come in for some of their working time, and the office is fully COVID-19 compliant.
COVID-19 precautions:
- Remote interview process
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitisation, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
Vacancy Customer Service Executive
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent, and our ongoing mission is to empower anyone in the world to book a flight easily. Every booking and every customer counts to us!
To help us reach our mission we have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a renewed customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. We enjoyed a period of high growth with yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m to £19.0m from 2016 to 2019.
What is happening now:
Whilst demand for air travel is understandably reduced at the moment, we are extremely excited for the recovery as country borders are opened and travel restrictions are lifted.
And even during this time, whilst our growth may have slowed, we are still growing, and therefore need to expand our team to include a committed, collaborative and capable Customer Service executive. Whoever is successful will be welcomed from day one onto our fantastic team.
The Role
- Providing a high level of customer service, by answering calls, email
- Using our in house systems and Amadeus to process change
- Working hard to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction to retain customers
- Working to a rotating shift pattern
Essential Skills
- Confident telephone manner and strong writing skills
- Minimum of 1 years experience within the Travel industry is essential
- Passion for customer service and helping our customers regarding their bookings
- Highly organised, proactive, able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
Why Work with Us
- Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- We are multiple small teams working together to reach our mission
- We challenge ourselves daily, and move at pace
- We try new things, make decisions on them quickly
- Modern office with free parking
If you want to help us on our mission and the above job description and our values match your skills and experience then we urge you to apply for this role. We want great, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, motivated people to join our team, and we look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 considerations:
Our office is currently open, but we have a flexible approach for our employees to be able to work from home or to come into the office. We do encourage our staff to come in for some of their working time, and the office is fully COVID-19 compliant.
COVID-19 precautions:
- Remote interview process
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitisation, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
Vacancy Digital Product Designer
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent, and our ongoing mission is to empower anyone in the world to book a flight easily. Every booking and every customer counts to us!
To help us reach our mission we have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a renewed customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. We enjoyed a period of high growth with yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m to £19.0m from 2016 to 2019.
What is happening now:
Whilst demand for air travel is understandably reduced at the moment, we are extremely excited for the recovery as country borders are opened and travel restrictions are lifted.
And even during this time, whilst our growth may have slowed, we are still growing, and therefore need to expand our team to include an experienced and talented Graphics, Ux & UI designer to design and shape the Alternative Airlines website.
The Role
- You will work as a digital product designer in a cross functional team, having ownership and responsibility for the design of the Alternative Airlines’ site. The ideal candidate will have experience making deliberate design decisions turning user-experience journeys into smooth and intuitive interactions.
- The role will be focused on the design of the Alternative Airlines website. Projects will include designing and implementing new features into the flight search booking process as well as customer-facing landing pages and marketing collateral to promote new features and airlines available through Alternativeairlines.com
- You will have a hands on approach with a keen eye for bringing designs to life with great interfaces. Through effective design, the successful candidate will create excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
Essential Skills
- An eye for good design and what makes a good user experience.
- Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
- Passionate about the detail.
- Creative ideas with problem solving mindset.
- Experience designing mobile friendly designs.
- A passion for excellent user experiences and interactions.
- Open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.
- Experience using tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Figma etc
- A basic understanding of HTML and CSS.
Why Work with Us
- Competitive salary
- Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- We are multiple small teams working together to reach our mission
- We challenge ourselves daily, and move at pace
- We try new things, make decisions on them quickly
- Modern office with free parking
If you want to help us on our mission and the above job description and our values match your skills and experience then we urge you to apply for this role. We want great, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, motivated people to join our team, and we look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 considerations:
Our office is currently open, but we have a flexible approach for our employees to be able to work from home or to come into the office. We do encourage our staff to come in for some of their working time, and the office is fully COVID-19 compliant.
COVID-19 precautions:
- Remote interview process
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitisation, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
Vacancy Finance Executive
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent, and our ongoing mission is to empower anyone in the world to book a flight easily. Every booking and every customer counts to us!
To help us reach our mission we have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a renewed customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. We enjoyed a period of high growth with yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m to £19.0m from 2016 to 2019.
What is happening now:
Whilst demand for air travel is understandably reduced at the moment, we are extremely excited for the recovery as country borders are opened and travel restrictions are lifted.
And even during this time, whilst our growth may have slowed, we are still growing, and therefore need to expand our team to include a committed, collaborative, and capable Finance Executive.
The role will offer you the opportunity to make a real impact and feel proud of your achievements, as well as develop your finance and accountancy experience.
What we’re looking for
- Organised and efficient approach to managing financial data and reports
- Ability to investigate transactional detail and resolve differences
- Strong reconciliation experience
- Pro-active and positive approach to challenges
Essential Skills
- Great communication
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills
- Working knowledge of Sage
Why Work with Us
- Competitive salary
- Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- We are multiple small teams working together to reach our mission
- We challenge ourselves daily, and move at pace
- We try new things, make decisions on them quickly
- Modern office with free parking
If you want to help us on our mission and the above job description and our values match your skills and experience then we urge you to apply for this role. We want great, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, motivated people to join our team, and we look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 considerations:
Our office is currently open, but we have a flexible approach for our employees to be able to work from home or to come into the office. We do encourage our staff to come in for some of their working time, and the office is fully COVID-19 compliant.
COVID-19 precautions:
- Remote interview process
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitisation, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
Vacancy Front-End Developer
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent, and our ongoing mission is to empower anyone in the world to book a flight easily. Every booking and every customer counts to us!
To help us reach our mission we have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a renewed customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. We enjoyed a period of high growth with yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m to £19.0m from 2016 to 2019.
What is happening now:
Whilst demand for air travel is understandably reduced at the moment, we are extremely excited for the recovery as country borders are opened and travel restrictions are lifted.
And even during this time, whilst our growth may have slowed, we are still growing, and therefore need to expand our team to include a committed, collaborative and capable Front End Developer.
The Role
- These are very exciting times at Alternative Airlines. We are putting together a top notch team of front enders and an exceptional designer to help overhaul the front end of alternativeairlines.com.
- The role will be focused on the front-end development of Alternative Airlines’ platform and projects will include a complete overhaul of the front end of the website. Designing and implementing new features into the flight booking process, creating customer-facing landing pages to promote new features and airlines available through Alternativeairlines.com as well as the management of the existing front-end platform.
- Working collaboratively, and alongside a cross-functional team you will take a user-centred development approach to address complex design problems and work closely with other front end devs and a designer.
- You’ll devise compelling ideas, ideate possibilities and create concepts at different levels of fidelity. You will have a hands on approach with a keen eye for bringing designs to life with great interfaces whilst maintaining the structural integrity and standard of the frontend codebase.
- Through effective implementation, the successful candidate will help create an excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
- We don't offshore, and we don't take on contractors. You will be a part of our team, and your input is valued. We'll listen to your ideas, and you'll get the chance to bring them to life. Have a killer idea on Monday? Great!, let's put it on the site on Tuesday and A/B test it. If our customers love it as much as you do, it stays.
Essential Skills
- You are an expert using Less/Sass, Javascript, Jquery., CSS and HTML
- Being familiar with React would be a bonus!
- Basic understanding of PHP and comfortable working on the front-end code within or alongside it.
- An eye for good design and what makes a great user experience.
- Experience building mobile friendly and responsive designs.
- Experience of e-commerce in travel and airline preferred, but not essential.
- Understanding and experience in version control using for example Git and Git workflows.
- A passion for excellent user experiences and interactions
Why Work with Us
- Competitive salary
- Our people matter, they are what drives our success. Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first
- We understand the importance of having a good work life balance
- We are multiple small teams working together to reach our mission
- We challenge ourselves daily, and move at pace
- We try new things, make decisions on them quickly
- Modern office with free parking
If you want to help us on our mission and the above job description and our values match your skills and experience then we urge you to apply for this role. We want great, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, motivated people to join our team, and we look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 considerations:
Our office is currently open, but we have a flexible approach for our employees to be able to work from home or to come into the office. We do encourage our staff to come in for some of their working time, and the office is fully COVID-19 compliant.
COVID-19 precautions:
- Remote interview process
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitisation, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place
