Software Engineer 2 - Full Stack

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here.)

About The Role

Hybrid

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join Theseus, our Booking Panel squad, and help shape the final moment of the traveller journey. The Booking Panel is the last page travellers see before heading to a partner — and every tweak, experiment and pixel-perfect improvement has a direct, measurable impact on conversion, revenue and trust.

You’ll play a key role in Book It For Me, an AI-powered experiment exploring a brand-new way to book flights on Skyscanner. It’s full of opportunity to learn fast and build responsibly.

You’ll be part of an experimentation-first squad that values clear specs, thoughtful contracts between systems, and solving ambiguous problems with curiosity and care.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning high-impact frontend experiences: You’ll take ownership of critical, traveller-facing surfaces within the Booking Panel.
• Building with React and TypeScript: You’ll help design and implement elegant, scalable solutions that communicate complex pricing and trust signals with clarity (no small feat) and integrate these with backend Java systems.
• Integrating AI-powered systems: You’ll collaborate closely with AI-driven components, contributing to spec-driven development that clearly defines behaviours, contracts and failure states in complex flows.

Running meaningful experiments: You’ll shape hypotheses, ship tests, measure behavioural outcomes and iterate quickly — always with a sharp focus on conversion, trust and long-term value.

Collaborating across disciplines: You’ll partner with Product, Design, BAR and external stakeholders to balance traveller trust, business impact and technical feasibility.

Raising the frontend bar: You’ll champion performance, accessibility, maintainability and clean architecture — mentoring others and sharing best practices along the way.

Strengthening mission-critical journeys: You’ll help us learn from and improve how we handle high-impact production incidents, keeping one of our most important user journeys resilient and reliable.

About You

• Confident in our core stack: You bring strong experience with TypeScript, React and modern web engineering practices. You care about doing things well.
• Curious about AI-enabled systems: You’re excited by the potential of agentic systems in real customer journeys, and thoughtful about applying them responsibly.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You can navigate complex, evolving problem spaces where uncertainty is part of the job and where smart trade-offs really matter.
• Outcome-oriented: You’re motivated by improving bookings, strengthening brand perception and delivering measurable impact — not just shipping features.
• Trust-driven: You care deeply about traveller trust and understand that long-term credibility beats short-term gains.
• Collaborative by nature: You work seamlessly with stakeholders, and thrive in a highly communicative, supportive team.
• Passionate about the web: You’re energised by frontend craft, performance and accessibility and keen to contribute to an active web engineering community.
  
  

What It's Like Here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.